This was a real challenge to me, trying to make hearts which had bright contemporary colors and still use threads in my stash. But didn’t my bellpull turn out great? I used a taupe metallic (72) from Kreinik for the grid and all analogous color schemes, mostly keeping the colors medium to light and all the backgrounds light. The analogous colors keep things calm instead of frantic and the lighter values make it, I think, happy. I also picked geometric patterns and kept the stitches simple. Since there are eight of them, I’m going to split the explanation of it into two parts. The first four will be today and the next four on Tuesday. If you want to make your own heart sampler begin by drawing out the 2″ squares on your canvas. I have eight on a 6″ x12″ canvas. Then using the heart outlines in this post
Monthly Archive:: February 2009
Rittenhouse Needlepoint, a new shop in Philadephia, put up a great post about this often neglected stitch. In my stitching, I tend to use this stitch in it’s smaller form and then pretty much only for borders. But I am intrigued by the idea of the larger version of the stitch and it ropey effect. I’m thinking it could be really cool stitched over an area of T Stitch so it wouldn’t look so undone. I’m going to have to try that
Don’t you just love being on the cutting edge of societal evolution? And you just thought you loved needlepoint. But it’s suddenly become fashionable as this post on NY Fashion Week shows. And what’s cool about it is that this is a fashion blog, not a craft blog. Can’t think og a better way to stitch in public than waiting for a fashion show to start
After I finished the previous post, I found a fourth new stitch on Barbara’s project, Framed Stem Stitch. Needlepoint Stem Stitch is a stitch I don’t use all that often, maybe because I find doing the row of Backstitch down the center a bit fiddly and I don’t much like it in large blocks. But I can’t believe how much adding columns of Continental between the rows of stem as Barbara has done changes the stitch. This change in texture adds so much and makes it look great. I’m going to have to try it soon
Today is National Stitch in Public Day! After the success of the First Stitch in Public Day last September with events all over the country celebrating EGA’S 50th Anniversary, EGA decided to make it an annual event and designate the first Saturday in February as Stitch in Public Day. I’m stitching with some friends at Starbucks near the Solano Mall in Fairfield, CA from 9-11 and then at the nearby Barnes & Noble from 11-2. If you are in the area, stop by and see us. If you stitched in public today, let me know all about it in the Comments