My kit from Jardin Privé has arrived – it was very quick. I am super keen to get started, there is a sheep and a chook!
I do have to finish my Gingerbread House, and my Cinnamon Stars first.
Category Archives: Embroidery
New workstand – Lowery
I have splurged and bought myself a new embroidery workstand – it’s a Lowery in stainless steel. I had considered them in the past, but thought they were too expensive and I made do with different table stands (but none of those were ideal). This is great. It’s so sturdy, my clip on magnifier doesn’t make it sag and I can sit on the couch and watch TV while stitching.
I am very happy with my purchase (which I got from JK’s cross stitching supplies – brilliant service). Now I am considering the table clamp for my friday morning stitching class.
Filed under Canvas Work, Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery
Jacobean Crewel Work Embroidery Kit
After having been lost in the system for a while, my embroidery kit from the Royal School of Needlework arrived. It’s beautifully packaged – I have already started work on the pomegranate.
Filed under Embroidery, Inspiration
Stitch Dictionary
I finished my Dictionary Stitches. I particularly like the back-stitched word Sampler.
Now I am going to try to finish my Gingerbread House and my Cinnamon Stars cross stitch before my kit from the Royal School of Needlecraft arrives.
Filed under Embroidery, Inspiration
2022 – A Review
I worked on some big projects this year; Miss P’s blanket and the Cinnamon Stars cross stitch.
I finished
- Halloween Cat – I am thinking about making it into a cushion
- Shorty socks – my sock knitting really fell off because I have been working on Miss P’s blanket
- Project Bag – for all of those socks I am planning on knitting!
- Drawstring Christmas bags – for my friends’ christmas presents
So next year I would like to finish my
- Cinnamon Stars cross stitch
- My covid knitting project (it’s the doll second from the left in the bottom row)
- Miss P’s blanket
- Gingerbread Cross stitch house
- Dictionary of Stitches Sampler
- Miss A’s quilt (not shown)
And then I would like to start my
- Scout shawl – I have a kit
- Knit some socks!
- Start my embroidery keepsake book thing (I have been collecting supplies and special things)
- Royal School of Needlework Jacobean Course – my kit should arrive soon.
I think that’s enough projects planned.
Filed under Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Machine Embroidery, Sewing, Sock Knitting
Samplers of Seduction – A Brief Dictionary of Stitches
My box from Rebecca Devaney of Textile Tours of Paris has arrived – it came very quickly. Unlike my kit from the Royal School of Needlework, which still hasn’t arrived.
I also have the online course, A Brief Dictionary of Stitches,
This is a beautiful kit, with silk threads, linen, hoop, scissors and needles all from European manufacturers.
Rebecca’s teaching style is fabulous. I thought I knew how to hoop my fabric, but no and now (as you can see in the above image), I can get my hoop drum tight.
Filed under Embroidery
New Project Bag
I made a drawstring bag for my sock projects. The design is from Urban Threads. I stabilised it with calico, but I should have used something more sturdy as there is a bit of puckering.
I used instructions from Martha Stewart to make the bag.
Filed under Embroidery, Machine Embroidery, Sock Knitting
Drawstring Bags – Machine Embroidery
I thought I was been cunning by making drawstring bags on my embroidery machine, but it wasn’t as smooth as I expected.
I used a design from Pixie Willow Patterns. The instructions were fabulous – very well written with lots of detail and images. And the design stitched out perfectly. I struggled to get the drawstrings through all of the layers, I did exactly as written in the instructions, but it was still tricky and time consuming. I will make them the old-fashioned way next time, but it was worth a go.
Filed under Embroidery, Machine Embroidery
Cross Stitch – Cinnamon Stars
I have returned to my stitching class; every friday I join some lovely ladies and stitch for three hours. It’s the only time in the week that I get to sit for any length of time.
I have plans to make a cloth, memory book; a page for everything that is special to me. I shall attach all my special trims and fabrics. I have bought a lovely hemp/silk fabric to use as the base.
However, that project is still in the planning and collecting resources stage, so I am working on my Cinnamon Stars cross stitch. I find the process very relaxing, almost meditative (I have to concentrate a bit too much for it to be meditative – all that counting).
Filed under Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery
Hand Embroidery 2
I have finished the first of my samplers, this is the flat stitches.
From top to bottom
- running stitch
- back stitch
- whipped running stitch
- split stitch
- stem stitch
- fern stitch
I have started the next sampler
This one is the looped stitches, I’m currently working on chain stitch.
Filed under Embroidery