I stitched during the news and then was just too tired and it was getting too late to add those final letters. As I'm rereading Pride and Prejudice at the moment I will save it for later. There are two Jane Austen books I've not yet read, and Emma is one of them, and this made me want to pull out my copy and start reading right away. I think I like this remake the best and will have to buy it for my little DVD collection (I only buy movies I know I will enjoy watching more than once). I'm afraid I got a little wrapped up in what I was watching, however, Emma on Masterpiece Theatre. It was my goal yesterday to finish the alphabet on my Quaker Heart freebie and do the backstitching around the heart (I plan on making this into a pincushion), and then maybe even put in the first few stitches on the reverse side's design. I'm all kitted up and ready to go.īut first I'll me working away on my Quaker Heart. The first section is seen above and calls for Korty's Blend fabric. I am hoping to finally start my Blackbird Design Mystery Sampler very very soon. It calls for Navy Bean, which I think is closer to off white, but we'll see how this works.Īnd one more. I pulled out 40 count Lambswool, and I think the colors look okay on it. I've decided I do want to start this Quaker Heart Sampler by The Needle's Content. This is an awful photo (again no sun so I have no natural light to work with), so you can't get a good idea of that the colors really look like. What a lovely surprise! Now I am all set to go, and really there isn't much to the design, so I think it's the finishing that is going to take a while on this one. for sending along the ribbon that I needed. I still hope to stitch this before the end of the month. I've put in only a very few stitches on my Valentine Wabbit by Sheepish Designs. Here's a little close up of the over one stitching, which wasn't too awful at all! What I find hard is solid rows/areas of over-one stitches-I tend to lose my place easily, but letters and borders are pretty easy (only I hate the counting part-too tiny stitches). I've not worked on this one much in the last week, but I'm really looking forward to getting back to it. I finally finished the first row of the border on my sampler farm and did a bit more of the over-one stitching. Hopefully I can share a finished photo sometime tomorrow-just in time for Valentine's Day. Any ideas? I may have to just mess about with it a bit to see. I always use two plies of floss for the backstitching, but I wonder if only one ply will be sufficient for the whip stitching, as I'm not sure two plies will fit through the beads. I was wondering how it would look with beads attached to the edges as well? Maybe small pearl/white beads? I've done this before, but it's been so long I can't quite remember how I did it. I plan on back stitching and whip stitching the hearts together and making this into a pin cushion (I have a fondness for pin cushions). I was hoping I would have finished all the stitching on my Quaker Heart freebie, but I still have a couple of motifs left on the back to stitch.
What do you think? Too bright? Okay? Too soon to tell? I think I'll keep going and if I hate it I can always order the missing overdyed flosses and start over again.
I've never done this before and wonder how it will turn out. I'm wondering if the "fire" DMC substitution (used for the words) isn't too bright? BOAF designs tend to use bright colors and I haven't got much else stitched to even things out yet, so maybe I am being too hasty? The flosses at the top right are more overdyed substitutions-using on strand of each color. I prefer all overdyed floss but don't want to take the time to order the missing colors. Raw linen and using a combination of DMC and overdyed floss as called for in the chart. I wanted to wait until I had more stitched to share a photo, but as I probably won't stitch much until the weekend I thought I'd just go ahead and take a photo. I've started stitching my Birds of a Feather freebie, "Feed the Birds".
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