I have been working solely on this project (Dame Nature Du Printemps). I bought the kit with 32 count linen.
Category Archives: Embroidery
Dame Nature Du Printemps Cross Stitch
Filed under Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery
Introduction to Jacobean Crewel Work is Finished
I finally finished my RSN crewel work piece. My pomegranate is poor, but I am happy with the rest of it. Given how much I love knitting, I thought I would enjoy working with wool, but I didn’t enjoy the process. I like how it looks, but my yarn (a dodgy batch?) was a bit scraggly.
The course itself was fabulous; great videos that you can watch over and over again. The kit is great and contains everything you need (except a hoop and scissors).
I am contemplating the black work class, but the puffin doesn’t really appeal to me. However, it’s about the learning rather than the end product.
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Machine Embroidery – Blackwork
My plan is to cover a wooden box with embroidery – something like this one. Because I don’t know how well this is going to go, I am doing my first attempt with machine embroidery (the above took 35 minutes).
I am using a design from Embroidery Library. I am stitching on linen using sewing machine thread and a cutaway medium weight stabiliser.
Filed under Blackwork, Digitizing, Embroidery, Machine Embroidery
New Project Bag
I am determined to turn my stitched pieces into something useful – rather than framing them. Hence the needle book and now a project bag.
The cross stitch is cinnamon stars by Plum Street Samplers. I quilted around the cross stitch, lined the bag with mushroom fabric and added a zip.
This bag is enormous 56cm by 50cm, which means my largest Q Snap should fit.
Filed under Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Quilting, Sewing
Needle Book
I turned my mattress ticking surface embroidery piece into a needle book (no more putting my needles into random bits of fabric or paper)
I put a piece of wool felt inside for the needles.
Filed under Embroidery, Sewing
Zipper Bag
It’s school holidays here, which means no students for a couple of weeks, so I have set my embroidery machine up on my desk.
The design is from Pixie Willow Patterns. The instructions were good and it was easy to put together (it did take me a couple of hours).
My corners aren’t very crisp and I wish I had done the stitching down of the background in black, but I am sure I will make another one and I will do that then.
Filed under Applique, Digitizing, Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Machine Embroidery
Cinnamon Stars is Finished
I finished my Cinnamon Stars cross stitch.
The design is from Plum Street Samplers, and I stitched it on 32 count linen (it’s a mystery colour – I bought it from a craft fair), two threads over two threads, using all of the called for colours (a combination of weeks dye works and gentle arts).
I think I am going to make it into a project bag.
Filed under Canvas Work, Cross Stitch, Embroidery
Record, Map and Capture – Jordan Cunliffe
My embroidery teacher brought this book to class, and clearly, I had to find a copy. This is like the intersection of two of my great loves; stitching and maths. Not to mention story telling with stitching and maths.
Here’s a bit of a book description …
This stylish and fascinating book from up-and-coming textile art star Jordan Cunliffe shows how raw data, maps and personal experience can be distilled into textile art, producing mesmerising works with deep meaning, whether obvious or hidden, and concentrating on the smaller, quieter moments that make up our lives.
Jordan explores the use of stitched data to tell stories, pinpoint special places on maps, convey secret messages, and record personal detail, for example daily walks or nightly sleep patterns. Her finished work is beautifully precise, including a long strip of fabric containing a stitch for every day of her life, a reimagination of a favourite childhood book in unreadable code, and pleasing beaded representations of secretly important documents.
Almost any aspect of your life can be represented in graph or map form, and here are many practical ways to achieve this, whether it’s recording the colours of flowers on a favourite path to create your own unique palette, or encoding your most private thoughts in beaded morse code. This visually stunning book explores a new way of working and will help you explore a fresh new angle in your embroidery and textile work.
Illustrated with a wealth of examples of the author’s own work as well as pieces from other data focused artists from around the world, Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art proves beyond all doubt that data can be beautiful, and can inspire stunning works of stitched art.
I have so many ideas for my memory/special things project. I can incorporate special pieces of fabric, use evenweave fabric (my preferred choice) maybe even put in a secret code.
Filed under Book Review, Canvas Work, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Inspiration
Surface Embroidery
This is my current class project. I am doing various stitches on Mattress ticking (using the lines on the ticking). I am going to turn this into a needle book (because currently my needles are stored in random bits of fabric and even paper).
As you can see, my design is symmetrical.
Starting from the centre, I have done chain stitch, blanket stitch with running stitch and colonial knots, tête de boeuf (gold on the left, pale pink on the right), cretan stitch. And the two outer gold ladders will be a raised bar stitch.
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New Class Project
Now that my Gingerbread House is finished, I needed a new project for class. It has to be something easy that doesn’t require all of my paraphernalia (magnifying glass, stand, etc.). So I ordered this cushion from Ehrman, it is Blooming Roses Charcoal by David Merry. I am just doing tent stitch.
There are a lot of colours in similar shades, so I might be getting it wrong, but I am just going to push on.
Filed under Canvas Work, Embroidery