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Serinde's Stitching Adventures UPDATE 11 Dec 2019

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:11 am
by Serinde
Thought I'd better set up a new thread for all the things I start, have a chance of finishing in this lifetime and are too "big" for the smalls thread and too small for a thread of their own. Just in case you think I'm sitting around doing nothing. So! Here we go.

This is a piece done for friends' little girl. (Several years late, but hey.) The stitching is probably 6x6inches, on 25ct lugana using Caron threads, some silk, metallic threads, lots of beads.

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Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:43 am
by wendywombat
Good idea to set up this thread! :applesauce:
That is SO Pretty! Perfect for a little girl.

I shall be watching to what other Gems you have in your plans! :D :D :dance:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:40 pm
by rcperryls
:applesauce: :applesauce: I love this! What a beautiful gift! Can't wait to see what else shows up in this thread!

Carole
:dance:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 2:14 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Very pretty! Is that Rose Blush?

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 3:51 pm
by karen4bells
rcperryls wrote: :applesauce: :applesauce: I love this! What a beautiful gift! Can't wait to see what else shows up in this thread!

Carole
:dance:
I absolutely agree!! What a beautiful piece of art!!

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:58 pm
by Serinde
Mabel Figworthy wrote:Very pretty! Is that Rose Blush?
Well spotted, Mabel. :D It was a design from New Stitches (inevitably), but MH didn't design it. Loopy Lou, I think.

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 8:27 pm
by Purple Patsy
Love this piece. So delicate and beautiful.

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 10:39 pm
by Squirrel
Elegant, delicate and such gorgeous muted colours - a work of art most definitely Serinde. :roll: :mexicanwave: :mexicanwave:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:10 pm
by kingfisher68
This really is a wonderful picture. So detailed & finely worked. What a wonderful gift to receive, I am sure it will be treasured for many years :whoop: :applesauce:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:13 pm
by xstitchalanna
That is crazy beautiful! I love the colors! :applesauce:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:22 am
by Serinde
I'm partially finished with "Sugar and Lace" from the Just Cross Stitch 2007 Ornament issue from Victoria Sampler. I'm working it sideways, using Trebizond silk as the thickest thread, which is amazingly slippery (I have a horrible fear I'll need another spool...). The centre medallions were initially very difficult to count -- I really dislike charts that show a single line of chart being two fabric threads... :x I actually put it away for a year, having miscounted and therefore wasted expensive threads. However! Here we are now, and I didn't think it was quite so difficult:

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Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:48 pm
by wendywombat
:shock: Will you look at the intricacy of those centre motifs!!! :shock:

Well done for persisting with this, though and it'll be worth it in the end!

"ça vaut le pein" as they say in France. Roughly translated as 'it's worth the trouble' (or pain) :D

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 2:04 pm
by rcperryls
wendywombat wrote::shock: Will you look at the intricacy of those centre motifs!!! :shock:

Well done for persisting with this, though and it'll be worth it in the end!

"ça vaut le pein" as they say in France. Roughly translated as 'it's worth the trouble' (or pain) :D
I agree completely!! This is beautiful!!!

Carole
:dance:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:14 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Such a classically stylish colour combination, and the centre motifs are very elegant! Hope you manage to subdue those slippery threads :-)

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 8:49 pm
by karen4bells
:applesauce: :applesauce: :applesauce: so pretty!!

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:37 pm
by RosemaryD
Those are both beautiful. Looking forward to seeing what else pops up on this thread!

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:44 pm
by Serinde
ARGGHHH! Wrong colour of soie perlee! Now remedied, but you can imagine what I thought when I realised the two threads next to each other were different colours. :x Also realised that all the central cross stitching is in the slightly darker colour. But you know what? I don't care. It looks just fine.

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Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:26 pm
by Lisa
Very beautiful pieces :wub:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:58 pm
by Squirrel
It looks more than "just fine" Serinde it is beautiful and oh so delicate. An amazing piece of stitching. :whoop: :whoop: :whoop:

Re: Serindë's Stitching Adventures

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 12:16 am
by fccs
Squirrel wrote:It looks more than "just fine" Serinde it is beautiful and oh so delicate. An amazing piece of stitching. :whoop: :whoop: :whoop:
Yep, Sally's right.