I’ve had a request for the threads I’m using for the September SAL. Or I guess it should be Third Quarter SAL at this point, since it’s no longer September. Anyway, I usually pull a lot of threads when I start stitching a project. I may or may not use all of them, or I
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Well, it’s been a minute since the first post. I was traveling and teaching, and visiting family, so my focus was pulled elsewhere. But I’m back home and raring to go! For the first stitches in this stitch along I’m back to one of my favorite stitches, the waffle stitch. Waffle stitches are so versatile
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As promised, another stitch along to close out the year! For this one I’ve already designed it so I know where I’m going, but I’ll reveal only one stitch at a time so you can be surprised! I’ve based my color palette on Caron Collection 238 Glowing Embers, and pulled a Watercolours and a Waterlilies
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Well, it’s been a minute since my last post, so let’s catch up: I taught at the American Needlepoint Guild National Seminar in Denver, immediately followed by the Greater Pacific Region Regional Seminar in Medford, OR. I was gone for about 2 weeks. I stressed over the packing, not of my clothes, but of my
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Thanks for stitching along with me! My Patchwork Garden is finished, and I think you can see why I named it My Patchwork Garden! Here’s the link for the complete instructions: My Patchwork Garden complete instructions The instructions include all of the stitches and diagrams, plus a front and back cover. The back cover lists
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I had hoped to have the Stitch Along finished more than a week ago, but life intervened. But, we’re in the home stretch! What’s a garden without roses? The focal point of the remaining spaces are spider web roses. I think they look great in the overdyed thread! A large stitch like this works up
We’re returning to the twisting stars area to include some background stitches, a trellis stitch. This diagonal stitch is fairly easy to compensate, just take a shorter diagonal stitch. You can find the instructions here: Stitch Along Part 20 I think stitching this with the overdyed thread looks pretty sweet! It gets more of the
One last touch and the corners are finished! I added small triangle eyelets along the top and bottom edges, showing just a bit of pink in these corners to balance the other corners. After I had stitched the triangle eyelets, I decided the corners needed just a little bit more, so I added back stitch
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Some of you know that I don’t like yellow. And yet, here I’m adding more yellow! I thought this would be a nice balance to the other corners, and reflect some of the yellow in the center. A sheaf stitch nicely frames the round Rhodes, but it does make the shape of the space more
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More green, this time shiny! The remaining corners begin with round Rhodes stitches, using the #8 metallic braid. Of course you can use a different thread if you want! But I was ready for a little shine. We call this stitch “round Rhodes” but it really isn’t round because of the grid nature of the
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