tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9086616420390545962024-02-01T20:29:16.996-08:00Stitch Lab - cleaning out the hidey holesI have to finish all my wips?? by when??Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-23745595943493133132015-03-30T07:47:00.001-07:002015-03-30T07:47:37.825-07:00Drawn Thread: North Country SamplerAn early March finish was this old wip of mine: The Drawn Thread's North Country Sampler.<br />
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Stitched on 35 ct linen using most of the listed silks with the addition of 2 Waterlilies silks. <br />
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1 in the bottom band with the fish. I did not want a solid colored water background. <br />
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1 in the lettering.<br />
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The rest of the colors may not be in the same position as charted, sometimes due to chart error or my own misreading of the chart symbols. This has been in process since 2006 - a date which I dared to stitch in because I firmly believed this was a small enough project that I could surely maintain enough momentum to finish....Suuuuuuuuurrrrrrrre.<br />
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What year is it now? 2015? Hm. I am not changing the date because in the course of the future 300 years, 9 years isn't so much, right? Right. I knew you would understand.<br />
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I know you also understand that I had to fight off the urge to change the date or find some other way to incorporate the actual finishing year. I am getting better in mastering my OCD tendencies. That only took decades. <br />
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I will have the same problem with the date when I again work on The Drawn Thread's Gameboard with all the little houses on it. I stitched in the date I expected to finish on that one, too. That date had a couple of 2s in it, no 1s. Ah, optimism. <br />
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Why is it that we always think we will finish faster than we actually do? <br />
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Only the virtual stitching I do in my head as I look at a pattern, envisioning the threads, cloth, pattern layout and stitches I might use, works up faster than my fingers. Every time!<br />
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Meanwhile I have taken out an old Just Nan wip which I hope I can feature as a finish for you next time.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-91717576833925390732015-02-11T06:51:00.000-08:002015-02-11T06:55:04.898-08:00LaDDa: Watchful EyeOn the way home from an appointment, I visited Yankee Cross Stitch up in North Hampton, NH. I wanted to walk among the models, see finished projects. Get inspired.<br />
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In a back corner cubby was a LaDDa design. An old one. One I had in my stash...the model looked nothing like the chart cover. The chart cover was dark & murky. It made me wonder why I bought it...not much wondering: I must have loved the bones of the design.<br />
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Yankee's rendition was brighter, clearer, happier. That was the version I went home to create (with a few changes both intentional and unintentional - the unintentional being the miscounts that I can kept to avoid redoing).<br />
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I can never get the cloth color right in my photos: the cloth is yellower than pictured. I used a mystery stash cloth of 36 count. I used the chart listed GAST except that I ramped up the red. I also used beads for the isolated stitches in the border and the few around the heart.<br />
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The chart original was done on BOAF Meadowlark which is a great fabric which I have in my stash but it was not the look I was seeking in this piece.<br />
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There you have it. My first start of the year and finished within a month.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-1404955240673103482015-02-10T10:47:00.001-08:002015-02-11T06:25:52.103-08:00Bent Creek Reindeer SamplerThis came kitted in a small vinyl pouch. I remember picking it up at a Cross Stitch Festival in the late 1990s. I miss those festivals.<br />
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Anyway, I probably started it soon after. It was during one of my Over 1 phases. It did not hold my attention or patience long enough to finish it at that time...but finally TA DA!<br />
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The cloth color is a greeny-brownish Khaki colored 28 ct. not the grayish neutral pictured here. It came with a little cardinal button which I didn't use here due to scale but I no doubt I will use it on something else.<br />
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I should have put something beside this for scale because it is tiny: something like 1 3/4 inches by 2 3/4.<br />
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It is done! Time to move on to something else.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-66802253977650568142015-02-10T10:33:00.000-08:002015-02-10T10:41:49.441-08:002015 Goals: not unlike 2013...2014 was a lost year<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>20<strike>13</strike>...15 Goals</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><u>More Wip killing!</u></b><br /><b>1.</b> 12/12: 12 wip finishes in 12 months (or more)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Doing good thus far. I believe I have 2. One was a decade old Bent Creek: Reindeer Sampler (over 1) finished in January? or Dec 2014 (close enough).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">The other was a new start in January: LaDDa's Watchful Eye. Finished in February. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><b>2.</b> Keep new starts to a minimum: finish any new starts within the same year (except for any SALs)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">The LaDDa: started in Jan, finished in Feb.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">I started the Heartstrings: Sparrow sampler in Dec...so I cheated. The SAL for this one just started but I never finish with the pack and of course, this one is very big.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><b>3.</b> Get reacquaintedwith my wips: <strike>stitch on at least 1 wip by every designer I have already started. </strike> <span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">Back in 2013 I learned that this doesn't work because I have way too many wips. Now I hope to find a way to keep a current handful worked on a regular basis towards completions. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">The really good news is that by now the drive to work the wips is so much stronger than wanting to start anything...though I have started more these past 6 months than I did in the year prior (3 pieces). The good news is that I have about a half dozen finishes in the last 6 months. I know, bad me, I have not blogged about them (yet). </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br /><br /><b><u>Specific Goals:</u></b><br /><b>1. </b> Tony Minieri Stars for a New Millenium: <strike>stay on track</strike>. <span style="color: red;">HAHAHAHAHAHAHA um, sure, the track is gone. Maybe I can at least pick this up and finish 1 more square this year. That would put me on a new track to finish this sometime in 2021.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b> Pieces of 8: only <strike>5</strike> <span style="color: red;">3</span> octagons left: finish this.<br /><b>3.</b> <strike>Blackbird Designs: Xmas Garden: finish this.</strike> <span style="color: red;">Not finished but not a priority. </span><br /><b>4.</b> <strike>SB:Sheep, my NY tradition: start & finish a small sheep piece</strike>. <span style="color: red;">I worked NY so I didn't have time for the tradition but I did take out the old BC Reindeer and finished that that week. 1 old wip finished NY week could easily become a new tradition.</span><br /><b>5.</b> Permission to start 1 really good sized piece during 2015 (then try to not start anymore big pieces). <span style="color: red;">Sparrow started last Dec fits this bill. Unfortunately there is a huge blackwork piece screaming for a start.</span></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Organization:</span></u></b><br />
