Mabel's Hardanger

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:13 pm

lovely. This is such a pretty group of designs.

Carole

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 2:22 pm

I really like that group of twisted bars -- they fit so snugly into the space and look really crisp.

karen4bells · Post by **karen4bells** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:52 pm

very elegant!!

jocellogirl · Post by **jocellogirl** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:49 pm

of course!!

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:48 pm

it Mabel, elegant yet simple - another wonderful design to add to the collection.

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 10:02 am

Another winner!

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:32 pm

Not much stitching recently because of stinking head cold *sniffle* but I did finally get round to making a stack of finished smalls into cards

Mostly Happy Hour and Snippets:

8

Round Dozens:

and 11 Song of the Weather ones:

jocellogirl · Post by **jocellogirl** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:21 pm

My Mabel, you have been busy!!

Anyone would be delighted to receive one of your beautiful cards

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:57 pm

Beautiful!

Carole

Squirrel · Post by **Squirrel** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:14 pm

What a fabulous collection Mabel. You are well set up for birthdays etc for some time. All so beautiful, colourful and gorgeous.

mags · Post by **mags** » Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:25 pm

Beautiful cards Mabel

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:48 am

A Delicious collection!

A very profitable use of your time....especially with a 'stinking head cold'

Nachstenliebe · Post by **Nachstenliebe** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:21 pm

Those are some breathtaking cards

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:33 pm

They're not so fancy as some I've seen with those lovely gold and silver peel-offs that say Happy birthday or something like that *sigh* but I keep them blank so I can make them into anything -- I have some calligraphy fountain pens for occasional work, and use those to write Happy Birthday / Thinking of You / Congratulations or whatever is needed for that particular card.

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:16 pm

These are lovely, Mabel. Having them blank makes them very versatile.

Cecilia · Post by **Cecilia** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:48 pm

Serinde wrote:These are lovely, Mabel. Having them blank makes them very versatile.

Absolutely!

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:17 am

7b is done

It was a bit of a journey -- while stitching the model it gained an extra petal, I re-jigged the beads, I changed the colours, and changed the shape of another petal

but here it is, with crossover bars (my own invention) in the middle.

Serinde · Post by **Serinde** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:54 am

The crossover bars are really interesting. I've only seen something like it on a larger border (one of the pieces of hardanger in my gallery illustrates it). Keeping track of "ups and downs" become very important!

Louise1262 · Post by **Louise1262** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 1:40 pm

Worth the wait Mabel - it's stunning.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 2:24 pm

Thanks Serinde, that was the perfect excuse to go through your whole gallery -- what great pieces of embroidery there are in there! I couldn't find the one you meant though, or perhaps I overlooked the detail

What you said is one of the reasons why I usually qualify the phrase "my own invention"

-- it is my own invention, in that I hadn't seen it anywhere, and thought it up myself, but of course there are only so many things you can do with bars and fillings and so different people are bound to come up with the same things sometimes! It is one of the reasons why copyrght can be such a tricky area, and why (unless you know otherwise?) I don't think stitches can be copyrighted.

On to the next Floral Lace -- that'll be Pimpernel (as in "the scarlet..."), with gamma stitches.

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