Friday, October 8, 2021
Finis!
After stitching in my family's initials clear to midnight last night, I am now officially finished with Christmas Garden!..
Thanks Honeybee for the offer of your skein of Endive, I was able to track down a full skein amongst my WIPs. The lighter gold color on the sampler is CCW Fool's Gold and I ran out of that stitching the last letter of a set of initials. I used a DMC that matched the darker variegation of the floss. Finally I decided to do with the rest of the initials using Calico Kitty since I had quite a bit left over.
So what have I learned stitching this huge sampler? The big thing is stitch on a smaller count. When I first started CG 7 years ago, I hated this fabric. It's 30ct French Vanilla, 2 over 2. My stitches were moving the fabric threads over which I see when I look at it. I'm stitching my mystery SAL on a 36ct and the fabric threads don't move so easily but then on the 36ct, I use just one thread of the floss. I kept hemming and hawing about the fabric I used but it got to late to make a change. It's still gorgeous though!
I got my new SAL stitching caught up and now taking a short breather, lol!
Until next time, stay healthy!
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Oooh it's so beautiful! Congratulations on this huge finish!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Garden looks fab, congrats on a great finish
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the gorgeous finish Shelly.
ReplyDeleteLinda
What a big beautiful finish, Shelly! Congratulations--it is stunning! Hope you are enjoying your weekend ♥
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the Happy Dance for this beauty. I love all the colours, the different motifs and the beautiful lettering at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy a variety of counts, 32 is my standard but I'll use 28 for my Just Nan band samplers so the speciality stitches show up well. I've also got projects on 35 count and 25 (over one).
I like a variety too but mostly 36 just because of using one strand of floss. I recently bought a package off a FB stash selling site. Not knowing it was all 28ct fabrics, nice colors in it and I'll use it all.
DeleteIt turned out quite beautiful. I have been stitching on either 36 or 40. I found that I really like using only one thread. The 32 used to be my go to but I used 2 threads and sometimes it got bulky.
ReplyDeleteThanks Barb. I like stitching with 1 strand too. If I had to stitch Christmas Garden again, I would use a 36 fabric.
DeleteHola Shelly, te escribo desde Alicante, soy aficionada novel al punto de cruz, lo que quiere decir que hago de vez en cuando pero me resulta dificil dejarlo perfecto, por eso cuando veo este trabajo tuyo alucino, y me maravilla, aqui me quedo para ver si aprendo algo, me gusta muchisimo...
ReplyDeletePor cierto, un trabajo de punto de cruz como el tuyo, cuanto tiempo te lleva???
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