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Try these pretty stitched ornaments for your tree, with a set of six patterns in The World of Cross Sittching magazine issue 196. Whether you're a total beginner or if you're more experienced, you'll love these!
This blackwork pattern is worked entirely with very dark brown floss. Two plys are used on the outlining and one ply is worked on the patterns.
In 2020 I joined a stitching group on Facebook called Peppermint Purple. It was created by a designer in UK named Clare. She has an online shop with the same name where you can buy kits and/or patterns created by her. This is a SAL (stitchalong) in which she shared a part of the design each Wednesday throughout the year. Each stitcher chose fabric and floss colors and border choices.
Highest position in Explore: 473 on Sunday, July 26, 2009
This is one of my projects from a hand embroidery course. Coloured Blackwork might sound strange, but it just means using blackwork stitches, a particular style of stitching used a lot in Elizabethan times, named because they were stitched in black, but using them with coloured threads. I had to choose a suitable design, and as I love the the images of the Bayeux Tapestry, I decided to use one of those. The skill is to choose the right stitch to enhance the design. I was pleased with the result. I'm not sure who is the subject of the design, I ought to look it up.
Detail on my own method to prevent thread length from getting all tangled up. The rest of the class was delighted with the idea and adopted it at once (teacher included). Just roll up the thread around a little piece of paper, and secure with a pin. No tangle up.
I was staring at Racaire's photo of the Seymour cuffs again today, and I noticed two more flaws in the online charted pattern in addition to the problem of crosses v. diamonds--the S-border is more regular in size and the flowers have a double-square instead of a diagonal line for the approach toward the centre.
I have decided to forgo re-embroidering my version yet again, as I'd have to unpick an awful lot of my work to get it to be like the original at this point, but I've worked up what I believe is a corrected version of the pattern here.
My wife did many pieces of embroidery, this was the last thing she was working on when she was in St Catherine's Hospice. It was incomplete when she died so our daughter finished it. It has lain in a drawer for twenty years but my youngest grand-daughter got it out the other day and my son said it ought to be framed. I collected it from the framer this week.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the
Memento Mori group today at the suggestion of ruthlesscrab.
all brett's tattoos are by me (he was one of the first people who let me tattoo them). filling some gaps, so we can give his a half sleeve, and join onto his chest-piece