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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn a moment of ambition, I picked up my Autumn Foliage Sampler from The Heart’s Content. This is 1 over 1 on 40 ct. silk gauze. It is hard to do. I started by doing the border but the counting was impossible. So I decided to do just the top border, and then start in on the motifs. Then I can use them to judge the border size and hopefully there will be less room for error that way. But I am struggling with the color flow of the overdyed silk. Does it just work out? Do I need to work it in rows back and forth or in swathes? I just don\u2019t know and it\u2019s so hard to see it. But I will continue! I need to do a project like this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I am frustrated that the designer made the border 20 stitches from the center “thicker” part on all the sides but one, where it is 19. I had to pick it out because I thought it was all 20. Phooey. I know I couldn’t have fudged it, but I still can’t figure out the reason for this discrepancy. Still, being such a small thing I am not sure anyone could tell one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been working on Blackbird’s Wild Garden. It is coming along much faster! This is an easy stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve also been working a little on the Samplers Not Forgotten project, Garden Urn Pincushion, another easy stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started something new, the Tudor Rose Berry from Erica Michaels. I loved this simple little design the minute I saw it and jumped at the chance to buy someone’s chart when she was finished with it (it was a club piece for Dying to Stitch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have decided just to do the center part and make it a biscornu. I am using 32 ct instead of 36 ct and I do not think a berry finish is so charming when it is huge, like big enough to fill your whole hand, especially when the motif is simple. But it will make a great biscornu. I plan to stitch it again on a larger count to make a matching, small, berry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is that it? Yes I think so. Check in with me in a couple weeks and we’ll see what I get done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, July in Arizona. How hot you are. How you sap the energy! We had a very busy week last week, and this week I feel like I’m almost good for nothing! I just wanted to check in with a various projects I’m stitching on, not because it’s interesting, but so I can see where I’m at, and then compare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[61,131,35,132,103],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wips","tag-blackbird-designs","tag-erica-michaels","tag-heirloom-nativity","tag-samplers-not-forgotten","tag-the-victoria-sampler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/d24a2b41-7071-4b2c-a816-d2d0762243cc-3378-00000235bb3741ef_file.jpg?resize=640%2C853&ssl=1\")
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