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These are the two underarm gusset motifs.

 

Links to Patterns: Gillyflower and Pomegranate

 

Info: Warwick Shirt Diary

 

Blackwork Info: Blackwork

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Black silk thread, 32 count linen. This is the underneath, but I prefer this side. Made from a square using a DMC pattern.

it's all hand stitched and it took me a week to finish it!

 

blogged: jade-of-kamakura.blogspot.com/

freehand embroidered in black cotton on natural linen. measures about 2.5 inches tall by 1.5 inches wide.

Blackwork is Hard

Tattoo on Erica Knowles by Denise de la Cerda. Done at hand of Glory Tattoo in Brooklyn. Design based on an image engraved into a silver box owned by the wearer's grandmother.

Erratically blogged about at the smallest forest

 

and there's a basic tutorial for blackwork embroidery on card at from hell to breakfast

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...

I completed this today--October 3, 2011.

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!)

My own design, using a blackwork pattern and lots and lots of beads!

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