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I am stitching up a project for a sweet baby boy that has just been born. We had a cowboy themed baby shower earlier this summer for his mom and it really inspired me to make a cowboy themed hand embroidery pattern set. I am so glad I did because now I am embroidering a project for his nursery. I started by putting together several of the motifs from the Cowboy pattern packet and transferred them onto this beautiful linen fabric:
I have done some of the stitching but now I am re-thinking the floss color I am using for the rope. I had used the variegated floss you see on the left and I liked it until I was done. Looking at it, I realized it wasn't going to be a good match with the other strong colors in this project...
such as the red I am using for the name. So I switched to this brown and I am so much happier with it. I am thinking I will use silver metallic thread for these horse shoes you can see above the name:
they will match the spur I have already done on his boot:
The baby's nursery is all done in barn red, brown, blues and cream. I hope these colors will be perfect!
I am in the process of organizing all my embroidery floss. I really like to see how beautiful it looks neatly stored in these plastic floss boxes. I have a small bunch of skeins still left to wind up on their bobbins.
I was looking at the order of colors on my color wheel and I decided to arrange my floss in that order. Such a nice collection! It looks like I have a lot of floss and a good color selection doesn't it? Well...
..during my organizing, I came across this list that I picked up from the fabric store quite a long time ago.
It lists all the floss color numbers that DMC offers. There is even a check list to mark off the colors you have. Imagine my surprise when I checked off all of my floss and realized that I have 89 different colors - wow! But that is out of a possible 454!!! I have only tried about 20% of their colors.
I find I tend to buy the same colors over and over. I need to branch out - I would love to collect the whole list of colors. I wonder about any of you? Do you keep track of your floss colors and does anyone have a whole color collection?
One of the projects on my list of works-in-progress is the Laura Wheeler vintage pattern for a dog. Do you remember this? I have the doggy put together and the next step is to add his nose. I have cut the nose pattern piece out of this nice black fabric. You only need one piece. I am a little concerned about attaching this because the only instruction on the pattern piece or direction sheet is to "sew up dart" where indicated - nothing about turning the raw edges under or stitching it in place on the dog! I think I can probably figure it out...
I used this pink fabric for his tongue. I am remembering to put a sample of each of my fabrics in my sewing journal
and of course to record all the details of the pattern!
I will make sure to post a picture when I finish this - I still need to find eyes and a ribbon.
I have a new hand embroidery pattern packet available. This one is called Seafood. There are so many images in this packet. I am having a lot of fun planning out all the different stitching projects I want to do.
I have already stitched this anchor and waves. I used double rows of stitching for the waves. One row in blue back stitch and then a row above that in white chain stitch. I think the double rows really add some dimension and texture.
I am also working on this lobster and some text. Do you see the double knot stitch? It has to be one of my favorite stitches. I did the heart in chain stitch
I have a lot more stitching planned!
Here is a picture of the pattern packet :
Time for another 100 Stitches post! This beautiful stitch is the Hemstitch with Coral Stitch Clusters.
This stitch is in the Drawn Thread Embroidery category. That means the area to be stitched has to be prepared by drawing out the horizontal threads. You can read about the process I learned on my first Drawn Thread post. I started by preparing my fabric and doing the hemstitch on the top and bottom of the stitching area. Doing the hemstitch makes distinct groups out of the vertical threads. They are much easier to work with! I am using perle cotton floss - this is size 5 DMC#351.
The first step is to come up through the fabric at the right side of the area to be stitched. Pull the floss all the way through:
Pull the floss all the way to the left so that it is laying across the area to be stitched:
Bring the needle around to the right side, leaving part of it laying across the area to be stitched...this will be the start of a loop:
Slip the needle behind three of the groups of vertical threads - notice the needle also went under the working thread but is now coming out over the working thread - see how this is beginning to form a loop?
Pull all the way through :
Pulling all the way through draws the three groups together. Just continue the same way with all the vertical groups. I just went back into the fabric at the left edge of the stitching area and secured my thread underneath.
This is what the underside of the stitching looks like:
Beautiful! This is a really easy stitch once the preparation work is done.
This is stitch number 78 and is in the Drawn Thread Embroidery section of 100 Stitches.
Remember this wip? I am still working on it - I updated it here and now I have some new progress to report. All the olive leaves are stitched, I used the fishbone stitch. I finally selected a green to use for the branch. I had this spool in my floss box but without a number! I think it is close to DMC 966, it is a sage green with a bit of a yellow undertone. Do you like the stitching for the branch? It is parallel lines of split stitch.
I think it goes beautifully with the purple, this is DMC #208. I am filling in the olives with concentric circles of back stitching.
It also sets off the leaves nicely. I still need to fill in all the olives, stitch the other branch and wash out my marker lines. Then of course, iron this wrinkly fabric!
I will be sure to post a picture when this is finished.
The beautiful weather we have had this summer has been nice! I have enjoyed it so much, especially with this sweet friend:
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I do love to see what blooms this time of year, my sunflowers:
white dahlia:
I have also enjoyed home grown tomatoes!
All these beautiful colors are making me think of some sunflower projects I would like to stitch:
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