I worked this cushion from a design in one of the craft books Grandmama gave me (“The Book of Creative Crafts”, it was called, and it included woodwork, screenprinting and candlemaking as well as embroidery, needlepoint and rugmaking), but in my usual somewhat ambitious fashion, I did not restrict myself to a single side. In [...]
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29 Oct 10
15 Oct 10
Emboldened by the combination of fun and applause (admittedly only from my parents at that point!), I moved on to the “Hollyhock House” design from the series of Designs Inspired by Clarice Cliff. Again in two versions, and again I haven’t photographed the tent stitch cushion. Hungarian Stitch is another of my favourites, and you [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches
Tagged canvaswork, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches
12 Oct 10
I’ve always had rather a weakness for Paddington Bear, and this painted canvas caught my eye a few years ago, hanging up in a market stall in Leeds when we were visiting friends. Immediately I saw in my mind’s eye how almost every section could be worked, starting with using rayon thread for the jar [...]
8 Oct 10
This was another early project. It was a DMC painted canvas, which was clearly intended to be done in tent stitch using tapestry wool. As it is eighteen inches by nearly two feet, that would have driven me wild… I bought it almost entirely because I thought I could see a way to get the [...]
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Posted in Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, General Embroidery, Linen Stitch, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches
Tagged canvaswork, General Embroidery, Linen Stitch, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches
28 Sep 10
This design is from a transfer I picked up in a hurry a few years ago so as to have something to stitch while on holiday. It went swimmingly for a while and then ran into a brick wall and I have only just finished it. The threads are wool and cotton, with a little [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery
Tagged General Embroidery, ornamental stitches, stitches, transfers
Tagged General Embroidery, ornamental stitches, stitches, transfers
21 Sep 10
This panel of canvaswork was originally intended to make a case for my husband’s beloved Psion palmtop computer. Alas, by the time I finished it, the Psion was no longer working. The starting point was a wonderful Watercolours thread, graduated in shades of blue (not blue for a boy, blue for a redhead!), to which [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, ornamental stitches, overdyed threads, stitches
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, ornamental stitches, overdyed threads, stitches
13 Aug 10
The design in counted cross stitch that I created, “The Cat Who Walked By Himself” (now being re-issued by Classic Embroidery – remember how excited I was a few months ago?) was such a success that I experimented with other ways in which the basic design might be used. First of all, in ordinary tent [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches, stitches
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches, stitches
28 May 10
This piece arose from my fascination with the knot gardens and parterres of early formal garden design. It began with the octagonal Rhodes Stitch at the centre. I wanted to use the stitch, but not as part of a repeating pattern. In fact it proved much more difficult to get right than I was prepared [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, ornamental stitches, stitches
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, ornamental stitches, stitches
9 Apr 10
By this time I had run out of the fabric I used for the screen, and I was beginning to realize that if I wanted to continue to embroider in this sort of style I would need to find another suitable fabric. I’d enjoyed the Persian Fantasy so much that I didn’t want to do [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Persian Fantasy
Tagged experiments, ornamental stitches, Persian Fantasy
Tagged experiments, ornamental stitches, Persian Fantasy
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