Welcome to the Slow Sunday Stitching weekly linkup party! If you like to stitch things by hand, you have found your tribe! Each week there are stitchers around the world who share their projects and progress (or lack thereof) to encourage and inspire us.It has been a very busy week here with getting new shingles on the house during the hottest week of the year. On Monday with the humidity it felt like 44 degrees Celsius - which is 111 degrees Fahrenheit!! But no one fainted or fell off the roof, and somehow they completed the job.
This week I started a Modern Folk Embroidery project called "Quaker Medallion - Bird in a Grapevine". I am using DMC floss #4515 to stitch on Roxy's porcelain 18 count fabric and I'm really enjoying it! It has been fun to experiment with the variegated thread and I'm trying to make the centre bird from the darkest parts of the thread.
I have also being keeping up with the Extraordinary Birds SAL by Lola Crow.
It is such immersive stitching and I am "losing" lots of time in this project! I love the enormous Southern Cassowary bird on the left! So far I have stitched 10,426 stitches which was 98% of the total number of stitches before Friday. This week we were given a new part to stitch and this step includes a Toucan. So fun!What are you hand stitching this week? Please share your projects with us in the link up below!
8 comments:
I love how the cross stitch picture slowly emerges as more stitches are added. It’s like the fog is lifting and you can see more clearly. Stitch on!
I'm so glad to have found my tribe! Your Quaker Medallion piece looks like a lovely one, and I really like the variegated floss you're using, too. I haven't tried a Quaker style design yet, but I sure want to. Enjoy your stitching today, Kathy!
It is so interesting to me that you know the exact number of stitches. I doubt that is something that I will ever know with my work.
I am interested on how you keep track of the number of stitches completed. I probably don’t NEED to know, but I would like to know.
I so appreciate our construction workers who somehow, despite the weather, keep going. Your new project is beautiful. Your SAL is so beautiful – a work of art. I’m embroidering a quilt label, making progress on my Fields of Fancy and looking forward to continue my grandson’s Yoda ornament. Happy Stitching!
Your stitching pieces are fabulous. I've always been interested to know how many stitches I've done in cross stitch so I would also like to know how you keep track of the number of stitches.
This week's heat has really made it hard to get anything physical done. But it's a great excuse to stay inside and stitch! Ohhh, that new quaker looks like it will be very pretty. I love those varigated DMC threads but rarely see them used in projects. I keep the green #4045 in my thread box as a standard "fancy floss" substitute and have used it in a few projects. This month I can totally relate to the excitement of an "emerging picture" when you stitch a detailed project like your bird SAL!
Both projects are really cool. I love the variegated thread you are using on that first one, very pretty.
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