Oops--I didn't mean to wait so long between posts, but I have been working diligently. Hopefully pictures will follow shortly, but I have finished the stitching on the hardanger project. I still need to cut it out. I have also finished the stitching on the blackwork project. I still have ends that need to be dealt with, but the silk ones need fraycheck or they will just slip out of their knots.
I have made a decent start on the brickwork piece. I have decided what all of my colors will be. I find myself doing a lot of picking back stitches that I missed a count on about 10 min to an hour ago, but count really matters in brick stitch work so I really need to fix it. I am starting to have enough done that the errors are a little more obvious-the difference in the length of a short gap that is a thread too short or too long versus the same error on a longer gap is much harder to see. (I hope that made sense to people other than me :-) Anyway, today looks like a slow day at work and as I have permission to embroider I will probably do what I can to start the free embroidery project of the Athena's Thimble Owl, which will be my fourth project.
Happy stitching
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
I have been busy, just not posting
As I have stated before, I am trying to achieve ranking in Athena's thimble guild of the East Kingdom. Specifically I am trying to achieve the rank of Journeyman. That means you need to achieve at least working knowledge in 2 and competence in 2 of the 12 categories of embroidery as listed by the guild.
Blackwork
I have 1 pattern row all but complete, mostly just waiting for a short tail of thread to be left over from another pattern strip, the second pattern row is the leaves and flowers as pictured in an earlier post. I am now almost done the involved leaf row, and one of the two border rows is done, but the other is not yet started.
Hardanger
The kloster blocks are finished, and the cutting, interweaving and dove's eyes are all done. I need to decide what I am doing in the center and finish the edging, then cut it out. I have discovered I REALLY DISLIKE the outside corners of the border in buttonhole stitch.
Brick Stitch
This is barely started, and I need floss in a color that will go well with the colors I have chosen for the main piece. I have discovered that most of my thread choices of dmc rather than multipacks of cheap stuff are in the blue purple and green family. Guess what my favorite colors are? lol I have nothing in the gold family, and very little in the off-white family. This is the pattern I am following, using maroon and dark blue for the motifs, probably gold for the dots and a cream color for the bars.
Other
I will probably be doing free embroidery here-make a pattern or cartoon for what you are doing and follow or fill in with various decorative stitches that are appropriate (or fun). I think I am going to use this to make the guild symbol and wear it as a favor denoting my membership in the guild. That way I immediately have a use for it.
All of this is important at the moment because on the 29th of March, there is an event called mudthaw, where there will be a panel for athena's thimble. I am hoping to have all four done by then, or at least done enough to get rankings. I somehow think that I won't quite make that deadline. I am also baking for the cooking thynge on the 12th. I seem to become the bhakaili bread baker. I have volunteered for the honor, but it does take work.
There has also been a bit of scribal progress in the time since my last post, but I have not taken pics yet.
Hopefully pics will be forthcoming--depending on the cooperation of my camera.
- Applique (inlay and onlay)
- Blackwork (blackwork, speckled blackwork)
- Canvaswork (needlepoint, Florentine)
- Couching and Laidwork (excluding metallic threads)
- Counted Thread
- Free Embroidery
- Lacis
- Metal Thread (including couching of metallic threads)
- Needlelace (reticella, tenerife, punto in aria)
- Openwork (hardanger, hemstitching, drawn and pulled work, cutwork)
- Padded Work (stumpwork, quilting variations)
- Pleated Embroidery/Smocking
Blackwork
I have 1 pattern row all but complete, mostly just waiting for a short tail of thread to be left over from another pattern strip, the second pattern row is the leaves and flowers as pictured in an earlier post. I am now almost done the involved leaf row, and one of the two border rows is done, but the other is not yet started.
Hardanger
The kloster blocks are finished, and the cutting, interweaving and dove's eyes are all done. I need to decide what I am doing in the center and finish the edging, then cut it out. I have discovered I REALLY DISLIKE the outside corners of the border in buttonhole stitch.
Brick Stitch
This is barely started, and I need floss in a color that will go well with the colors I have chosen for the main piece. I have discovered that most of my thread choices of dmc rather than multipacks of cheap stuff are in the blue purple and green family. Guess what my favorite colors are? lol I have nothing in the gold family, and very little in the off-white family. This is the pattern I am following, using maroon and dark blue for the motifs, probably gold for the dots and a cream color for the bars.
Other
I will probably be doing free embroidery here-make a pattern or cartoon for what you are doing and follow or fill in with various decorative stitches that are appropriate (or fun). I think I am going to use this to make the guild symbol and wear it as a favor denoting my membership in the guild. That way I immediately have a use for it.
All of this is important at the moment because on the 29th of March, there is an event called mudthaw, where there will be a panel for athena's thimble. I am hoping to have all four done by then, or at least done enough to get rankings. I somehow think that I won't quite make that deadline. I am also baking for the cooking thynge on the 12th. I seem to become the bhakaili bread baker. I have volunteered for the honor, but it does take work.
There has also been a bit of scribal progress in the time since my last post, but I have not taken pics yet.
Hopefully pics will be forthcoming--depending on the cooperation of my camera.
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