Originally posted 2008-08-07 09:10:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
BACKGROUNDS CD, Volume 1, Ruth Schmuff and Janice McGuire, self-published, 2008.
I loved Ruth’s two disks of stitches. I like them so much I even made a spreadsheet of all the stitches so I could find them easily. So imagine my delight when I found out a couple of weeks ago there is a new CD, just on backgrounds.
Now you might be thinking that there are plenty of backgrounds in the first two CDs and you’d be right. But this CD present 481 repeat patterns that are classified by the size of the repeat.
What I love about these is that they take advantage of one of my favorite background techniques, needlepoint damask. In this technique threads of contrasting texture, value, or color are stitched in a regular pattern to make the background.
Starting from one stitch repeats and going up to a 40 stitch pattern, Ruth and Janice have come up with all kinds of inventive patterns which are perfect for this technique. Each one is presented on a PDF page. Many of them substitute some of the Tent Stitched with Diagonal Gobelins, Mosaics, or Scotch Stitches, to create another type of pattern. If there is one of these alternate versions, it is presented on the same page.
Because the patterns are all done in Acrobat format, any computer can use it with Acrobat Reader. Each pattern has the repeat in height and width presented at the top of the page, making it easy to find a background to fit any space.
I’m excited to get working on a new project to use some of these patterns.
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Way to go Ruth and Janice-much success with your latest venture!
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