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Posted by fran on June 21, 2008, 6:39 pm
Working on all my various WIPS. I REFUSE to start another piece until
one is finished!. Having some WIP's is fine. 10 or 12 is *not*!
wrote:
>Let's get back to needlework.
>
>I've got Amy Mitten's Tudor Rose Mystery sampler on the frame.
>http://www.traditionalstitches.com/tudorrose.jpg
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>http://www.emlis.com/amymitten.htm
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>Wonderful silks (Fibres to Dye For)are used with a little bit of
>metallic and some pailettes. This is going to take a fair bit of time
>since there is lots of one over one. It also has lots of blackwork and
>some detached buttonhole stitch which I haven't done before. I have all
>seven parts of the pattern, so I am not doing them in the original
>sequence (the bottom and then the top, and then a middle band); instead
> I started at the bottom as suggested, and then I am going to do the
>band immediately above, and so on. This way, I less likely to misscount.
>
>I've done a couple of her "With the Same M.O." They are a great way to
>practice a specific stitch.
>
>For a break from one over one, I'm going to do Sandy Jenkins' Beehive
>Purse (Stitcher's World, May 2001). This is the one that I stitched as
>a shop model, and want to do again. I've bought enough canvas to do a
>couple, so I'm going to adapt an Anchor sampler that was in one of the
>English magazine that has fish, frogs and birds. These should make
>great Christmas presents for my nieces.
>
>I still haven't found the gold work kit I bought a couple of years ago,
>although I did find (and finish) the stump work kit.
>
>We are off tomorrow to visit my brother, and we are taking some
>daylilies for his garden. We give each other garden stuff for birthdays
>and Christmas. He gave me lily bulbs for Christmas (they arrived in
>May), and I'm giving him the daylilies.
>
>So what are you up to?
>
>MargW
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