Weekly progress.

 

I have decided to take a break from Facebook for a while. This will end up being shared to my personal page, but I will not see or respond to any comments. If you want to comment you can do so on my blog post so that I can monitor what comments show.

So, here is what I’ve been working on for the last week.

  This is the Medieval Tapestry that I am testing for Natalia Frank. I am stitching it on 60 count silk gauze with Soie Surfine and Gloriana Tudor for the red background.

This is also designed by Natalia Frank. It is called Love is (aka romantic picture). also being stitched on 60 count gauze with Soie Surfine.

This is the Lazy Afternoon wall hanging by Nicola Mascall. Being stitched on 60 count silk gauze with Soie Surfine. This one is going to be progressing more slowly because I want to finish the tapestry first.

Here are a few other things I been working on as well.

Some of the smaller knitting I’ve been doing (besides the adult size sweater that is a test knit and can’t show till the pattern is published). This design is by Sharon de Vries. The pattern is called Vicky for Bonnie Babe. I have knit it with Aurifil 50 cotton thread on 1 mm needles. Yes, the panties still need a silk ribbon, and the dress needs some blocking and a button at the back neck. I also still need to knit the bonnet and bib, but I decided to first try out the new silk thread I just got, Kimono silk thread by Superior  Threads.

This is also a design by Sharon de Vries called Ashley. It is being knit with the Kimono silk thread on 0.7mm needles. I need to knit the petticoat now which needs to be added at this point before knitting the bodice.I have no idea what size dollhouse doll will fit this. We’ll see when it is finished.

One larger item that I started many years ago and that I finally decided to set up so that I can work on it a bit every day in the hopes that it will eventually get done is this large design called Konstantinopel Hamam Mandala by Chatelaine designs.It uses a lot of different stitches, threads as well as different beads. It is fun to stitch, it just got put aside when I got into miniature stitching.

This is just the center part of it and I am stitching it on 28 count black linen with most of the cross stitches over 2. I turned it 90 degrees for the picture, the top of the center design is actually the point at the top right.

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