2016 Round in Circles Hardanger SAL

[Lulu22]

Wonderful stitching Sally and Mabel very pretty pattern and colour choices

[rcperryls]

Love the colors, Sally! So pretty!

Carole

[karen4bells]

Wonderful stitching Sally and Mabel very pretty pattern and colour choices

I totally agree---I must get myself going and register for this and find some nice threads

[Squirrel]

Thank you for your kind comments. The threads are all DMC, the main motifs are a variegated one (# not on it now) and 224 and 353. As I didn't have beads with me, the centre is a full cross in DMC mettalic E130

[lavenderbee]

How pretty this is Sally, nicely worked too. I agree with the others another lovely design by Mabel.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Lovely colours Sally, very sunny and warm which is welcome here in January! Was the variegated thread DMC as well? If so I'd guess it may be Variations 4160.

[Squirrel]

Mabel - Yes it was DMC as are all the threads this time round. I suspect that Miss Sasha found the number bit and had a play and it could be anywhere now.


PS a few days later a friend "needed" to go to Spotlight to get some knitting needles and the DMC threads were just right there, so of course I got loose and bought another bundle of variegated perle 5 - of course. Love playing with colours.

[Mabel Figworthy]

of course I got loose and bought another bundle of variegated perle 5 - of course. Love playing with colours.

They are such good value for adding a bit of variegated colour to projects when you don't quite want to splash out on hand-dyeds - and colour-fast too! So of course you couldn't resist that wonderful opportunity

[wendywombat]

of course I got loose and bought another bundle of variegated perle 5 - of course. Love playing with colours.

They are such good value for adding a bit of variegated colour to projects when you don't quite want to splash out on hand-dyeds - and colour-fast too! So of course you couldn't resist that wonderful opportunity

I agree there. I love the #5 pearl threads from DMC and Anchor. Threadworxs are great too.

[Serinde]

My fabric and threads have now arrived. A fat quarter means that I'll either need more fabric or might use another 25ct fabric in my stash as well as the Dresden Blue (Chromatic Alchemy's "Amaranthine" for instance. (Not a shabby alternative!) I ordered two Caron Snow threads, which I've never used before, in case they come in handy (as you do): white and shadow. More silver...!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Amaranthine is gorgeous and would look great stitched in the very very light blue of Moonglow! Caron Snow is a wonderful thread to use as an alternative to perle #5 - the wings of the dragonfly in Resurrection are stitched in white and grey Snow and although it's hard to make it show up in pictures they have a lovely shimmery look in real life.

[Squirrel]

Love the subtle colour change in the white.

A quilting friend took me with her to 2 (!!!) quilt shops which also had cross stitch and lots of threads.

A Cottage Threads ?8 (or maybe 12 perle) Katies Blush
3 EdMar - 2 are ?#8 perle verigated (1 pinks the other pale teal and soft fawn)
1 is a spft [ink variegated Boucle.
3 Gumnut Threads 273 273 197 mauves/pink

Threadworx 1116 muted variegated green/blue/brown.

Too cloudy today so dark inside and too windy outside to take pics so will do it later.



OK Here they all are - my recent additions to the already overflowing boxes of threads.

On the right are the DMC (mostly variegated) variegated dmc threads from earlier in my stay here, the left is what I bought today.

[wendywombat]

Beeeeeooootiful colours, Sally!

I love Threadworx...I'm collecting those in #5 &#8
The cottage threads and Gumnut I've never heard of but Oh! I shall add those to my 'Lust List'

I've been tempted by Amaranthine too, so pretty! I like the Caron Snow effect threads too!

[Mabel Figworthy]

Gumnut silks are beautiful to work with, and come in lovely colours (in "families" of five shades of a colour), but they're not easy to get in the UK - and very expensive when you do find them! They come in various types, like stranded cotton, and a sort of perle #8, and a wool mix, and they used to do subtly variegated colours too but they have been discontinued unfortunately although you can sometimes pick up leftover stock. Have a look here for some droolworthy pictures.

I used some of their stranded silks for Bittersweet - you may be able to see from the picture that even the "solid" colours have some lovely shading to them.

[karen4bells]

Sally, those threads are wonderful!!

[rcperryls]

Can't wait to see those threads being used!! They are beautiful, Sally! Looks like you are having a very good time while house sitting!

Carole

[Serinde]

Mabel, will I be thrown out if I start this design from the inside and work out? I think the straight sides of the whipped backstitch begins at 38 from the centre, but until I know that for a fact, I'm always nervous... Don't want to encourage any of our green "friends". ( )

[Mabel Figworthy]

Serinde, you can work it any which way you like - I give suggestions, but you know as well as anyone that needlework designs can rarely be done in Only One Way.

By the way, the second January post is now up!

[Squirrel]

Mabel - Definitely yummy threads those Gumnut silks are and I would like to get more of them. I must recheck with my friend Christine as to the name of the shop we went into yesterday so I know where to find them. I see also that my favourite shop in Brisbane has them too - very bad for the budget though.

Serinde - I just found the centre of the fabric and started with the central motif and worked out as I find that the easiest.

[Mabel Figworthy]

By the way, for those of you who can't access the SAL blog, here is Lexi being my little helper when I'm trying to take pictures of stitches....