Saturday, July 29, 2006
Shoe Lace Trick
Below is square motif in blue tatted the conventional way and the same motif in pink using the Shoe lace Trick.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Lady in Embroidery
As I already mentioned in my previous post, I have quite a few incomplete projects.
I think I'll follow most of you and list them so I can tick them off my list as and when I complete them. There are projects from nearly 2 years ago.
1. I started this sampler wanting to use atleast 100 embroidery stitches. It is 3/4th done. This is the oldest project.
2. I started a pineapple crochet doily last year, and I stopped at round 11. It has 34 rounds. I picked it up again a week ago and I put it down at round 30 last night.
Hope to complete it during the middle of next week.
3. The basic crochet lessons I started updating is still in its rough draft stage.
4.Same goes for the Basic tatting lessons. I want to incorporate CTM, SLT, Knotless tatting etc without overwhelming a beginner. Below is square motif in blue, tatted the conventional way and the same motif in pink using the Shoe lace Trick.
5. I have plenty of embroidery designs that were passed on to me by my grandmother. Needless to say, the papers are either breaking or are falling apart. She has used tissue that silk sarees and footwear came in as tracing paper. God knows how old those papers are. I am darkening them and scanning them so I can store them on CD.
6. Same goes for some of the old DMC embroidery books I inherited from her.
7. Same goes for my collection of Kutchwork designs. But they are only 15 years old.
8. Then there are a couple of incomplete overambitious cross stitch projects I started on canvas. One measures 5' x 3' and the other 3'x 2'.
9. I have atleast 10 sew projects in various stages.
10. I am yet to draft the Lagartera project I posted earlier this month.
11. My Kasuti tutorial is incomplete.
12. My latest incomplete work is the 50 Borders in Lagartera embroidery and of course charting them.
13. My scanner is still not installed.
I think I'll follow most of you and list them so I can tick them off my list as and when I complete them. There are projects from nearly 2 years ago.
1. I started this sampler wanting to use atleast 100 embroidery stitches. It is 3/4th done. This is the oldest project.
2. I started a pineapple crochet doily last year, and I stopped at round 11. It has 34 rounds. I picked it up again a week ago and I put it down at round 30 last night.
Hope to complete it during the middle of next week.
3. The basic crochet lessons I started updating is still in its rough draft stage.
4.Same goes for the Basic tatting lessons. I want to incorporate CTM, SLT, Knotless tatting etc without overwhelming a beginner. Below is square motif in blue, tatted the conventional way and the same motif in pink using the Shoe lace Trick.
5. I have plenty of embroidery designs that were passed on to me by my grandmother. Needless to say, the papers are either breaking or are falling apart. She has used tissue that silk sarees and footwear came in as tracing paper. God knows how old those papers are. I am darkening them and scanning them so I can store them on CD.
6. Same goes for some of the old DMC embroidery books I inherited from her.
7. Same goes for my collection of Kutchwork designs. But they are only 15 years old.
8. Then there are a couple of incomplete overambitious cross stitch projects I started on canvas. One measures 5' x 3' and the other 3'x 2'.
9. I have atleast 10 sew projects in various stages.
10. I am yet to draft the Lagartera project I posted earlier this month.
11. My Kasuti tutorial is incomplete.
12. My latest incomplete work is the 50 Borders in Lagartera embroidery and of course charting them.
13. My scanner is still not installed.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Cluny Leaf in Tatting
I finally won my battle with making Cluny leaves. After several failed attempts, I managed to make a cluny leaf that closed right. I even managed this butterfly with 8 cluny leaves in it. Cant’t say they are perfect – each leaf turned out a different size and shape. I told myself that is how it is in nature.
Huh! What language is this? The butterfly was tempting. I just had to try it out. How hard could it be to follow instructions? Art has no language right? RIGHT! I decided to give it a try.
O = is obviously a ring
C = chains
- we know stands for picots and
+ a join
o / = split rings and therefore
c / must be split chains
I copied and pasted the first line of of the pattern page (which I now know is in German) in google search as I did not know the link to this pattern. I found there is an option to translate this page. Hmm... After all the struggle to decipher what the instructions said!
Several wrong closings of the Cluny leaf (and a couple of times of pulling the thread so tight that it snapped) later, I went back to check if there is some specific method to close the leaf. There is – I just assumed I knew when I didn’t.
I had to start afresh a couple of times and the result is the butterfly in the picture. I did not leave a length of yarn at the beginning to join fresh yarn for making the split chain and so I decided to cheat. I sewed the butterfly onto the denim base and worked the body in weaving stitch. A Single ring for the head and the butterfly looked natural complete with feelers.
I added a few leaves in weaving stitch, the carpet of grass in detached buttonhole, a few sequins and beads for field flowers. Not too satisfied with the pink beads. So I added a couple of flowers in the same shade and it blended with the yellow of the butterfly. Very few colours are available in pearl cotton. So I decided to try stranded cotton for the flowers. It worked. But I only had two small lengths of yarn (stranded Cotton) in that particular shade of pink and so I compromised on the number of picots in the last ring of both flowers. While I can't say the finished piece is wonderful, it is not so bad either. I might make this the focal point of my first ever CQ block that I plan to do in shades of blue.
Huh! What language is this? The butterfly was tempting. I just had to try it out. How hard could it be to follow instructions? Art has no language right? RIGHT! I decided to give it a try.O = is obviously a ring
C = chains
- we know stands for picots and
+ a join
o / = split rings and therefore
c / must be split chains
I copied and pasted the first line of of the pattern page (which I now know is in German) in google search as I did not know the link to this pattern. I found there is an option to translate this page. Hmm... After all the struggle to decipher what the instructions said!
Several wrong closings of the Cluny leaf (and a couple of times of pulling the thread so tight that it snapped) later, I went back to check if there is some specific method to close the leaf. There is – I just assumed I knew when I didn’t.
I had to start afresh a couple of times and the result is the butterfly in the picture. I did not leave a length of yarn at the beginning to join fresh yarn for making the split chain and so I decided to cheat. I sewed the butterfly onto the denim base and worked the body in weaving stitch. A Single ring for the head and the butterfly looked natural complete with feelers.
I added a few leaves in weaving stitch, the carpet of grass in detached buttonhole, a few sequins and beads for field flowers. Not too satisfied with the pink beads. So I added a couple of flowers in the same shade and it blended with the yellow of the butterfly. Very few colours are available in pearl cotton. So I decided to try stranded cotton for the flowers. It worked. But I only had two small lengths of yarn (stranded Cotton) in that particular shade of pink and so I compromised on the number of picots in the last ring of both flowers. While I can't say the finished piece is wonderful, it is not so bad either. I might make this the focal point of my first ever CQ block that I plan to do in shades of blue.
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