stitching

I'm doing some blogging that is being posted on Janet Burnett's blog and decided to go ahead and add them to my site also. I keep saying that I'm going to do a better job of blogging but to be really honest, I'd rather stitch than type. If you don't know Janet is the owner of A Collection of Designs. I love her canvases and was really excited when she asked me to blog about what I'm doing. Please bear with me as I learn to post pictures, etc. to this blog.

Here's what I sent Janet today about the stitching of her design ACOD 2614. I'll also be posting about other things I'm stitching for other designers.

6/27/11
It was late one night earlier this week and I was in the middle of a movie, when I finished the piece I was stitching on. I didn't want to run around and find another piece to stitch and this was sitting there on stretcher bars just waiting for me to pull threads. I ran into the stitching room during the commercial and pulled two DMC Flosses for the border, thinking that would keep me busy until the end of the movie and I would pull the rest in the morning and then blog about what I was doing. I finished the border just as the movie ended.

The next morning I got up and just didn't want to go to the computer, so I thought: Okay, I'll just stitch some and then blog about it later. I went into the stitching room and pulled a few threads (my threads are semi organized, with Elfa drawers holding Rainbow Gallery turned on their sides, so I can see the colors and the Kreinik in a big drawer, I actually have a DMC spinner rack with the entire line of DMC Floss on it). So my pulling consists of going through those drawers and looking at the rack and basically, just putting things that I think might work in a bag with the canvas. I sat down to watch stuff on tape. Well, the next thing I knew the piece was almost done, I only needed the trees and the purple. I borrowed the Neon Rays from the candy cane with the light bulbs I talked about earlier. I wanted to use Flair for the purple stripes, light bulb and triangles but didn't have any in the stash. I did have Frosty Rays that was purple. I used that and removed the inside core. I've done this before and actually used the core thread and the outside as two separate threads in one piece.

I love his knit scarf and gloves. I don't know if you can tell from the picture but I have this thing about noses on snowmen. If the snowman is facing you the nose should stick out, like a carrot would on a real snowman, so I came up with a stitch that gives some dimension, it's a pistol stitch and then you come up at the outside and go down through the middle on at least 3 different sides to make it stand up. The nose at least sticks out some.

I had so much fun with this piece, I finished him in about 6 hours. I thought my broom handle came out pretty good, I blended the two flosses from the borders to make it. Hope you'll have fun looking at him.

I really wish we had some cooler weather, these 99 degree days are awful. We need rain really bad. One of the ladies in my water aerobics class was saying that she is having to sell off the last of her cattle because her spring has dried up. People here are leaving buckets of water for the deer because our pond is almost gone.

Well, back to stitching. I'll try to post more regularly.

Cindy