Originally blogged on Monday, 11 April 2005
This project is turning out to be more a test of my photography skills than of my stitching skills…I have found that outside, on a cloudy day, without flash gives the best detail…Today was perfect, a lovely sunny day with high clouds drifting across the sky in front of the sun so you can see most of the detail in the photos of these seams….I also spent some of my day digging in the garden which is starting to look a bit like a garden again….and the first of the pansies that I planted last week is already flowering.
I chose a wide lace for this seam because the dark patch is large and square in shape and was dominating the piece and I wanted to tone it down…you can see how I have placed the wide lace diagonally across the seam so that it changes the angle of the seam as well as covering some of the patch…..The top half of the lace was to be held on by colonial knots over the spots on the fabric covered by the lace, the spots look good on the lace but the edge itself still looked unfinished so I carried the Cretan Stitch all the way around…I used a variegated thread to break up the length of the seam…and you can’t really see them in the photo but each outside stem of the Cretan Stitch is capped with a Fly Stitch sealed with a Colonial Knot.
Feather Stitch variation done by making the stitches parrallel with the seam instead of at an angle. The thread is 4 strands of Madeira Decora Rayon thread, I don’t enjoy stitching with Rayon but I like the way it looks when done, it does help to damp the thread before stitchin…I have trimmed it with Pistil Stich done in metallic thread….Pistil Stitch is a Colonial Knot. but instead of going back through the fabric at the same point as you came up you go down a stitch length away so the the knot has a tail.
Narrow Satin ribbon stitched on with a combination of straight stitches, Colonial Knot. and Herringbone Stitch.
Double Feather Stitch trimmed with Colonial Knot.…Whilst I am supposed to be sticking with reds I could not resist this thread which is variegated from burgundy to green giving just a hint of the green to add variety to the stitching.
Whenever I find lace that is made up of individual flowers I buy a metre or more which gets divided and goes into different dye pots, giving me a good variety of colours and sizes which just need a colonial knot or bead in the centre of each to make a lovley trail …my original selection of flowers for this trail had more darker flowers in it but when I stood back to look at the overall piece the cotton lace on the other seam is pinkish and needed balancing so I brought in the lighter coloured flowers.
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