<strike><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1.</b> Put my stash room back together - the annual organization & clean up.</span></strike><br />
<strike><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b> Round up my NP canvases. <span style="font-size: large;">Catalog them.</span></span></strike><br />
<strike><span style="font-size: large;"><b>3.</b> Organize my frame stash.</span></strike><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;">At this point I will be happy if I could put together all the wips whose threads have scattered to places unknown. There is nothing like wanting to settle in with a piece only to discover some necessary component missing. AAAAARGH.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eileen Bennett's Mini Historical Samplers which was a chart which included 4 or 5 small samplers giving a taste of assorted sampler periods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a time in my project starting life inwhich I hated small pieces. I would combine smaller pieces into larger ones. I have since trended towards small pieces - for they are much easier to frame with ready made frames, alas I have so very many starts from older times to finish up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This old experiment was also a silk test. It included Hand Dyed Fibers before HDF founded their website shopping. The silks were as experimental in nature as was my compilation and motif mixing of EB's wonderful patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This project was at least 10 years in the stitching, if not older but it is finished!</span> <span style="font-size: large;">One more down, too many more to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finished! Finally, after all these years. I left in the old expected <span style="font-size: large;">to have fini<span style="font-size: large;">shed date of 2002.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a hundred years<span style="font-size: large;"> when someone might be wondering wh<span style="font-size: large;">at <span style="font-size: large;">the scraps of th<span style="font-size: large;">read might <span style="font-size: large;">mean on </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>this old cloth, 11 years will mean little.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This <span style="font-size: large;">is a small finish, but i<span style="font-size: large;">t is a finish. M<span style="font-size: large;">y finish for <span style="font-size: large;">February.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">An ornament released in 2000, started in 2000, fini<span style="font-size: large;">shed in 2013 be<span style="font-size: large;">cause I couldn't deal with over 1 on 40 in a full cross.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this, <span style="font-size: large;">much tinier finish than Trinity, is also finally fini<span style="font-size: large;">shed.</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Tiny </span>as it is<span style="font-size: large;">, it still counts as <span style="font-size: large;">my March finish. Hopefully, not my only March finish <span style="font-size: large;">at least <span style="font-size: large;">it will keep me 3 for 3 on my 12 <span style="font-size: large;">finishe<span style="font-size: large;">s for <span style="font-size: large;">12 month goal.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-27853989520657533022013-02-16T08:16:00.000-08:002013-02-16T08:22:17.923-08:00Teresa Wentzler & Eileen Bennett<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><u>Teresa Wentzler: Above the Clouds</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> TW made a recent ann<span style="font-size: large;">ouncement <span style="font-size: large;">about her <span style="font-size: large;">old pattern p<span style="font-size: large;">ubli<span style="font-size: large;">sher allo<span style="font-size: large;">wing her to make her older patterns available di<span style="font-size: large;">gitally via <span style="font-size: large;">Patterns On<span style="font-size: large;">Line. In some cases, she is converting her older hand drawn charts into computer <span style="font-size: large;">genera<span style="font-size: large;">ted symbols and u<span style="font-size: large;">pdat<span style="font-size: large;">ing <span style="font-size: large;">previously confusing back<span style="font-size: large;">s<span style="font-size: large;">titch <span style="font-size: large;">line<span style="font-size: large;"> chart<span style="font-size: large;">s. Major hap<span style="font-size: large;">py dancing about that announcement. I<span style="font-size: large;">t ma<span style="font-size: large;">de me go through my TW wips. It made me want to stitch them!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">AB<span style="font-size: large;">C is what <span style="font-size: large;">I p<span style="font-size: large;">icked up. When</span> </span></span></span>I put this down - however long ago I do not remember - there was barely one wing mostly done. I am learning to focus because I stayed with this project for most of January. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have about 1/4 of the pattern left to go: it's all the rocks and the part of the tail. It was finally the rocks which drove me to another project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't believe I got that much done on this! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course it might stay this way for years, now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finally got rocked out and looked for something different in my WIP stash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span>ileen Bennett Trinity Sampler</u></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another long napping wip</span> <span style="font-size: large;">was the Trinity. It was started with an SAL back in 2006. I know that because I stitched in the date at the top. I must have had I had high hopes of finishing it. It is not that big. But it is with 2 strands of cotton in most places. The shredding of the floss is getting to me. It was not as noticeable with the TW piece because I work with shorter lengths due to the blending and confetti and do not frog - who is going to notice 1 mispla<span style="font-size: large;">ced </span>little conf<span style="font-size: large;">etti stitch<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">?</span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibr3HAqaBUBqyLn-3bpQwJgTEdH_sJxlwJJFRhZijhiYfdY9_8jdVW_Fxbm7PONEU_kFdxfaC4BLqGdp3A1IZoRytq4Oxh5SHa6jL5U1DLQnv7B_qrTGOkaaU3GPcHfLrrNh0MjbLvIkw/s1600/EB+Trinity+wip+feb2013+760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibr3HAqaBUBqyLn-3bpQwJgTEdH_sJxlwJJFRhZijhiYfdY9_8jdVW_Fxbm7PONEU_kFdxfaC4BLqGdp3A1IZoRytq4Oxh5SHa6jL5U1DLQnv7B_qrTGOkaaU3GPcHfLrrNh0MjbLvIkw/s640/EB+Trinity+wip+feb2013+760.jpg" width="331" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">A <span style="font-size: large;">band sampler is something else. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>The lengths are not that much longer with this piece but I have had to do more frogging. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The problem is not the pattern, but the color notations<span style="font-size: large;"> for the pattern.</span></span></span> I hate DMC floss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pattern symbols differ from the color numbers in the text notes which are also different from the picture of the sampler which is why there was frogging. It makes me wish I had stuck with the SAL. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I have gotten a few more bands finished. There are not too many to go. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span>I hope to finish this this month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have not decided what to do with the original 2006 date. Leave it and add 2013? I am leaning that way.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-81337553411869280732013-01-16T09:13:00.001-08:002013-01-16T12:56:48.961-08:00Shepherd's Bush & Ann Bowers (sort of, mostly)<h4>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Shepherd's Bush H<span style="font-size: x-large;">ome (<span style="font-size: x-large;">sheep)</span></span></span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">Without the 'Home'. This was my New Y<span style="font-size: large;">ea<span style="font-size: large;">r's Day <span style="font-size: large;">stitching.