{"id":6677,"date":"2024-07-12T11:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:22:27","slug":"2-wips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=6677","title":{"rendered":"2 WIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am loving my 2 WIPs, Sacred and Dorcas Haynes. I\u2019ve been able to stitch a lot on them this first week of July. Here is my progress on Sacred\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can see I’ve gotten quite a bit done this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Most Holy Heart of Jesus fountain of every blessing\u2026stitching a prayer is a nice meditative thing to do,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My new colors for the straight border and the gold for the scrolls by the small hearts (which also makes an oval around the large central heart motif) please me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now let me tell you about Dorcas. My assignment this month is the acorn bands and floral arcade band. Yes, I have a handful of queen stitch leaves to finish on the strawberry band, but I will just throw those in when I have a spare hour. My plan for immediate work on Dorcas to keep her going on schedule is to get the outline stitched on the 2 acorn bands before filling in with the satin stitch and detached button holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At first, this band was really hard to figure out. The chart is over 2 and the instructions tell you to do the 4 sided stitch across the bottom over 3 along the horizontal and 2 along the vertical. That was nuts. But then I saw, the acorns themselves are charted over a hybrid over 2\/over 3 backstitched outline…ugh, I just wasn’t having that. I stitched one acorn and it was a mess. It just looked like a mess. I recharted the acorn\/oak leaf motif so the whole thing is over 3 and the count worked out correctly against the 4 sided stitch baseline when that was squared up and done 100% over 3. It will work out, glory hallelujah. I feel like this project is a lot of work and I wonder how others have managed it, so many having stitched this beautiful sampler. Maybe I’m just not advanced enough a stitcher to do it without whining!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got along to the middle of the acorn outline and decided to drop down to work on the large floral arcade. I am starting this band in the middle 1, so the sampler stays centered and symmetrical, and 2 because that blue flower is outlined in normal cross stitch and by this time, boy howdy did I feel like going back to something straightforward that I didn’t have to think about too much. I used the centering from the grapes and strawberries rows to line it up and now that it’s stitched I discovered I’m off center by either 1 thread or 1 stitch, I can’t figure it out. But it is close enough and I doubt anyone will be able to tell when it’s done. If I couldn’t figure it out in the stitching probably it’s ok. I’m telling myself, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of progress! I am not sending a rocket to the moon with this.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So…the flower outlines are nicely in. I still have to figure out the fill stitch for the large flowers and am also eager to fill in the centers with so many French knots. I love the pendulous pansies, those were fun, and I have just gotten started on the stems and vine which are done in Montenegrin stitch. I really really really like Montenegrin stitch. It is not my absolute favorite stitch because I love herringbone and satin stitch even more, but it certainly is satisfying to watch how it comes out. Friends, I cannot recommend enough the Autopsy of the Montenegrin Stitch<\/span> book for doing a band like this. The stitch diagrams in this book show EVERY permutation of direction changes with this complex stitch. I would not be able to do without it. Thank you to Amy Mitten for writing such a magnificent guide. Copies of the book are available at The Attic<\/a> if you need it (along with another invaluable resource, The Proper Stitch<\/span> by Darlene O’Steen, a book which, even in it’s most recent printing is again out of print.) A plug in for my LNS where I work for sure but also a PSA for anyone wishing to benefit from these books and unsure where to get them! The Attic doesn’t have a website you can order directly from so just send an email or fill out the order request form. Ok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written you a nice long boring post. I hope some of you liked reading most of it. Ha! I feel like maybe I’m writing a book about Dorcas bit by bit. Or maybe a stitch guide. Some of you have said me sharing my experience is useful so I will keep it up. That is all the typing I have in me right now. Hopefully I will get some FFOs to share next week so you can have something new to read about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am loving my 2 WIPs, Sacred and Dorcas Haynes. I\u2019ve been able to stitch a lot on them this first week of July. Here is my progress on Sacred\u2026 You can see I’ve gotten quite a bit done this week. O Most Holy Heart of Jesus fountain of every blessing\u2026stitching a prayer is a nice meditative thing to do, […]<\/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":[199,244],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wips","tag-dorcas-haynes","tag-teresa-kogut"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}