Click here for Regal Autumn Instructions Part G After the layered stitch last week, this one is pretty straightforward. But come to think of it, this could be a layered stitch as well, if you choose to make it so! Rice stitches are lovely stitches that can be upright rice stitches, cross stitches as here, […]
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This year I was honored to be asked to create a design for the San Bernadino California chapter of ANG (American Needlepoint Guild). Each year a designer is asked to design a project in memory of Nina Goerres, an important member of the chapter who left a lasting legacy after her passing. The Nina design
Click here for Regal Autumn Part F Instructions I have to make a confession – what I stitched for this part was not what I had designed. The diagram looks the same, but I stitched it differently. In the diagrams I’ll show you what it should have been, and what I actually did. I intended
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Decades ago I went to a stitching festival where someone was demonstrating a trolley needle like this one. I was promptly hooked! At that time I was just barely getting into counted canvas work, mostly cross stitching, and had never heard of laying tools, didn’t know what they were used for, didn’t know I needed
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Click here for Regal Autumn Instructions Part E Are you surprised? If you’ve stitched any of the previous stitch alongs, you already know that waffle stitches are my favorite. So how could I possibly not have them in this project? One thing I really like about waffle stitches is the look when stitched with an
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Click here for Regal Autumn Instructions Part D I love the look of this spicy red! After last week’s steps I wasn’t sure about the colors, but now I’m liking it a lot better. The Hungarian stitches finish out the space formed by the sprat’s heads and pavilion diamonds. I used 4 strands of floss
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Click here for Regal Autumn Instructions Part C I hope you’re ready for the next steps in Regal Autumn. This week we’re adding pavilion diamonds, a satin stitch pattern, to the giant sprat’s heads. I used 4 strands of floss, and anchored with a loop start. If you need help with loop starts, you can
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Just a heads up that registration will be closing on October 31 for Mostly Amadeus and Angles. I need the extra time for ordering supplies, since all of the suppliers are back up, operating on limited resources and personnel, and having trouble getting their supplies in. I thought I’d also answer a few questions I’ve
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Click here for Regal Autumn Instructions Part B I’m having fun with this and hope you are too! For the next part I added really really big sprat’s heads around the center motif. I like the yellow rayon pearl, makes it shine and kind of looks like a sun motif. Of course, today we aren’t
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Click here for Regal Autumn thread list I thought I’d back track just a little, since some of you have let me know you were having trouble finding the thread list for Regal Autumn. I want to make sure everyone who is stitching along gets off on the right foot, so I’m posting the thread
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