Originally posted 2009-04-03 06:53:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Have you ever gotten and canvas you just love but have no idea how to stitch?
I got this little birdhouse last weekend at my guild meeting. I loved the bright cheery colors.
But now that I have it, I don’t know how to stitch it.
So it’s going into my stash for awhile.
But I’d love to know, how would you stitch it?
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Did you mean stitch, or finish? I’d finish it as a little stand up….how cute! How about doing some of those flowers in ribbons? I would do those diamonds along the bottom in a straight stitch, something a little glitzy for the gold diamond, with something flat like a floss for the green. This is a fun canvas!!
I thought so too. I was also thinking about ribbons for the flowers. Ribbon embroidery is one of my not good techniques and this would give me a chance to practice.
I also unpacked the ribbon embroidery books recently and those pictures got me thinking as well.
But the background is really puzzling me, I love its delicacy and don’t want that to disappear under the stitching.
Keep Stitching,
Janet
Slanted Gobeleins up and down the birdhouse in a light,golden brown to ecru overdye (dies such a thing exist?), padded gobeleins for the rim of the feeder thing, and I would try to match the canvas size and almost stump stitch the bird so he would really stand out, round and chubby against his house.
Ribbon floss for the flowers and leaves also sounds good to me, and woven stitches for the gold diamonds (if the count is right) and triangle point for the green.
All this is conjecture, of course.
Well, I’d email Ms. Janet Perry Her Very Self and ask her to write a stitch guide for me, since I am completely impaired when it comes to figuring out what to do with canvases and she wrote a guide for me that I have looked at every day and can hardly wait to start! (Tee Hee!) Janet, I think that no matter what you do with this…it will be beautiful!
What about an open lattice work stitch for the background in one ply of a variegated floss? (Kind of a tone on tone effect?)
Hi Janet,
I think I would do a T stitch on the vertical boards on the birdhouse. You could do light coverage – maybe 2 strands of an overdyed floss. Because its over 1, you wouldn’t have any compensating and some of the brown painted lines would still be showing, adding to the color.
I would make a copy of the canvas. Then, I would use a couple of strands of overyded floss and do the birdhouse. In that way you can work the flowers and leaves (following your copy) in silk ribbons, possibly stitching a few beads in the centers. With floss twisted on itself I would make cording for the stem. The bottom of the house could be worked in a Hungarian stitch with Rainbow linen.
The bird could be in basketweave, Neon Rays. The background could be a pearl 8 in a trellis or woven stitch.
I would have fun with this canvas.
Hi Janet,
I would do a very light stitch for the background, maybe 2 strands of silk and just do some nice straight stitches on the brown, & then an even lighter, one strand, maybe #4 kreinik in a white or very light color, going right over those straight stitches. What a fun canvas!