My husband mounted my stitching from seminar on the box Denise Harrington Pratt provided. I think he did a much better job than I would have! I'm still debating putting the cording around the edge like she has hers. I'll probably put it on on Sunday. Anyway, it's pretty much an heirloom piece now. I like it. The pictures don't show how really green and marbly the box is. I have another one of her kits to make. Will probably get to it after the beginning of the year.
I got all the stems on the flower done this week. The stitching looks good, and this really does go very quickly when worked on. I'm not sure what the next step is, but I'm pleased with how it's come out so far. Taking those huge copper wires through the silk gave my hands a workout and I'm surprised it didn't damage the silk. Anyway, I'm pleased with my first attempt.
The original directions called for the bargello circles to be filled with ecru eyelets in size 12 perle ... it faded into the background, like the elongated stitches do, but worse. So I used Kreinik braid on them. I think it looks a lot better. I also added really fine gold cord to the elongated cross stitches to make them a bit less subtle too. After this picture was taken, I've finished the bottom row of the red "flowers" and am almost done with the side row of them. There are filling stitches and such on them, too.
Because this hasn't been seen in a few weeks, I had my husband just take a picture of it all. He split it up. Since I just picked this up again last week, the only thing that's progressed in the pictures is the whitish peyote stitched inner rose. I got it completed. Since this picture was taken, I've added two more inches to the strap (the tiny black bit of peyote stitch). My daughter loves it so far.
Since I'm working on the second half, I get to add some color to the work other than black. It's going fairly quickly because I took it as my mobile project on Friday and had a lot of time away from home to work on it. I'm still on schedule for it, I think. I'm just pleased that I can see progress on everything this week. It's a good feeling.
I volunteered to stitch a piece for the ANG auction during seminar next year. This is what they sent me. I got a really good deal on a lot of Sheep's Silk from Thread Gatherer on ebay, so I'm using it to stitch the piece. As you can see, I barely started it before Timothy took the picture. It's due back to the coordinator by March first. I'll be putting some specialty stitches in it, but I have to figure out where looks best. I've already gotten all the green done in the upper left square and about half of the green done in the upper right.
I managed to do the dimensional couching on the practice sampler, but have decided I'm going to trim all those ends instead of plunge them. The privileges of it being a practice piece. On the other hand, I've started couching the stems on the main piece. As of this afternoon, the gold twist is lined with copper and copper also is on the biggest curlicue on the lower left. The last bit of the stems and curlicues will have the gold and copper twist on it and I'll get to it this week and then plunge all the ends as they say to. I'm finding that when I actually do stitching on this, it goes really quickly.
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My husband mounted my stitching from seminar on the box Denise Harrington Pratt provided. I think he did a much better job than I would have! I'm still debating putting the cording around the edge like she has hers. I'll probably put it on on Sunday. Anyway, it's pretty much an heirloom piece now. I like it. The pictures don't show how really green and marbly the box is. I have another one of her kits to make. Will probably get to it after the beginning of the year.
I got all the stems on the flower done this week. The stitching looks good, and this really does go very quickly when worked on. I'm not sure what the next step is, but I'm pleased with how it's come out so far. Taking those huge copper wires through the silk gave my hands a workout and I'm surprised it didn't damage the silk. Anyway, I'm pleased with my first attempt.
The original directions called for the bargello circles to be filled with ecru eyelets in size 12 perle ... it faded into the background, like the elongated stitches do, but worse. So I used Kreinik braid on them. I think it looks a lot better. I also added really fine gold cord to the elongated cross stitches to make them a bit less subtle too. After this picture was taken, I've finished the bottom row of the red "flowers" and am almost done with the side row of them. There are filling stitches and such on them, too.
Because this hasn't been seen in a few weeks, I had my husband just take a picture of it all. He split it up. Since I just picked this up again last week, the only thing that's progressed in the pictures is the whitish peyote stitched inner rose. I got it completed. Since this picture was taken, I've added two more inches to the strap (the tiny black bit of peyote stitch). My daughter loves it so far.
Since I'm working on the second half, I get to add some color to the work other than black. It's going fairly quickly because I took it as my mobile project on Friday and had a lot of time away from home to work on it. I'm still on schedule for it, I think. I'm just pleased that I can see progress on everything this week. It's a good feeling.
I volunteered to stitch a piece for the ANG auction during seminar next year. This is what they sent me. I got a really good deal on a lot of Sheep's Silk from Thread Gatherer on ebay, so I'm using it to stitch the piece. As you can see, I barely started it before Timothy took the picture. It's due back to the coordinator by March first. I'll be putting some specialty stitches in it, but I have to figure out where looks best. I've already gotten all the green done in the upper left square and about half of the green done in the upper right.
I managed to do the dimensional couching on the practice sampler, but have decided I'm going to trim all those ends instead of plunge them. The privileges of it being a practice piece. On the other hand, I've started couching the stems on the main piece. As of this afternoon, the gold twist is lined with copper and copper also is on the biggest curlicue on the lower left. The last bit of the stems and curlicues will have the gold and copper twist on it and I'll get to it this week and then plunge all the ends as they say to. I'm finding that when I actually do stitching on this, it goes really quickly.