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shepherd's Bush Home</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I did not backstitch in the Home above the sheep. My house does not look like that. I added some minor textured stitching and some beads in place of single flower stitches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It<span style="font-size: large;">'s the photo which is cro<span style="font-size: large;">oked, not the stitching.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ann Bowers (an a<span style="font-size: x-large;">daptation)</span></span></span></span></span></span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sort of<span style="font-size: large;">. <span style="font-size: large;">The kit I ordered way way back when was for 35 cou<span style="font-size: large;">nt. I received 40c<span style="font-size: large;">t but I started it anyway. I stopped after I <span style="font-size: large;">g<span style="font-size: large;">ot a couple of inches down. It was just too intense, too tight for my tastes. I p<span style="font-size: large;">ut it away f<span style="font-size: large;">or 10 year<span style="font-size: large;">s<span style="font-size: large;"> (more or less). 10 year<span style="font-size: large;">s napping time for m<span style="font-size: large;">y <span style="font-size: large;">WIPS</span></span> seems to be average for me.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I picked it back up when reading about all the other Ann Bowers stitchers starting across the web this year. I <span style="font-size: large;">changed the cloth to 35 ct <span style="font-size: large;">of the same color from the same manufacturer</span>, restarted and really got into it. Close up pics will foll<span style="font-size: large;">ow as I get further along.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ann Bowers, many changes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The basic template is from <span style="font-size: large;">The Exemplarery's pattern of Ann Bowers<span style="font-size: large;">, the motif shapes and general order<span style="font-size: large;"> of the bands. A couple of the alphabets <span style="font-size: large;">will be, too (with the scand<span style="font-size: large;">al<span style="font-size: large;">ous unper<span style="font-size: large;">io<span style="font-size: large;">d </span></span>addition of the histori<span style="font-size: large;">cally missing letters J and U.) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know the <span style="font-size: large;">historical reasons for the omissions<span style="font-size: large;">. <span style="font-size: large;">I am not stitching this to the period inwhich it was originally made. There are and will be other changes: <span style="font-size: large;">the a<span style="font-size: large;">lphabet used in the <span style="font-size: large;">verses, the verses them<span style="font-size: large;">selves. The verse I added in place of one of the alphabets is from a later period than the original sampler s<span style="font-size: large;">ti<span style="font-size: large;">tcher's<span style="font-size: large;"> life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do not stitch reproductions. <span style="font-size: large;">I fall in love <span style="font-size: large;">with <span style="font-size: large;">enough eleme<span style="font-size: large;">nts in <span style="font-size: large;">old patterns<span style="font-size: large;"> to make it worthwhile for me to purchase them<span style="font-size: large;"> then<span style="font-size: large;"> I do what I want with the materials<span style="font-size: large;"> when I stitch them. Sometimes I <span style="font-size: large;">am c<span style="font-size: large;">lose to the o<span style="font-size: large;">rig<span style="font-size: large;">i<span style="font-size: large;">nal patterns. In<span style="font-size: large;"> this case, not<span style="font-size: large;"> as much, esp<span style="font-size: large;">ecially</span> on the inner alpha<span style="font-size: large;">bets and <span style="font-size: large;">spac<span style="font-size: large;">ing of moti<span style="font-size: large;">fs</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this particu<span style="font-size: large;">lar case<span style="font-size: large;">, <span style="font-size: large;"> I widened the piece by a couple of <span style="font-size: large;">stitches in<span style="font-size: large;">order to <span style="font-size: large;">make the corners work more to my <span style="font-size: large;">tastes. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span> I<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>shorte<span style="font-size: large;">ned the piece b<span style="font-size: large;">y a few stitches in order to ma<span style="font-size: large;">ke the bottom corners more to my taste<span style="font-size: large;">. It does n<span style="font-size: large;">ot matter to the fit of the interior<span style="font-size: large;"> elements <span style="font-size: large;">because</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> I <span style="font-size: large;">am not using all of the alphabets in the or<span style="font-size: large;">iginal<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">, nor t<span style="font-size: large;">he verses as they are currently<span style="font-size: large;"> charted. </span></span></span>I would have liked to have<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> used the alphabet used in the original <span style="font-size: large;">charted verses but I was even more eager to get the verse I used actual<span style="font-size: large;">ly stitched before I <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">changed my mind.<span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I am <span style="font-size: large;">still </span>thinking about how to use eleme<span style="font-size: large;">nts <span style="font-size: large;">from the original verses but this is w<span style="font-size: large;">here I<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> re<span style="font-size: large;">st my <span style="font-size: large;">prog<span style="font-size: large;">ress<span style="font-size: large;"> and move on to somet<span style="font-size: large;">hing completely different. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think a TW wip is u<span style="font-size: large;">p fo<span style="font-size: large;">r some work </span>ne<span style="font-size: large;">xt.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">TW has gotten permission to go digital with many of her older patterns! Time to celebrate by actually stitching on some of those patterns which I have already started<span style="font-size: large;">. I have many to choose from. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I used to be a wanton starting slut. My ways have changed. I have fo<span style="font-size: large;">und a different path! </span> I still don't finish much but I am focusing on working my <span style="font-size: large;">already starteds. Eventually<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>there will be a period of <span style="font-size: large;">finishings and much rejoi<span style="font-size: large;">cing will be in the land!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> (Well, not the land of vendors as <span style="font-size: large;">I have not been buying anything <span style="font-size: large;">near what I used to<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> for quite a while now.</span>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-8907511464740791582012-12-26T06:51:00.006-08:002012-12-26T06:51:46.822-08:002013 Goals<span style="font-size: large;">Getting ready for the New Year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have learned to not post specific goals because they act as Anti-Goals: Things Which Never Get Touched Again. I am hoping that since I list so few that this will be the year I break that curse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't keep up with Wipocalypse last year but it did get me focused onto WIP thinking and working which I continued for most of the year so it was a success for me even though I did not have monthly stitching. