Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party! We invite you to settle in for some relaxation, visit our inspiring stitchers at the links below, and take some time to put a few stitches in one of your favourite projects.
This week I finished stitching the unique animals in the Needlework Press "Gather Together" which is a collection of 9 unusual animals (patterns from antique samplers). I worked on this project while watching the Blue Jays world series and it helped to bring me joy even though they lost the last game! I think I will finish it into a little wallhanging to use for Thanksgiving.
My full coverage project also got some attention this week and is almost at 10% of the total stitches. This is a Heaven and Earth Design pattern called Mini Treasure Hunt Bookshelf stitched on 25 count easy grid lugana. There are lots of blank places across the top of the design until I decide if I am going to use white threads or Kreinik threads which would be prettier and sparkly, but which I detest stitching with. Maybe I'll put in some stitches in both options and see which I think looks best. Today I'll be working on binding a quilt for the quilt guild. It will be a relaxing and enjoyable task - my favourite mindless hand stitching!
What are you hand stitching today? Link up your slow progress below!
6 comments:
The Gather Together cross stitch is a lovely finish. There's lots of vibrant colours in the Mini Treasure Hunt Bookshelf pretty. I'm not a fan of cross stitching with sparkly threads either.
Gather together is perfect to display at Thanksgiving. Your full coverage piece is looking great. I hate stitching with sparky threads too. This is definitely a slow stitching project ! Enjoy hand stitching that binding.
Your latest finish is lovely. I agree with you about the Kreinik threads, nice to look at, hard to stitch with!!
Gather Together is a really pretty design - I like all those animals! You're making good progress on the full coverage piece, too. What is it about sparkly threads? I tried a silver floss once and won't be doing that again either. Have a wonderful Sunday stitching that binding, Kathy!
I agree, the Kreinik threads are so pretty but they are not pleasant to use!
The quilt you are stitching the binding on for the guild is cute. Gotta love 4-patches. Binding used to be one of my least favorite parts to the quilt. I liked it so little and started to sew bindings on by machine for YEARS. Now (with the help of your blog), I have sharpened my skills enough to enjoy binding! In fact, I am constantly looking for projects that have been UFOs for years to finish them so that I can sit under a quilt during this time of year in the evenings while watching tv.
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