"When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been.

But she had wings.”

A little free coloured blackwork ornament for Christmas, available free @ Eglantine Stitchery :)

Blackwork Elfe, Fineline Flügel, Sterne

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Blackwork Animals collection, great for beginners to blackwork.

All patterns are available at www.cottonseason.etsy.com

Strawberry pattern from Jane Bostock Sampler Dated 1598

Digital camera This was worked a few years ago, The dog was added at the last moment.

non traditional blackwork done in muted colours

Ornamentic, Tribal, Blackwork

A blackwork design I doing to put in our hallway which has an African theme

The flower band is from Lesley Wilkins Beginner's Guide to Blackwork and the bee is my own design.

The flower motif is based on this: flickr.com/photos/-bb-/2737416752/.

Blogged about here: backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/blackwork-sampler-upd...

Blogged.

Pattern courtesy of Wild Olive.

Blackwork samples worked in faggot stitch. As shown in the tutorial in next photo, faggot stitch is just back stitch done in steps. These motifs were easy, fun and fast to make with this stich, whereas if I had made them in double-running stitch it would have taken a lot longer and I would probably have lost time trying to figure where I was and fixing mistakes.

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Tendino a blackwork; realizzazione di Laura Serafini

stitched on 28ct jazlyn fabric with DMC threads it was quick to stitch this one.

charts can be found at www.cottonseason.etsy.com

A close-up of the end of my ribbon marker! Made with wooden crow beads and grosgrain ribbon, with hand-sewn edges.

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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!

More test stitching for my blackwork designs.

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MK map sampler finished - blogged here!

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Amazing blackwork chart showing cuts of beef. From Stitchcraft, 1978

Playing with the tonal shading of blackwork. And text, because I love it.

Terrified I've spelt it wrong though. Part of the charm, maybe?

I found the perfect frame for this blackwork/backstitch piece.

Blackwork Biscornu work in progress from this pattern (http://pics.livejournal.com/own_two_hands/pic/00050p1y), which was originally from Better Homes and Gardens. This one is going to be my new pincushion.

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