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>2013 Goals</b></span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><u>More Wip killing!</u></b><br /><b>1.</b> 12/12: 12 wip finishes in 12 months (or more: see how many I can finish & to use that number as a goal to exceed in 2014)<br /><b>2.</b> Keep new starts to a minimum: finish any new starts within the same year (except for any SALs)<br /><b>3.</b> Get reacquaintedwith my wips: stitch on at least 1 wip by every designer I have already started.<br /><br /><b><u>Specific Goals:</u></b><br /><b>1. </b> Tony Minieri Stars for a New Millenium: stay on track.<br /><b>2.</b> Pieces of 8: only 5 octagons left: finish this.<br /><b>3.</b> Blackbird Designs: Xmas Garden: finish this.<br /><b>4.</b> SB:Sheep, my NY tradition: start & finish a small sheep piece.<br /><b>5.</b> Permission to start 1 really good sized piece during 2013 (then try to not start anymore big pieces).</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Organization:</span></u></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1.</b> Put my stash room back together - the annual organization & clean up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2.</b> Round up my NP canvases. <span style="font-size: large;">Catalog them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3.</b> Organize my frame stash.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-6172551390875580982012-12-20T09:21:00.000-08:002012-12-25T11:03:40.214-08:00Oct Nov Dec Catch up: By The Bay, Periwinkle Promises<span style="font-size: large;">I had not realized it has been so long since I last posted. I can't say that I have been stitching up a storm but I did manage a few small pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">By The Bay</span> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the By The <span style="font-size: large;">Bay m<span style="font-size: large;">ural type pieces. I have seen a lot of wallpaper murals in old New England houses. I love them! I have had the 2 largest triptyk BTB pieces kitted for a long time. I haven't started them because they are huge!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't resist starting t<span style="font-size: large;">he smaller <span style="font-size: large;">Fall sal version of a mural. I even had a small piece of a coffee dyed blu<span style="font-size: large;">e-ish green <span style="font-size: large;">cloth that evokes the<span style="font-size: large;"> background wall paper colo<span style="font-size: large;">r<span style="font-size: large;"> (which looks more gray than blue green in the pic).</span> Sad<span style="font-size: large;">ly I don't have a big enough piece of it for the bigger pieces - which <span style="font-size: large;">maybe on<span style="font-size: large;">e of th<span style="font-size: large;">e other re<span style="font-size: large;">asons, <span style="font-size: large;">other than size, that I haven't started it: I am not totally happ<span style="font-size: large;">y with the cloth I ha<span style="font-size: large;">ve.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">H<span style="font-size: large;">ere is the little Fall sal. I <span style="font-size: large;">really appre<span style="font-size: large;">ciate how the finished piece fit so easily into an off the shelf, easy and inexpensive to obtain<span style="font-size: large;">, frame.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>I added some textural stitche<span style="font-size: large;">d, changed the overdye (leaves) <span style="font-size: large;">to one I had on ha<span style="font-size: large;">nd<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another <span style="font-size: large;">small piece. I love the Per<span style="font-size: large;">iwi<span style="font-size: large;">nkle Promises Accents. I don't love them as pillows, though. I have <span style="font-size: large;">assorted little pillows completed - stitching completed<span style="font-size: large;">, yes<span style="font-size: large;">. As pillows, no. I have the finished pieces waiting in a chest for<span style="font-size: large;"> an idea of what to do with them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">To solve th<span style="font-size: large;">at problem with future <span style="font-size: large;">unp<span style="font-size: large;">illowed accents, I started <span style="font-size: large;">e<span style="font-size: large;">xpanding the patt<span style="font-size: large;">er<span style="font-size: large;">ns so that they fit into a 5 by 7 frame. It usually doesn't take much work to do that. Just some math<span style="font-size: large;"> and some rep<span style="font-size: large;">e<span style="font-size: large;">tition of bands.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">My first <span style="font-size: large;">attempt at doing <span style="font-size: large;">this was in 2010. <span style="font-size: large;">I s<span style="font-size: large;">titched on this while marathon viewing the British TV show: Kingdom<span style="font-size: large;"> star<span style="font-size: large;">ring Stephen Fry.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was based on the <b>Snowflower Accent, from Series 2.</b> <span style="font-size: large;">The cloth in the kit was not <span style="font-size: large;">big enough but <span style="font-size: large;">it was not difficult to find a s<span style="font-size: large;">crap of <span style="font-size: large;">cloth in my stash. The other jo<span style="font-size: large;">y of <span style="font-size: large;">these is that the kit<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>AVAS silks work well on 32 ct<span style="font-size: large;">. I may have added more beads. I <span style="font-size: large;">love beads<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The latest attempt was during a marathon streaming of Grey'<span style="font-size: large;">s Anatomy<span style="font-size: large;">. The actual stitching took<span style="font-size: large;"> a couple of seasons <span style="font-size: large;">of that. I <span style="font-size: large;">knit <span style="font-size: large;">during most of the re<span style="font-size: large;">st<span style="font-size: large;">. This is</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> based o<span style="font-size: large;">n<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Periwinkle Promise</b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>s Series 1, "August<span style="font-size: large;">,"</span></b> </span></span></span></span>with some textural stitches added and I notice<span style="font-size: large;"> no<span style="font-size: large;">w: I forgot some layering stitching on the band of 3 thistles which <span style="font-size: large;">I can add before I frame it. That ba<span style="font-size: large;">nd <span style="font-size: large;">must <span style="font-size: large;">have been during some of the better episodes<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">A side <span style="font-size: large;">comment: Kin<span style="font-size: large;">gdom was the better written of the 2 series. Too bad it had so few seasons.</span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not<span style="font-size: large;"> much</span> to show for the couple of months<span style="font-size: large;">. <span style="font-size: large;">I started<span style="font-size: large;"> a<span style="font-size: large;">n old Danish Handcraft guild kit with 30 ct linen with danish flower thread. I thought for a moment about <span style="font-size: large;">changing out cloth and thread<span style="font-size: large;">s<span style="font-size: large;"> then kicked myself for again<span style="font-size: large;"> making <span style="font-size: large;">complications out of simply rela<span style="font-size: large;">xing. I started it using the kitted in<span style="font-size: large;">gredients and have been the more relaxed because of it. <span style="font-size: large;">I hope <span style="font-size: large;">to have a pic<span style="font-size: large;">ture <span style="font-size: large;">for ne<span style="font-size: large;">xt t<span style="font-size: large;">ime - w<span style="font-size: large;">hich will hopefully be in the couple of days off that <span style="font-size: large;">I have at Christmas - <span style="font-size: large;">YAY <span style="font-size: large;">for time off I really need it. <span style="font-size: large;">It is a blessing to still have a job but <span style="font-size: large;">the stresses <span style="font-size: large;">that come <span style="font-size: large;">with it are e<span style="font-size: large;">ven worse now. