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Posted by anne on July 22, 2006, 6:31 pm
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to take a class with Rosalie Peters.
Even though painting on canvas isn't my thing and I was dreading covering the
large space with tent or gobelin stitches, I couldn't resist the cost which was
a mere $20 for supplies. Due to an unexpected windfall, my EGA chapter picked
up her fee, travel expenses, etc.
My canvas confirmed that I don't have an artist eye or even a regular, sharp
eye that can see details and shading as I tried to reproduce the look of the
spray of flowers. Despite this shortcoming, I learned something -- instead of
using several different paint colors that go from dark to light, start painting
with a color that approximates the darkest shade. Then add drops of white,
ecru, or light yellow to the tiny cup to create the other shades needed to
paint each flower.
BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few
'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was
stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and
other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by
the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other
was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch
because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it
quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the
variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines
on
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<http://needlepoint.org/StitchOfTheMonth/2003/aug.php>
In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open
space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one place
to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show
through.
Cutting to the chase, can someone point me to an online site or a book that
diagrams this stitch? Being quite dense when it comes to following a pattern, I
need a picture accompanied by text that says insert needle at 1, come up three
threads over at 2, etc.
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Posted by lucretia borgia on July 22, 2006, 6:54 pm
and entertained us with
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>Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to take a class with Rosalie Peters.
>Even though painting on canvas isn't my thing and I was dreading covering the
>large space with tent or gobelin stitches, I couldn't resist the cost which was
>a mere $20 for supplies. Due to an unexpected windfall, my EGA chapter picked
>up her fee, travel expenses, etc.
>My canvas confirmed that I don't have an artist eye or even a regular, sharp
>eye that can see details and shading as I tried to reproduce the look of the
>spray of flowers. Despite this shortcoming, I learned something -- instead of
>using several different paint colors that go from dark to light, start painting
>with a color that approximates the darkest shade. Then add drops of white,
>ecru, or light yellow to the tiny cup to create the other shades needed to
>paint each flower.
>BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few
>'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was
>stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and
>other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by
>the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other
>was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch
>because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it
>quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the
>variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines
>on
>In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open
>space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one place
>to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show
>through.
>Cutting to the chase, can someone point me to an online site or a book that
>diagrams this stitch? Being quite dense when it comes to following a pattern, I
>need a picture accompanied by text that says insert needle at 1, come up three
>threads over at 2, etc.
Have you tried classicstitches.com in their glossary? There are a
couple of Trellis but I think this is maybe the one you mean.
http://www.classicstitches.com/know_how/know_how.cfm?how_to_id=259&how_to_cat=Stitch%20Glossary&let=T
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Posted by lucretia borgia on July 22, 2006, 7:44 pm
and entertained us with
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>Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to take a class with Rosalie Peters.
>Even though painting on canvas isn't my thing and I was dreading covering the
>large space with tent or gobelin stitches, I couldn't resist the cost which was
>a mere $20 for supplies. Due to an unexpected windfall, my EGA chapter picked
>up her fee, travel expenses, etc.
>My canvas confirmed that I don't have an artist eye or even a regular, sharp
>eye that can see details and shading as I tried to reproduce the look of the
>spray of flowers. Despite this shortcoming, I learned something -- instead of
>using several different paint colors that go from dark to light, start painting
>with a color that approximates the darkest shade. Then add drops of white,
>ecru, or light yellow to the tiny cup to create the other shades needed to
>paint each flower.
>BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few
>'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was
>stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and
>other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by
>the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other
>was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch
>because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it
>quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the
>variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines
>on
>In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open
>space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one place
>to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show
>through.
>Cutting to the chase, can someone point me to an online site or a book that
>diagrams this stitch? Being quite dense when it comes to following a pattern, I
>need a picture accompanied by text that says insert needle at 1, come up three
>threads over at 2, etc.
There is also this link. I would think you would find both easy to
follow, they are colour coded and pretty much self explanatory. There
is a third, more a needlelace filler and I don't believe that is what
you would be looking for.
http://www.classicstitches.com/know_how/know_how.cfm?how_to_id=258&how_to_cat=Stitch%20Glossary&let=T
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Posted by gyrlcentric on July 23, 2006, 1:56 am
anne wrote:
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>snip<
> BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few
> 'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was
> stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and
> other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by
> the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other
> was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch
> because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it
> quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the
> variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines
> on
> In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open
> space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one place
> to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show
> through.
>snip<
this site,
https://needleartworks.anonwebhost.com/stm/stpage/trellis.htm, has
diagrams. not exactly what you were looking for but perhaps helpful
nontheless.
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Posted by lucretia borgia on July 23, 2006, 7:47 am
rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote:
and entertained us with
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>anne wrote:
>>snip<
>> BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few
>> 'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was
>> stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and
>> other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by
>> the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other
>> was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch
>> because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it
>> quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the
>> variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines
>> on
>> In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open
>> space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one
place
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>> to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show
>> through.
>>snip<
>this site,
>https://needleartworks.anonwebhost.com/stm/stpage/trellis.htm, has
>diagrams. not exactly what you were looking for but perhaps helpful
>nontheless.
My system rang bells and sent a security warning when I went to open
that link.
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