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top portion of the blackwork/stippling for my second tattoo which will eventually be a full left sleeve.
tattoo: Clark Kent @ Slave to the Needle in Ballard, WA
The final finish of my blackwork Spring Garden bookmark, which was a free design from my first stitch-along, The ES Blackwork "Spring Garden" SAL, which ran on my blog, Eglantine Stitchery, from May 20th to July 1st, 2013.
A full, detailed tutorial for the making of the bookmark - which is hand-sewn, with optional padded insert - is available here!
Shown with Robin McKinley's "Chalice", which is a medium booksize - larger than a paperback, but smaller than a typical hardcover, about the size of a trade paperback :)
Blackwork bauble printed on textured art card, embellished with French knots and beads and matted on gold, red, and a gold card. To sell for charity.
The pattern for the bauble is from Miriam at borduurblog.blogspot.com/
Based on an original sampler as interpreted by Lesley Wilkes in book "Traditional Blackwork Samplers"
Not much I can usefully do with a single panel - going to try doing a few strips and see if I can use them on caps/collars. If anyone can suggest anything useful to do with this piece of work please let me know (whole thing is about 25cm square).
This is my first attempt at blackwork/Holbein Stitch (or "Spanish Stitch" as it was initially known until Katherine of Aragon fell out of favour) and is not reversable as the stitch should be - this is the next thing to try and do.
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.
More bookmarks! For Andrea and Meg, as proclaimed. These ones I made of cloth, which was sort of risky for a bookmark, since it's both less firm and bulkier than paper. They both worked well, though the aida cloth was a lot less bulky than felt. I probably wouldn't opt to use felt again for this, but I just like embroidering on it! They were both really fun to design.
Secret trick: both of them have a light piece of plastic milk carton sewn inside the middle of them, to keep them stiff enough to lay in a book.
Sometimes, I'm very smart.
I thought that Andrea might appreciate the Victorian type of thing that I'd done before, but once I started brainstorming I accidentally ended up a few centuries further back into blackwork. Time travel is distracting. Plus, once I'd found the owl, I was done for. I set it up between motifs from one of the blackwork patterns from here, which I needed to embellish a little to make it fit, but it wasn't too bad. I also made a rookie mistake of embroidering the whole motif in doubled thread, instead of following that some is supposed to be lighter and some is supposed to be heavier (like on the owl). At the end, I kinda made up a font to embroider her name in, heck yeah.
For Meg's I couldn't resist this adorable little book cartoon, are you even kidding me. I Googled around for some random banner art and that was that. (HI LITTLE BOOK!) Also I stitched it all up with the baseball stitch in the back.
Also started to get the hang of adding a tassel here, though was not quite there yet.
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Anita Goodesign travel blackwork on washed linen towel. Wanna know something? I didn't use stabiliser. Shhhh! Shoulda coulda perhaps but actually it's not much more wrinkled than the rest of the towel. I actually wanted to use it so it needs to be washable and absorbent, and I didn't have any washaway stabiliser handy.