{"id":964,"date":"2018-08-09T09:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2018-08-09T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T17:21:10","slug":"new-things-old-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"New Things, Finished Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just couldn’t help myself. I had to start a few more projects! They all came out of my “do in 2018” pile and I figured if I don’t go ahead and get them started in 2018, they don’t even have any hope of being done in 2018! I’ve also been working on more finishing so I have some FFOs to show you too. First, the new starts:<\/p>\n

Lazy Alphabet by La D Da<\/p>\n

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I LOVE this design. It took me a while to decide on the threads. I’m using 3 limited edition Silk N Colors by Thread Gatherer, plus a Gloriana green and a NPI light blue which is the only color called for that I had in my stash.<\/p>\n

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I wanted it to look more like the photo than what is charted, so instead of a true black, I’m using TG’s Blue Lagoon which is a blue-black and is perfect for the effect.<\/p>\n

Next is Angels from Country Cottage.<\/p>\n

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This is a cutie I’ve had awhile and it has been floating around just asking to be stitched. Well, I was sorting fabric and the pattern was laying on top of a stack and what do you know, it looked like a match made in heaven! And I happened to have my DMC binder there too, and I had all colors I needed!<\/p>\n

Here is a start and a finish all in one! Sunflowers by Jeannette Douglas.<\/p>\n

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It is stitched on Twilight by Picture This Plus which honestly is what sold me, the colors are gorgeous. And it was super quick! I will frame it in a mini frame like the model, so sweet!<\/p>\n

And now for the FFOs, all of which were finished ages ago and have only just made it out of the “finished” drawer and into the various small displays I have.<\/p>\n

The oldest one is the Gingerbread Cookie Ornament from Little House Needleworks. I finished stitching it in April 2017 and made it up except for the ruched ribbon trim. This was my first time to ruche ribbon so that’s why I procrastinated the finish-I was learning a new technique so I had to get my head around that. Now it’s really all done!<\/p>\n

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Next oldest is Quaker Birds Pinwheel by Threadwork Primitives. I finished the stitching in October last year. I constructed the pinwheel in November. I had the perfect twill tape-cream with red stitching. But it was too short to make a bow like the model, and almost too short to use at all! I fiddled and fiddled. I got most of the twill tape on. I had just about 3 inches left of it and it was about 5 stitches from FFO as I tried to figure out what to do about ending it off.<\/p>\n

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Then, I had a baby-can I use that excuse? It went on the shelf with the needle poked into it and has sat there since November! After percolating for 8 months I arrived at a solution! I had a perfect red button so I finished off the (tiny) twill bow with that. It’s lovely!<\/p>\n

Next is Homespun Elegance’s Bird N Blossoms Pin Cushion which I stitched in January\/February this year.<\/p>\n

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It is finished with the backing fabric behind it there that I originally intended for Home Sweet Home (next up) before I got the velvet-see how it matches both? I used chenille trim from Lady Dot on it.<\/p>\n

Finally, Home Sweet Home by Abby Rose is backed with Dames of the Needle<\/a> velvet and trimmed with the silk ribbon the designer included with the chart pack.<\/p>\n

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This project is why I needed to learn ruched ribbon- I did the Gingerbread Cookie ornament in case there was a big learning curve (there wasn’t). I didn’t like the included backing fabric so I found this mauve one with the floral spots. It was fine and I’m glad I got it because it went well so well with Bird N Blossoms, but I still put off the finish.\u00a0 Then I found this beautiful matching velvet and the plan changed again.<\/p>\n

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See? Perfect! I should mention also that I changed the floss color of the blues and grays used in this design to coordinate better with each other and the ribbon-my dye lots were totally different than the ones used for charting. It was all stitched with GAST but you know, sometimes those colors can vary a great deal. However you can see that it all worked out very well and all my various materials match up which makes me very happy!<\/p>\n

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I’m so glad I waited on this finish. It came out perfectly. It wouldn’t have been as nice had I just finished it off right away. So while it’s a good habit to just get things done, I think in this case letting them rest and “percolate” was just the best way to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just couldn’t help myself. I had to start a few more projects! They all came out of my “do in 2018” pile and I figured if I don’t go ahead and get them started in 2018, they don’t even have any hope of being done in 2018! I’ve also been working on more finishing so I have some FFOs […]<\/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":[44,73,49,59],"tags":[71,78,41,13,68],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-ornaments","category-finished-2018","category-finishing-techniques","category-wips","tag-abby-rose-designs","tag-country-cottage-needleworks","tag-la-d-da","tag-little-house","tag-threadwork-primatives"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}