I forgot to post the last time I did a weekend stitch on my Chatelaine, so what you are about to see is two weekends worth!
Happy Stitching!
Sue
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than in the kitchen!
I forgot to post the last time I did a weekend stitch on my Chatelaine, so what you are about to see is two weekends worth!
Happy Stitching!
Sue
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Alas, no Chatelaine Weekender for me last weekend because I was away for a few days and my chatelaine was too big to take with me.
More about the trip at the end of this but I did still take some stitching with me.
As you can see, I didn’t get a great deal done while I was away but at least it was a start and I managed to finish him off last night.
All I have to do now
is get something to back him with.
Now on to the trip………
I was lucky enough to be invited to a very special House Party to celebrate my cousin Ken’s 70th birthday. In fact we were celebrating three birthdays, because there was also a 50th and 60th, so very special indeed!
It was a fabulous evening, even the fairies had a good time by the looks of things!
Sunday we all did our own thing, exploring the surrounding area, or just relaxing in the beautiful 4 acre gardens before all enjoying an amazing BBQ….and more cocktails!!
We headed home on Bank Holiday Monday and fortunately the traffic was kind to us.
So now you know why I didn’t get a lot of stitching done.
Happy Stitching!
Sue
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This is where I left it last Sunday.
For my Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday stitch this weekend, the plan was to do one of the twelve 1 over 1 butterflies and then add some more to the lace background……. as I said, that was the plan.
Unfortunately, despite stitching until midnight on Sunday, I didn’t even manage to finish the butterfly.
I don’t think I had
given a thought to all the colour changes in it and I’m not good at parking
threads, I just end up with a big tangled mess, so I was having the keep
turning my Omanik scroll frame over which was a real pain.
In the end I decided to put it on a Q-Snap and it was much better to deal with.
Happy Stitching!
Sue
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Well, I had a total disaster with the last part of the band sampler.
Why I never noticed it last week I’ll never know, but when I went to start cutting my threads this week I realised I’d stuffed up my Kloister Blocks.
I worked down the left side just fine, but when I began the right side I managed to work my satin stitched in the wrong direction.
No problem I though, I hadn’t started cutting, so I could simply frog them and re stitch the Hardanger.
But what do I go and do……as I’m cutting the
stitches to pull them out I somehow managed to through the fabric.
My first thought was that was weeks of work wasted and I was ready to throw it in the bin, but I left it for a day or two and went back to it to see if I could salvage it.
What I ended up doing was cutting off the fabric below the last flower band. I then carefully hand stitched another piece to the bottom and re-stitched the Hardanger over the seam.
I fully finished it on 26th April and it didn’t turn out too bad but I’m sad you can see the seam on either side if the point. At least I didn’t have the scrap the whole project.
Thank you Thea, for the fun project. It was my first Victoria Sampler Sal and I can’t wait for the next one!
Happy Stitching!
Sue
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Having finished ‘May’ I’m actually more than half done with
these panels, that because I’ve already stitched June and July.
I did them as part of
my Stitch Maynia last year, so I just have
five more to go.
Sue
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Chart – Joyful World –
May
Designer – The
Snowflower Diaries – Maja Matyas
Fabric – 32ct Murano
Evenweave – Beige
Threads – DMC (called for & substitutes)
I hope everyone is having a lovey Easter break and is getting lots of stitching in, but a word of caution……..
Keep the chocolate
eggs away from your stitching; we don’t want chocolaty finger marks all over
our projects, do we!
Although it’s a long Easter weekend break, I’m keeping my ‘weekender’ to Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday as I usually do.
Here’s where I was when I picked her up on Friday evening.
We are getting very close to an end with the ‘Souvenir’ stitch-a-long from Victoria Sampler.
This week we have created the pointed end to our bell pull and introduced some Hardanger Kloister Blocks into our stitching as well as some Algerian Eyelets.
Hardanger is usually stitched
with Perle cotton thread but as I didn’t have any, I decided to try doing mine
with the Weeks Dye Works thread that I’ve been using for the rest of the design
and use three strands, which seemed to be about the right thickness.
I also added some small seed beads at the end.
Happy Stitching!
Sue
Stitches so far:-
Cross stitch, Back stitch, Lazy Daises, Rhodes Heart, Colonial Knots, Bargello, Satin Stitch, Hem stitch, French Knots. Blackwork, Double Running Stitch, Honeycomb Stitch, Silk Flowers, Double Rice Stitch, Double Herringbone Stitch, Bullion Knot, Algerian Eyelets, Hardanger Kloister Blocks.
Weeks Dye Works,
Classic Colorworks,
The Gentle Art
Madeira Glissen Gloss
Anchor
DMC
Beads
Mill Hill
Brass Charm
Silk Ribbon (4mm)