Mabel's other stitching 2021
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I love seeing this come together using lots of stitches that I have never seen before and it looks great
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- Squirrel
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Lovely and bright
Sally in Brisbane Australia
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Thank you - I've had a lot of practice with Hengest and Ethelnute, and that has definitely helped me get more regular. Once you get a rhythm going it's a very useful stitch, especially for lettering (it's a horror to unpick though...)
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- wendywombat
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Those oranges are superb.
I've never had much luck with split stitch either....would Never try in anything other than in a Straight line!
I've never had much luck with split stitch either....would Never try in anything other than in a Straight line!
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Love those oranges!
Carole
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Stitching group today - six of us there again, and at the next one (in two weeks' time because next Monday is a Bank Holiday) we hope to be seven. Two more wanting to come back in September, and two I have still to contact, but it looks like we will have most of the regulars back after the summer, fingers crossed.
I took the orange tree, and decided that the green design lines showing around some of the leaves were annoying me after all, so I took out the straight stitches and put in more bullion knots. Have also started on the second cluster of oranges, which uses woven wheels.
I took the orange tree, and decided that the green design lines showing around some of the leaves were annoying me after all, so I took out the straight stitches and put in more bullion knots. Have also started on the second cluster of oranges, which uses woven wheels.
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I have to say that I think the leaves do look much better now. I thought the straight stitches looked 'fuzzy' . Now they look more realistic.
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
A lovely update on this bright cheery design.
Sally in Brisbane Australia
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
This is so special to see developing.
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I agree! There is something about this design that makes me smile!
Carole
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Nearly there
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
your stitching is beyond awesome!! Very breathtaking!
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Dimensions Passion Flower Angel
Tempting Tangles Welcome SAL
Various small designs
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I completely agree!!
Carole
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Star Wars Afghan:Chewbaca
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O Kitten Tree
Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
They look good enough to eat.
Sally in Brisbane Australia
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Christmas Stocking from World of Cross Stitching mag. 262
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Christmas Stocking from World of Cross Stitching mag. 262
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
The finished orange tree, with a close-up of the third cluster of oranges in French knots:
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
Beautiful. And you French Knots are so neat and even.
- Squirrel
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
A Fabulous finish Mabel and those French knots are in a class of their own. Another Masterpiece from your busy needles.
Sally in Brisbane Australia
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
The Orange Tree looks wonderful. I really like the effect of different stitches on the oranges...brilliant design feature!
What next under your needle for 'other stitching' I wonder?
What next under your needle for 'other stitching' I wonder?
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I'm hoping to get back a bit more to Hengest and Llandrindod in between the Certificate, so this thread might languish for a bit.
There's also a goldwork design which I want to enter in a competition/exhibition in aid of our Church's new building, but which Stitch magazine has also expressed an interest in as long as I can get everything done (stitching, notes, instructions, stitch diagrams, progress photos) by mid- November. Sounds like a lot of time, but it flies! But there are some very tempting kits in my stash as well, so who knows...
There's also a goldwork design which I want to enter in a competition/exhibition in aid of our Church's new building, but which Stitch magazine has also expressed an interest in as long as I can get everything done (stitching, notes, instructions, stitch diagrams, progress photos) by mid- November. Sounds like a lot of time, but it flies! But there are some very tempting kits in my stash as well, so who knows...
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Elizabethan Beauty, RSN Certificate & Online
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Flights of Fancy (blog)
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Elizabethan Beauty, RSN Certificate & Online
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Soli Deo Gloria, Mechthild, bling unicorn, goldwork & silk shading kits
Flights of Fancy (blog)
Mabel's FB page
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2021
I love the way you have used the french knots to form the texture on the oranges
Jo
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