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dealing with those stresses when my brain can't han<span style="font-size: large;">dle cr<span style="font-size: large;">oss s<span style="font-size: large;">titching</span></span></span>, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> I knit on <span style="font-size: large;">my own design of <span style="font-size: large;">a cou<span style="font-size: large;">ch snuggly which is <span style="font-size: large;">the third one I've worked<span style="font-size: large;"> on since I've started knitt<span style="font-size: large;">ing them last year</span></span>. The other 2 are used by f<span style="font-size: large;">amily members to wrap themselves in or under, whil<span style="font-size: large;">e watching <span style="font-size: large;">TV or reading; as this one <span style="font-size: large;">and the others to follow it will be. As<span style="font-size: large;">ide from <span style="font-size: large;">a basic border <span style="font-size: large;">and some d<span style="font-size: large;">ivi<span style="font-size: large;">ding bands, each on<span style="font-size: large;">e is different<span style="font-size: large;">:<span style="font-size: large;"> size, patte<span style="font-size: large;">rns, col<span style="font-size: large;">or...errors<span style="font-size: large;">: different errors on each o<span style="font-size: large;">f them.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other than that, I just look<span style="font-size: large;">ed through portions of my pattern <span style="font-size: large;">collection. <span style="font-size: large;">That was <span style="font-size: large;">as relaxing as stitching<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-43108690379105014152012-10-24T08:58:00.002-07:002015-02-16T06:51:35.062-08:00Brightneedle and a Spangler<span style="font-size: large;">Just a couple of things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was pushing myself to finish Ezmeralda's House as I did much more than I originally planned but my interest in continuing with it dropped off. I pretty much wasted a week of (non) stitching trying to push myself to finish, pushing myself to only work on Ez until done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It didn't work. I spent a week not stitching because I just didn't want to work on it for more than 1 needle full of thread. I would have gotten more done on something else had I only given up and moved to something else.</span> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, taking advantage of my sudden love of working on canvas which I really used to hate, I started a test Heaven and Earth Designs' pattern on congress cloth.</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;"> I originally took out my Spangler Train of Dreams, a pattern I love as I love all of Spangler's little dragons. I didn't get much progress, made a major mistake whose situation I worsened by trying to pick it out. It was the too loosely woven 22 count hardanger which was causing that most recent problem. That was also one of reasons for so little progress over so many years. I cut apart the Train cloth. So much for that for now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I still loved the pattern. I loved all the HAED's I have but there is no way they were going to be done on the cloth I thought I was going to use. I needed something stiffer. With encouragement from posters at the Heaven and Earth Designs Message Board at Yuku, I decided to try out a smaller HAED on a canvas. In this case a 24 ct congress cloth I dug out of my deep stash.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The progress doesn't look like much but it was a lot more progress in a few days time than my Train of Dreams on hardanger ever had over more time. I still have to fine tune some stitching techniques on it but I am so loving the continental stitch, 2 ply on 24ct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Congress cloth comes in a small selection of colors, some of them dark so I won't be limited to stark white. It also comes in a 55 inch wide selvage so I won't be limited to small projects. I can order congress cloth just like I did cloth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My short attention span may be ready to wander again now that I know the 'test' worked. I am looking across the room to a Martina Weber stacked against the bookcase. It has been too long since I have had a really deep immersion stitching session. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another project started so long ago, probably not too long after the pattern came out. Working from the top down, I got most of the bedroom done before I put it away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This past week I finished the bedroom and started on everything below it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I first thought about this project I did not want to do this over 1 but I still wanted it to be small scale stitching and since it was Halloween I was leaning towards something funky: thus the tiny uneven cloth 44/48. It has a beautiful dense hand to it. I hope I have some more buried in the stash somewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More work on Wallwin. Making my way across the second band. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That third band area with the snake is going to be nasty. The colors are alternating on all motifs there including that diagonal. There is no neat way to make the trip. The colors will sometimes not alternate. Also the thickness of the snakes waxes and wanes </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fortunately I am not a purist about sampler reproduction because I would not have made it past the first band where I miscounted, making the sampler wider than charted then adapted everything below. The snake band colors will alternate as they end up alternating and I am not going to compare that with what is charted other than to marvel if I just happened to match. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's it until next week. I don't know what projects will be inprogress then. I am still poking through older wips. I would like to finish all of Part 1 of Wallwin before I put her away. I had planned on only doing the kitchen on Ez's House but I'm having enough fun to continue to the porch and her foyer so we'll see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-27441549766667816752012-10-03T07:10:00.004-07:002012-12-25T11:13:44.186-08:00Filet Chilean Sunset<span style="font-size: large;">I forgot to post the adapted Filet color test. This is the HDF Chilean Sunset finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is an amazing color. It seriously changes color depending on the light and distance viewed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The picture is what it looks like from a few feet away. From across the room it looks like a medium rose red. Closer up it is more of a sunset firey orange - red. I am not usually a fan of anything orange but this is an amazing color.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-39662398450669546242012-10-03T07:02:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:57:04.316-08:00Stars for a Millenium<span style="font-size: large;">The Wagon (a Yuku board) is hosting a 2 year SAL on this counted canvas piece. It is intense but it also moves pretty fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That diagonal blue woven step required so many clippings and redoings! I also had to add additional thread plies because too much canvas was showing through. It may be a little too thickly muddled now, but at least the canvas is covered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I were starting this again I would start it on a darker canvas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Intense but fast, so far. I don't want to burn myself out on it so still being in the mood for canvas I hope to pick up either Pieces of 8 for the final 4 blocks or taking on Lahaina again. We shall see which one wins the mood.