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Slow Stitching
This week I'm participating in an online challenge with the WNS Academy. We are stitching a Victorian sampler. It's been a change of pace to mostly follow instructions. As you may know, that's not my forte! My sampler is not great but then it is a sampler.
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| Victorian Sampler Challenge |
Each day we get a different stitch. The top one is the sheaf stitch. The second day was the beaded chain stitch. I did this one three times. In the image below you can see my two rows of chain stitch using big beads. I made the first row with only 3 strands of embroidery cotton and the embroidery barely showed. It was better in the second attempt when I used all 6 strands.
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| The first two days of the challenge |
For my third attempt at the row of chain stitch, I used smaller beads. Using the smaller beads was better but my line is terribly wonky.
The third day was the tacked herringbone stitch. Day four was the beaded fly stitch. I really enjoyed this one! Today we did the herringbone ladder stitch. I also enjoyed that one but I found out why it's important to make the base back stitches even!
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| Stitch challenge so far |
We have two more stitches to do and then we're supposed to make a pin cushion. Since I've really enjoyed the stitching, I'm considering making the lines of stitching shorter so that the pin cushion will be a practical size.
Nature's Texture - an Online Exhibition
Nature's Texture, an online exhibition of the art made by students of Fleur Woods at Take Two is now available. The exhibition is incredible and I'm so glad to have my piece, Views from Near and Far, included in it.
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| View the exhibition |
My piece is on page 76. In case you don't have the patience to check it out, here is a screenshot of the page.
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What I learned
- The challenge is interesting. The instructions on the video are good but not very thorough. I appreciate being told why certain supplies such as threads are used, etc.
- I'm really not very sociable in these types of events and don't use the facebook spaces.
- I wasn't going to make the pin cushion but now that I'm getting into it, it would be nice to make a better version of these stitches and make something useful.
- It can be difficult finding needles that are big enough for the embroidery thread but small enough for beads. I usually use tiny size 11 or 12 beads with silk thread, but these are too small. I'm glad that I found some slightly larger ones that mostly went though the needle!😁
- Making a piece for the exhibition was a great experience but now I seem to be rudderless. I know that this happens after a big project is finished. I'm just hoping to get back to all of my other projects soon.
Related links
Linking parties
I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties. You may want to check some out!
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Welcome to the I Quilted This! linking party that celebrates quilting on a domestic machine or custom quilting on a long-arm. Feel free to link up and share any recent project, even if you're not quilting it!
Here are the posts that included FMQ, ruler work and walking foot quilting last week. Thanks for linking up 😊 and consider grabbing the button.
Gwyned Trefethen received her thread and is back FMQ her secret mission. I'm sure that we're all looking forward to seeing this lovely secret!
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| Gwyned FMQ her secret mission |
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