So this is all you can see for "Sewing with Mama!", a Candamar kit, designed by Sandy Lynam Clough:
House guests this week so I didn't get much stitching done. And what little I did get done, I found, after four lengths of embroidery, was the wrong color so along came the "frog"!
So this is all you can see for "Sewing with Mama!", a Candamar kit, designed by Sandy Lynam Clough:
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Well, I didn't pick even one of the projects awaiting me that I described in my last post. Instead, I explored my stash and found this little piece: "Tea by the Sea" by Sandra Murray. A study in satin stitch... If it wasn't so hot here, I'd be done with it by now! But it drives me nuts since the silk mori it is stitched with catches on my rough hands (I had a fungal infection in college which still persists on my fingers in hot weather and they tend to "peel" in summer). My plan was to get used to stitching with silk again before I tackled that big, pricey sampler I bought and kitted out at Needle in a Haystack but the issues with the silk may have put me off for a while. rifestitch wrote on Jul 22, '11 That is really pretty!!! Gorgeous colors and such interesting patterns! Sorry the silk is snag-rific. Is that the same silk you have in the sampler? A different brand might be a lot easier to deal with (my preferred brands are Gloriana, Thread Gatherer & HDF - don't like NPI and sometimes Dinky Dyes, which I seem to shred). Comment deleted at the request of the author.
thatyankstitches wrote on Jul 23, '11 rifestitch said That is really pretty!!! Gorgeous colors and such interesting patterns! Sorry the silk is snag-rific. Is that the same silk you have in the sampler? A different brand might be a lot easier to deal with (my preferred brands are Gloriana, Thread Gatherer & HDF - don't like NPI and sometimes Dinky Dyes, which I seem to shred). I THINK it's NPI I have for the sampler --- I'd have to look to be certain. I've stitched with Dinky Dyes before and didn't have this problem --- pretty sure it's my hands... "Bargello Surprise". It's supposed to be perfectly round but I lost my way about halfway through so it's more squished than I would like. Anyway, stitched with DMC FLoss (946, 972, 310 and 4124) as well as Kreinik gold cord (doubled but it still could have covered better).
This one was called "Lightening Strike" and was stitched with three shades of wool: DMC 7768, DMC 7387 and Paragon 46. It looks a little "plain" but I think when it is finished and edged with cording, it will perk up a bit! This one was called "Diagonal Wave" and I stitched it with Stranded by the Sea's Ocean Deep (#203) and DMC 964. Was afraid I'd run out of the Ocean Deep but it was one of the ONLY Stranded by the Sea threads I had two of! Luckily, i didn't have to resort to the second bobbin!. The third, and last bonus, called Bargello Surprise, is in the works...and except for the metallic ribbon called for (I substituted Kreinik Cable instead), I had ALL the threads used in the model. Quelle surprise! LOL rifestitch wrote on Aug 21, '11 Nice!! You've been on a roll with these!
...and catching up with Bargello! These are the August 2011 installments in Bargello club --- meant to be inserts in cards but again, probably won't happen. As usual, I shopped my floss stash and neither of these uses the recommended threads: the green and red one is stitched with red (7666) Appleton wool, Stranded By the Sea overdyed called "Long Leaf Kelp" and Silk mori solids (4033, 4037 and 4034), while the gold one is made from three different DMC "metallics" (5284, E146 and 5282, a bobbinated "gold" cotton floss (identity unknown, possibky DMC 3046 if the number on the bobbin means anything - but I don't bobbinate and it's not my handwriting!), and a GAST overdyed "Cherry Wine". "On the Beach"... Given the weather this summer, that is where I would have liked to be but... It came out more like a British "shingle" beach than an Floridian white sand beach but that's OK. Any beach will do! rifestitch wrote on Aug 19, '11 Veryyyy pretty - and actually reminds me of the summers we spent camping up on Lake Huron in Ontario :)
"Purrfect", design by Marilyn Robertson, kit by Design Works, completed August 13, 2011: rifestitch wrote on Aug 13, '11 Very nice - and quick! That was a lot of backstitching!
thatyankstitches wrote on Aug 13, '11, edited on Aug 14, '11 Yeah - the stars were horrid! And I see a stray cat hair on the fabric (my Dominic sat on my lap for the last bit of backstitch and he sheds a LOT!). It's called "Frog Pile" , designer Royce B McClure, kit produced by Design Works, stitched on 14 ct Aida with the floss provided (except of course, they ran out of black for the back-stitching! Thank goodness DMC black matches, even if no other color on their code list quite matches!. Aptly named as frogs visited on a regular basis --- I think I may have ripped out as much as I stitched! Husband's question, upon seeing the completed piece, was "What's next?" AAACK! He wants me to do that very pricey needlepoint canvas he found at Needle in a Haystack back in April! That means a floss toss is in my future... rifestitch wrote on Jul 12, '11 WooHoo!!!! It might have been a pain, but it's SO CUTE!!! Well done pushing through!! Okay, I'm with him - can't wait to see what's next :)
All the cross-stitch on "Purrfect" is complete. Only black backstitching and some French knots to do now... since I decided to leave off the border and the name/date wedding sampler bit! Then I can move on to August BJP *AND* the five bargello pieces I have waiting for the Janet Perry 2011 Bargello CLub (HOW did I let them sneak up on me like that?) rifestitch wrote on Aug 12, '11 That was quick! Can't wait to see their faces appear with the bs :) Sneaky bargellos - gotta keep an eye on those other projects All The Time... :)
ksteyskal wrote on Aug 26, '11 Very fun! I look forward to seeing it finished. "Purrfect" didn't get my full attention this week, thanks to GIrls' Night Out and volunteering at the fair but I did get in a couple of colors on the boy cat: rifestitch wrote on Aug 5, '11 Great progress nonetheless :) Are the white stars stitched in white? I hate doing white-on-white...
thatyankstitches wrote on Aug 5, '11 Yes...the white stars are in white ... And I'm with you! I hate stitching white on white! |
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