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-30968310119883175972012-10-03T06:51:00.000-07:002012-10-03T07:02:22.548-07:00Joane Wallwin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhddMzUFOZA0zR5PYVdFIwJ4Yhietfu5s7gekr90pHj23CGc1H1UCeJOeZjSKldE72zH-EZQAm8pWTaTU5lN_wh8T3uFctdkrrLGJCIxvnuCEwbolPWd7X1QKR6TRBCIWyeNVdX0ohcPf4/s1600/SANQ+wallwin+part+1+sept++26+760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhddMzUFOZA0zR5PYVdFIwJ4Yhietfu5s7gekr90pHj23CGc1H1UCeJOeZjSKldE72zH-EZQAm8pWTaTU5lN_wh8T3uFctdkrrLGJCIxvnuCEwbolPWd7X1QKR6TRBCIWyeNVdX0ohcPf4/s320/SANQ+wallwin+part+1+sept++26+760.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">After 10 years of inactivity with very little, a week of work produces a couple of bands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would love to finish Part 1 of the pattern before I put this back to sleep...for less than 10 years, I hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I forgot what count my Oyster cloth was: it is 36/40, very tightly woven. I need to use a slightly sharp needle to get between the threads. I try not to split the stitching threads while doing so but I don't always succeed. The DMC can't tolerate much of that: it is shredding horribly even with short 15 - 18 inch strands. </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-21935294675915979072012-09-19T12:54:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:53:41.638-08:00It finally feels like Autumn.<span style="font-size: large;">The Summer weather continued up until a front blew through overnight. Today was the first day that feels like Autumn to me: overnight is chilly, morning air is crisp, midday is warm, some trees are starting to show color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With that comes a change of mood which affects my stitching focus. I took out some pieces which have not seen progress for a year or more. One will go back to sleep as it just did not hit 'the spot.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">HDF 'Woodland Path' Filet</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finished the small HDF thread test on the woodland pathlike color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still in the mood to stitch with HDF, a mystery unlabeled spool, I hauled out my WIP of this very long Quaker Welcome sampler. I finished a motif, started another then put it down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I started another HDF color test: Chilean Sunset. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The colors were much better than I expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is using another filet lace pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am often inspired and influenced by stitching on other blogs and on assorted stitching message boards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All the talk about the 2012 Just Cross Stitch Christmas issue made me take out my JCS Christmas Ornament sampler. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have neither need nor desire for too many small stitched things. I have no display cases and my book shelves are already overfull so I do not stitch things unless I can make them fit in a frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A long while ago I started this a piece of cloth a Montreal stitcher generously sent me. The New Castle line of linens were just coming out. She sent me a fat quarter of sand New Castle which I had not known existed. I immediately started a sampler with ornaments from the 1997 JCS Christmas Ornament magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since then I have included ornaments from other years. I put them in as I can get them to fit. My optimistic intent was to fill up this cloth then start another and another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since this one has been about 8 or more years in the making to this point, you can appreciate how optimistic that thought is. I have changed some colors, added beads, textural stitches as the whim hits. The sand color does not show up in the above picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am still waiting for my 2012 issue to get to my mailbox.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another reawakened interest from a topic on a message board. I dove into my stash, grateful that at least some of it is still organized. Out came the piece which confirmed that I am in for a change of focus on my stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I hauled out Joane Wallwin which has not seen any work for at least 5 years or longer. The uncertainty of not having all the threads called for is no longer going to hold me back. The strangeness of working over 3 threads on tightly woven Oyster cloth is also not an issue anymore. I don't know why these changed feelings happen but I am very glad for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pattern as printed in SANQ over several issues, charted by Page Dorsey, Sampler Workes, is charted for Au Ver a Soie silks: Soie de Paris and 100/3. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Soie de Paris's numbers are the same codes used for regular AVAS silks which I can match for color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 100/3 silks are an issue. I have no clue if these numbers are equivalent to any other line of thread or yarn. I had some of them in my stash but not all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The designer used a 40/50 count uneven Oyster cloth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know how she tamed some of those threads! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tight twist of the 100/3 makes it too stiff to sit over 3 on my oyster cloth. It arches up too high for my tastes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I used DMC cotton floss instead, eyeballed to the 100/3 color or just chosen to correspond to my interpretation of the color name in the required color family values. In one case, the first band's "light salmon." I changed to a deeper one. The original light color was not showing up on the cloth. The DMC is still a little too thick for crisp blackwork lines but I do not have anything thinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved it when I saw it. I do not love it now. Mostly enjoyed it but now not so much. I still hope to finish it by the end of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I finally got a picture which is a truer representation of the cloth color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Tony Minieri's Stars for a New Millenium</b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">New SAL, a 2 year project with The Wagon (a yuku board) starting in October. It scares yet excites me. I have the pattern, the threads, the canvas and bars. I just need to arrange them and wait for the start. No picture yet: tune in next month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bicknell/Needlepoint Now: Pieces of Eight:</b> Most likely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Blackbird Designs Christmas Garden:</b> Most likely but I will have to set aside days that I make myself work on this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perin Lahaina Breezes</b>: Not likely. I have to change the thread in the outer most border. Satin stitching the 5 or 6 strands of DMC is just fuzzing up too much even with short strands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Martina Egyptian Mandala:</b> No way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lizzie Kate Winter Alphabet:</b> Probably not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Martina Japanese Panels</b>: One more panel hopefully, but I would rather have more progress on Egypt.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-22246709274616821272012-09-08T10:44:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:54:44.396-08:00More Summer Updates<h2>
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Pieces of Eight </span></b></h2>
