August 2021 post

 Gosh...haven't posted in a long while.

Here is a pic of the progress on Liz Turner Diehl's Irish garden:

I've also been stitching on a silhouette of a lady at her spinning wheel and the Peppermint Purple Blackwork SAL. Will post those pics soon

January 1st start and finish!!

 Just finished my rotation on this January 1st start, after I fray the edges, make the cushion and attach the stitching, I then will add a small key to the design in the centre of the dark green table.

Here is my second finish, a lavender bag which was my other January 1st start.

Of course, I still have to do the final finishing.....

Both were gifts from ages ago, I prefer evenweave and linen now so thought it was time to do them at last

First finish for 2021

 Well, at least a stitching finish, not a final finish!! Here it is, a lovely cushion design in Hardanger by Yvette Stanton

Just realised there are meant to be small beads attached in some of the spaces....oh well, thats for another day when I find the right beads!!

Cherry Blossoms Biscornu by Sweetheart tree

 As promised, here is the first side of my biscornu, just finished sewing the beads on. Rather lovely colours, its a kit by the Sweetheart Tree. I have previously started the second side which is a duplicate of the first side, but have only done the middle bit up to the eyelets.. There will be a cute pink heart in the middle of each side!!

A small finish

 Just finished a small hardanger mat designed by one of my favourite embroiderers, Yvette Stanton.

This piece was selected as my rotation piece. Not sure if I should do some buttonhole stitch round the edge. Any suggestions?? It's framed in the book

17th century Band sampler

Just finished my current rotation and have "finished" the stitching, but next time I pick this project in my rotation, I will complete the hemstitching to finish it off.

I did the last part of lettering and went back to finish the hardanger like bits in the whitework section, just removed threads in the open parts as the other stitching had to be completed before removing any threads.

It's a lovely piece from Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly a pattern by Darlene O'Steen. Its a few feet long on 32 count ecru linen.

May finish

Here is my first attempt at Portuguese whitework from Yvette Stanton's book.

I didn't have the right linen (this one was natural instead of white and rather stiff) but I wanted to have a go. Tracing the pattern for the middle stitching was hard through the non-white fabric which was fairly dense, but it was only a practice piece.

The outside drawn thread work is meant to be "wiggly", in fact they are called wiggly bars!!!

I hadn't done bullions for a long while.