The finish was a quiet breath as I pulled tight the last stitch and buried my thread in the back. No big feelings, just a pleasant satisfaction that I did it. And I am 2 days shy of month’s end which means I judged my time very well and didn’t have to rush or compromise to finish my goal. That, […]
Friends, I can just about taste that finish of Dorcas. This is the penultimate check in…I am sure the next time I photograph Dorcas she will be finished. I finished the Satin Stitch Band above, and below shows my improvement of the color in “Like”…the left hand picture shows the final and the right hand picture shows the anemic pink […]
Checking the “to do’s” off on Dorcas this weekend… I also reorganized and tidied up my threads and my 2 (!) project bags I use for Dorcas and selected the colors for the upcoming work. I still need to pick the colors for the bullion knot flower centers. That won’t be hard. I just didn’t do it yet. During the […]
Hello…and here we are 12 days into September…I have finished Dorcas’ inscription, I have charted and stitched my name inscription band, and I have started the satin stitched vine. Since my name inscription is on there now, we can see how big the project is…my name band is the end of the project. You can see I have plenty of […]
I really made sure to get some stitching time this weekend and made huge progress on the Berries Band and the Dorcas Haynes Inscription. I just have to put the embellishments between the words on the inscription band and stitch the other half of the berries.m I also took out the “like” in the verse because I really didn’t like […]
This month I almost finished the large floral arcade band! Almost finished because I haven’t done the bullion knot middles of the flowers. That’s ok. I will get to them just like the acorn caps, probably at the very end. Even though my hoop stitching hasn’t messed up the satin stitches or the french knot centers of the flowers in […]
This past weekend I worked through The Attic’s Summer School. It was a really fabulous event. I was a worker bee, not a participant, but still got to enjoy some good stitching time and socializing with all the lovely stitching people over the weekend. That is a real perk of working at Attic Needlework! Here is some inspiration for you […]
Dorcas has been getting all my attention lately (whoo!) and I’ve been filling in… The vine is diagonal double back stitch. The little leaves are satin stitch. The flower stems are Gobelin stitch. The flowers are a pattern of satin stitch. The big leaves are queen stitch. I have a lot of queen stitch to do. And I first have […]
This weekend my goal was to finish the outline on the big flower band on Dorcas. I did it! I was delighted to discover this band is just about as centered as I could manage. I am plotting the order of work for the fills. There are so many different ones. I know the queen stitched leaves (the big double […]
I bit the bullet this week and picked the colors for the big flower band on Dorcas Haynes and figured out where the center should be. This figuring took an hour or so away from actual stitching time but now I can start stitching with confidence! I have to admit I also was hesitant starting this band because the Scarlet […]
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