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">I did not get work done on Pieces of Eight since my last post because I could not put down the Filet Bluework but I did take an updated picture of progress made in June. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I post the finish I hope to include notes about what colors I feel the magazine got wrong when ccompared to the photos and my own work. Not all the colors listed in the directions need to be bought. Based on my study of the photo of the original piece, it had fewer colors with better distribution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finally started making more of my own choices as I progressed. I wished I'd made them sooner to better balance the colors. I love it anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am finally starting to feel like I am getting somewhere. It is funny to me, that while I longed to be done with the inner block sections there was something reassuring about filling them in. I have to pay more attention to the chart now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">New territory to be stitched. I am on to other shapes, other motifs.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">This piece did not take long as I could not stand to put it down. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The colors are still a little off but a little closer than the older picture.</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I enjoyed working on this piece so much I dove into my stash of HDF spools then found another small pattern to start</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A semi mystery thread. It is HDF. It is labeled. It is a Single Stranded Regular silk. The mystery is how I got it because I never ordered SSR a la cart. I suspect it came in a bag of mystery spools from an old carrot option in the shopping menu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />I absolutely love the SSR. I wonder if the new SSR is like this onld one. The coverage on 36 ct is better than 1 ply from the 6 stranded. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I also love this color. It reminds me of leaves starting to change for fall or a forest path. </span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">The color numbers listed on the mini spool are: 5135/5271/3255/3221 which I think is a combination of Kodiak Bear 5135/Jackalope 5271/Luteus Green 3255/Willow Withies 3221</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-83092514928296015182012-08-30T09:26:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:55:13.929-08:00Recovering Some Stitching Mojo<span style="font-size: large;">Long time no blog, I know. Sorry. I just lost my stitching mojo for a while. I am still with the SALs and challenges in spirit: they kept me on track during the winter doledrums. They certainly kept me focused, kept me from starting so many other projects that I would have otherwise. But by June it just became more work than passionate hobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Christmas Garden. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I finally got part of an alphabet in there. The alphabet used was from another Blackbird Designs chart whose name escapes me right now (head/palm moment).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a little bit more done since the picture was taken but not much more. Some of my color placements are not as charted. I wasn't a fan of as much gold as there was charted so I subbed in the green in most of those places with some brown in at least one other place.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bluework Blue, no name design from a Filet Lace book, vol 6. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bluework Blue is the name of the color, a blend of 4 blues from Hand Dyed Fibers, it was a custom forum call. I finally got onto one before the calls were closed up. I am usually too late for most of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is 1 strand silk over 2 threads on Antique White 36 ct linen. The thread color appears lighter than in real life. In real life there are more gray/blue tones. All of it being slightly more to the blue tone than the picture has. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was still a bit of a shock for me when I got them. I guess the attempted facsimile of colors on the HDF forum call had as much of an issue with exact colors as I'm having with my camera. Either way, I still love the color and have plans for more after this piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I was looking for a small piece to test the color out, I found a scrolly design with a peacock in it in the same book that just about screamed to be done with this thread but the pattern was more than twice as big as this one. I wanted something small, working up quicker to act as a test for show 'n tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many designers have recharted old filet lace designs then sold them as individual cross stitch patterns. I saved a lot of money and found a greater selection of patterns by searching out filet lace books. There are even some online at sites like Gutenburg project and other archivist sites. The charts are a bit of a chore sometimes but with a pen marking up the photocopied page that is easily fixed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So until the next time when I can update more work on my Chatelaine Egypt and an almost completed pieces of 8 where I'm on to the last 4 medallions.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-6569476933439225122012-05-12T10:56:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:57:46.935-08:00Blackbird Designs: Christmas Garden<span style="font-size: large;">This is my 2012 BAP challenge about which I have forgotten to send monthly updates to Becky who started this challenge. I am still keen on finishing this piece by the end of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here is April's work. Picture taken at the end of last month's work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It continues to work up slower than I imagined it would. There has been less restitching of misplaced motifs than previous months. If I can get south of that horizontal dividing line with May's work then I will still be on track. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-49329144472154409222012-05-05T08:05:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:50:09.680-08:00WIPocalypse # 5<span style="font-size: large;">This has been another crazy month...actually, this might be the first sane month I have ever had for stitching since I haven't flitted about 20 projects. I didn't start 20 new projects but stayed with 4 already started pieces. The 3 challenges I joined this year have really helped me to focus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First up: Gayle Bicknell's Pieces of Eight. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eight more octagons finished. 1 stalled for changes. Eight more to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought the dark green would work as it is a part of the multi color NN which shows up in a few blocks above it but I finally decided it looks too dark. When I pick it up later in May I will clip out what's there to replace it with a lighter green. From there, I may even be able to zip through the final 8 for another Wipocalypse finish...unless I get to another color decision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thrilled about the progress on this one, too. I had 2 vacation days which I spent mostly stitching. Not the best picture but I was in a hurry as the camera battery was running down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I am finally out of the inner sections (except for a few stitches and beads here and there). I am out on the golden sections with trees, pillars and other scenes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't believe I am seeing progress. I think at one point it was hopeless to think I would ever get anything done on this. Now I dare to think I might get it finished. It gets more beautiful as it progresses. Even family members are beginning to comment on it as it doesn't let look like a blue blob.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to work on something small for the instances where I didn't have much time to haul out a bigger project with a lot of components. I thought this would fit the bill. It didn't really. One evening's work amounted to some over 1 flesh on her arm and shoulder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For some reason, she wasn't the itch I wanted to scratch this month. I think I still wanted to work on Egypt but I just couldn't haul it all out. I looked at some other small projects I had within reach but nothing screamed to me. I switched to knitting some more on another family snuggly afghan slims.