Somehow, progress on the Petite Pincushion accelerated hugely once the silkwork was finished. Each separate metal element (except the border!) proved to be fairly quick to do, and as I’ve already said, I enjoyed them immensely. The next elements of the Petite Pincushion were the four spots of Eight Sided Interlacing in silver – so, [...]
Browsing the blog archives for February, 2012
28 Feb 12
24 Feb 12
The cultivation on the Map of Amarna will take quite a while to do, but since I’m really quite happy with the progress it is making, I thought I would post a quick update on it. The scatter of tête de boeuf stitches is as much as I have managed to do since I finally [...]
21 Feb 12
The diagram in the instructions listed the goldwork stitches from the centre outwards, so that is the order in which I decided to work them. The detached buttonhole stitch at the centre was worked in a very fine silver thread. It was terrifyingly lively and had a will of its own, which made it hard [...]
17 Feb 12
I’ve had a blog award passed on to me – thank you, Karen of Stitching Life. When given this award: 1. Thank the giver and link back to their blog. 2. Reveal your 5 top picks and leave a comment on their blog. 3. Copy and paste the award onto your blog. 4. Have faith [...]
14 Feb 12
Born teacher that she is, Tricia provided two additional projects with the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass. After all, practice makes perfect, and practice is much more palatable when it produces something pretty at the end. The silkwork of the Petite Pincushion is primarily worked in queen stitches. As you may have gathered, I’m not [...]
10 Feb 12
I’m really not at all sure what to do with this. It’s an abandoned experiment that I recently rediscovered, and which is nagging me more than somewhat! I really should finish it, or do something with it. It was originally intended to be a traycloth, and I’ve also run out of the thread I was [...]
7 Feb 12
The central veins of the leaves here are in Guilloche Stitch, and in one case I have have used the “imitation silver” thread and in the other case, one of the other, very fine silver threads. This shows – if we needed it pointed out, at this stage – that all metal threads are not [...]
3 Feb 12
About fifteen years ago I was going through one of those periods of penury that we are all subject to, so Christmas presents and birthday presents became rather a challenge – usually solved by making something, with varying degrees of success. This coaster was made for my grandfather, based on a version of the merchant [...]
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