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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".
Erratically blogged about at the smallest forest
and there's a basic tutorial for blackwork embroidery on card at from hell to breakfast
I finished the outlining a few days ago. Kept hoping I'd get a better photo, but early winter in Ohio is a gloomy thing and there hasn't been much good light. This is the first section of 5 total that will be in this piece.
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.
This blackwork piece took me on and off approx 5 months to stitch.
Pattern was by: Jill Cater Nixon.
I absolutely loved doing this piece.
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.
These are the two underarm gusset motifs.
Links to Patterns: Gillyflower and Pomegranate
Info: Warwick Shirt Diary
Blackwork Info: Blackwork
Black silk thread, 32 count linen. This is the underneath, but I prefer this side. Made from a square using a DMC pattern.
My attempt at stitching the second page of fill-in patterns from Lesley Wilkins' Beginner's Guide to Blackwork.
Blogged at: backstitch.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/blackwork-fill-in-sam...