Garnet's Stitch-a-long Updated 26th July 2022

[Midge]

The owl is just gorgeous. Fantastic work!

[mags]

Love all your finishes and the owl is wonderful.

[Mabel Figworthy]

All lovely finished but that owl is amazing (and of course I love the Delft tulip )

[Squirrel]

Oh my goodness your needle must be red hot getting all this beautiful Owl one finished. I love it and what a gorgeous array of other creatures around him. As for the other 2 they are beautifully stitched. You sure have kept busy whilst the Forum has been down. Beautiful work in all of them and what a delightful array of subjects too. Well Done Maureen.

[Garnet]

Hello Lovelies, thank you for all your kind replies.

I have been very tardy at updating this thread, I only took photos yesterday, I will try to update regularly in future.

I finished Every Day May Not Be Good.... on 28th June.



I stitched up two more Art Nouveau bookmarks to replace those I have given away (they do make great little thank you gifts)



I stitched a tiny version of Edvard Munch's The Scream.



How tiny is the Tiny Scream? here with the bookmarks for scale



I need to stitch some fabric on to my biggest frame for my next project, or I may stitch the Delft Bluebells to go with the Delft Daffodils.

[Serinde]

These are good-looking, and very handy. A tiny "scream" is useful?

[Mabel Figworthy]

the "poster" is such a lovely piece ! And I'm not surprised people are delighted to receive the bookmarks as a Thank You

[rcperryls]

You have been busy and I think they all great. The tiny scream is very unique. I wouldn't have thought so much detail could be in such a small piece. I really like it.

Carole

[Garnet]

Thank you lovelies, you are so kind.

Carole, the tiny Scream measures 2 1/4 x 3 inches, I forgot to add measurements to the above post. Next to find a tiny frame for it

[mags]

Beautiful bookmarks and I love the scream.

[Roland]

All such lovely work.

I especially like The Scream because I am in to painting lately.

[Garnet]

Hello Lovelies, Thank you ever so much for your lovely replies.

Well, I'm sorry it's been a while again, I really struggled in the heat last week, we had 37.1c which is ridiculous for Wales, we should be around 18-20c, finally feeling better though, I stitched when I could so I have two updates

Delft Bluebells to go with Delft Daffodil



I still want to stitch two more Art Nouveau bookmarks, but I was eager to get started on my latest project



I am having to stitch "in the well" with this one, which I dislike as I find I can never get the fabric as taut as when the fabric is over the bars, the sampler is so wide at 21 inches with 3 inches either side so 27 inches, I am stitching this one in sections as I will be using my Lowery long frame adaptor for the right hand side.

Eeek! a long way to go yet.

[Serinde]

Love the bluebells! I enjoy doing some smalls "in the well", but take your point about a big piece. And yet it looks wonderful. I'll enjoy watching this one grow.

(We had 27C here, too. Ridiculous.)

[Steam.Jo]

I hope you enjoy doing the Moira Blackburn piece as much as I did back in 2000. Interesting that they have changed the colour of the flowers on the inner 'loop' to white, on my earlier piece they alternated red and violet.

I wonder what else they have changed. Is it still on 18 count?

Jo

[Garnet]

Jo, this is Moira Blackburn's Oak Tree Sampler, it only came out on 28 September 2021 (unless it is a re-issue) by Bothy Threads.

The flowers on the inner are alternating white and off white.

It is stitched on 16 count Aida.

So far it is a joy to stitch.

[Steam.Jo]

I really enjoyed it when I did mine. This is my original:



You may be able to make out it is on a "Rustico" coloured fabric, which is the same on her "To everything is a season" one:



I wonder what else they changed

Jo

[Garnet]

https://www.bothythreads.com/shop/kits/oak-tree

This is the link to the updated version.

How interesting, I wasn't aware it had been released before, I wonder what other of her designs may be updated in future.

I love the colours in the updated version.

[rcperryls]

The bluebells are beautiful! Great start on the Sampler too. Interesting to see the difference in colors between this design and the one that Jo stitched.

Carole

[vanessanjf]

Lots of beautiful projects