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-19044737434445919512012-04-05T06:37:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:48:46.959-08:00Wipocalypse #4 recap<span style="font-size: large;">I have made some posts on my wip work this past month but not all of them. I have been busier stitching than posting which is a good thing in some ways but bad in other ways because the posts help me keep track on what I have been working on - otherwise it all blends together and it feels like I got nothing done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This piece is so slow going, so labor intensive that it doesn't give much of a sense of progress even after you spend hours working on it. I would love to have this more than halfway finished by the end of the year. I hold no illusions about actually finishing it this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> But now, I am changing my mind. I don't have the heart to cut that much cloth off the piece but I will have to. I want the 2 of them stitched then framed separately. I will feel better about it when I find something else to put on the cloth trimmed off.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> </span> I think that was it for older pieces as I was obsessed with the Laura Perin piece - which only qualifies as an old collected pattern which had been in my stash forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In catching up on some of my blog reading on other stitchers I am reminded of some more old WIPS of mine which haven't seen progress for ages but look so wonderful as other stitchers work on theirs. Maybe my old huge Prairie Schooler ABC blocks can come out to play for the next update. It has 4 foot scroll rods. I will need some vacation days, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or maybe just more work on Egyptian. There is always more work to be done on Egyptian.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-71585056569388845282012-04-05T05:47:00.000-07:002015-02-16T06:48:18.133-08:00Laura J. Perin Lilac Collage<span style="font-size: large;">I had such a hard time putting this one down that I barely spent time with anything else. I didn't want to happen what happened with Pieces of 8: I totally lost my momentum for progress on Po8 when I put it down for the challenge pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I did some work for the next Wipocalypse report (a previous post) and hope to do some more. I did very little on Blackbird Christmas which I think I forgot to report last month. I did some time consuming work on the Egyptian Mandala - which can also be applied to Wipocalypse, I suppose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But returning to the Lilac! I can't believe it is finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were several discrepancies between the chart and the cover photo. You have to look at both then decide which way you will go. The good thing about projects like this is that there is a lot of fudge space. I did clip out some areas, including the lilacs for assorted issues. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The chart came with a packet of beads which I did not put on the piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I changed out the entire lilac area to restranded floss instead of all perle. The threads fit together better. I also added some more leafage to balance it out more in its rectangle </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also tried to put the swiss dotted 504 in the back of the lilac but it looked too busy and I hated the ghost threads - which I could have masked in framing but I did not like the green measles look. I tried some light patterning with a single floss thread. I finally decided the lilacs can sit by themselves. I added my initials and the year, lightly at the base of the lilacs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What made this project work from the beginning is that I decided that as long as stray threads did not show through to the front that I didn't care what the back looked like. This was the biggest reason I could work the NP on the lilacs. I refused to put this project down for any other stitching until I slogged through those lilacs. I knew if I ever put them down for long they would never get finished and the project would never be finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It was fun working on this last night but I will put it down to get some progress going on the challenge pieces.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-20527695795130427262012-03-29T06:19:00.002-07:002015-02-16T06:47:23.335-08:00WIPocalypse Stitching with the Peepers<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The weather was unseasonably summer like and the peeper chorus was loud even through closed windows. Here is the progress that the peepers inspired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had hopes of finishing as this is just below the half way point but my small attention span too me back to canvas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I restarted the Laura J. Perin Lilac Collage - this time on the canvas called for in the chart. More on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strangely, it was kind of sad to finish off the old Dragonfly row. I'm thrilled it is finished but I am also a little sad. It has been in the WIP pile for a VERY long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn't alone. I went diving into my old WIPS for some more contenders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cloth is actually a mocha color which my camera never seems to pick up. I don't know anything beyond point and click so it's most likely me not setting something properly in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">At least 1 have 1 bird to show for 10 years "work." This is 32 ct. Mocha Belfast, worked with 2 strands of Anchor. I used the Anchor conversion printed on the chart - which can sometimes be quite funky in pattern contrasts. I went through a thread phase inwhich I was converting everything to Anchor. The results were more vibrant but with not always the best shading results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have since become more lazy and just work with the ever more discreasing quality DMC on projects when I can't afford the high quality relatively inexpensive (for silk) <a href="http://www.hand-dyedfibers.com/oscnuked/index.php" target="_blank">HDF silks</a> on conversions. I still think Anchor is the better, stronger cotton fiber over DMC but it is tougher to find and the conversions can be problematic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is as far as I got on bird 2 because I thought I made a mistake when I couldn't find my place but after I frogged then restitched, I discovered that I had it right the first time just that my brain couldn't figure out where I should have started in again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The gray birds get a little depressing so this wip didn't stay out long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have since taken out my version of Ink Circles Croakworth & an old Lu Fuller kit whose cloth I switched out to a 40 ct. Pictures of those next time.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"> If I can find my Quaker Go Away Banner, I will take pictures of that, too. I was more in the mood to work on that than Croakworth but one Quaker style isn't that much different from any other.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-908661642039054596.post-57950270093470425562012-03-07T06:29:00.000-08:002015-02-16T07:01:19.257-08:00WIPocalypse: Dragonfly Quilt Row A FINISHED!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Granted, it wasn't that large and it shouldn't have taken 10 years (or thereabouts) but it is finished. It could have been finished years ago if I had only kept picking it up but I didn't. I didn't even LIKE working on it at several points. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have loved every minute I have worked on it since picking it up for the WIPocalypse and the 2012 HAEDless stitching challenge. It is done. Scary part is that I'm tempted to now start another row instead of picking up another old piece to finish off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is block 4. The directions recommended putting some pottery shard or something like that in the medallion. In a past medallion on MW's Bluebell mini, I put in a small crystal. I couldn't conveniently find one I liked for this so I just stitched in the attribution information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some pictures of the border.</span></div>
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