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March 11, 2025 · 4:43 pm

Project Update

February sock (I know it’s March) and progress on the Language of Love embroidery

I have been working on my February sock. My left twist has improved, but it is still a slow process. The yarn is lovely (it’s from here). We are now watching The Wheel of Time season two.

I have also made some stitching progress. I have run out of the light green silk that I am using for the Ivy ‘veins’, so I have started on the Ivy leaves, which are just straight stitches using all seven strands of the silk (and trying to make them fluffy).

My silk has arrived for my two poems (January and February)

February Poem

So I need to get back onto them, so I have four stitching projects with deadlines (not terribly hard deadlines)

  • January Poem
  • February Poem
  • Name tag for stitching class (this is an in-person class here)
  • Language of Love

I am still waiting for my March supplies to arrive, and I haven’t yet decided on a poem.

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March 4, 2025 · 4:59 pm

Using my Cricut to print an embroidery design on fabric

I used my Cricut (Maker 3) to print (in washable marker) an embroidery pattern onto fabric.

I had the pattern as a pdf.

I used Inkscape to trace it and remove the background – I am a beginner with Inkscape. I am googling every time I try to do something.

Then I uploaded it to design space, and selected pen.

It worked really well – definitely something I will do again (maybe with a finer pen?)

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December 19, 2022 · 2:44 pm

Samplers of Seduction – A Brief Dictionary of Stitches

Samplers of Seduction – Edition 1

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,

Items in the box and my progress

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.

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August 2, 2022 · 8:37 pm

Hand Embroidery 2

Hand Sampler

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

Transferring the pattern

This one is the looped stitches, I’m currently working on chain stitch.

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July 14, 2022 · 3:53 pm

Hand Embroidery

Hand Embroidery Sampler

A number of years ago (it’s a bit embarrassing to remember how many) I subscribed to Craftsy for a year (before it became Bluprint and then Craftsy again). As part of my subscription, I got to keep certain classes forever, and one of the classes I chose to keep was Design it Stitch it Hand Embroidery. I finally decided to try it.

My base fabric is calico and I transferred the design using a window and a pigma micron pen, which I also bought years ago, when Juanita’s was an art store and not a bar. I am using DMC cotton floss, and I just picked 6 colours from my stash.

I am quite keen to learn some stitches and then create a piece, with different sections in different stitches, but nothing too formal or designed – like a doodle but in stitches.

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