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Here is our advent calendar! Think I will be done by the Dec. 1st? Hope so, wish me luck! (I was about 35 hours in at this point, spanning 2 months of stitching when the kids were asleep. Phew!)
I've never seen the two techniques combined before, and it seemed like a good thing to try....and finally, now the uni year's over, I can get back to sewing just for the fun of it!
Each of the squares have a 'darker square in the middle'. It's a cross between wrought-iron gates and black lace....oh, so Gothic! :D
Here is my piece for Ponyinarope for the PQ Music Swap. A bit of, (ahem...) suggestive blackwork embroidery, and some lyrics from the Radiohead song "Nude".
Found this piece that I started and nearly finished 1 1/2 years ago. It was a nice "get back to stitching after horrible arm pain" project.
Erratically blogged about at the smallest forest
and there's a basic tutorial for blackwork embroidery on card at from hell to breakfast
A test stitch for Infinity Stitches on Facebook. It was easy for a beginner - me, and fun to stich.
I glued cork fabric to the back and, as soon as that is dry, it will be hung on the sunroom wall.
6x6 weavette squares embroidered on with backstitch, generally called blackwork. mine of course is in white. This is only partially assembled.
freehand embroidered in black cotton on natural linen. measures about 2.5 inches tall by 1.5 inches wide.