Tuesday, 27 May 2008
An Autumn Finish
I've finished Autumn Leaves and am very happy with it, I enjoyed it so much I was about to dive right into Winter Wind but restrained myself :(

Luckily, winter starts this Sunday ;)



Autumn Leaves
Designer: Prairie Schooler
Fabric: 28# Vintage Country Mocha
Threads: DMC

I made a few changes to the design, I left off the bird above the house and the numbers on the grass and added the moon and pumpkin motifs from other parts of the chart.

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posted by Karen at 07:12 | 4 comments
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
An Autumn Start
I've started Autumn Leaves for this seasons project and it's stitching up faster than I thought! I think I'll finish the stitching this season, but I don't think I'll be able to finish it off to display though (those skills still need work!).



It's worked on 28# Vintage Country Mocha linen with the recommended DMC threads and I changed the centre to picture to one from the Autumn Foursome on the same chart as I like it better.


I've just joined the blogging world at http://athreadstale.blogspot.com/ . I've enjoyed seeing other people's work so much in 2007 I thought maybe I should share a little bit of my own.

Karrie

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posted by Karen at 07:54 | 1 comments
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Autumn Medley
I was going to change the frame colour to Black like the sample photo of this chart.
But this is a ready-made frame and there were glass which I couldn't take off, so didn't change the colour...
So this frame colour is just as it was...
Actually this ready-made frame is for Japanese art, like below...
It says... "Go for your dream..." something like that in Japanese, with 8 small birds. isn't it cute??

By the way, there were blank areas at both top and bottom of this stitched piece, when I put it into this frame.
I thought a lot what to do next... and a few ideas were floating in my mind, I didn't know whether it would be sucseed or not, but I have just tried!

There were about 3cm depth in this frame, so I made the two lines with small pine cones for these blank area .
Why didn't I just put (glued) them on the stitched piece???

I'm typically a fickle person (lol), so I will definitely change my mind someday in the near future!
That's why I made this as easily attached or removed. LOL

I know myself well! lol
I added them this time, but sometimes I felt like attaching linen laces on it, I can easily remove these pine cones! (lol)
It's a nice idea, isn't it?!


Well, here is a close up photo of this "Autumn Medley".

I wanted to change the frame colour, but it's still nice in a natural colour frame, don't you think so? There are so many kind of oblong designs © Heart in Hand, so I think it would be nice to add some seasonal designs and change it when the next season has come!



"Autumn Medley" © Heart in Hand
32ct Belfast Linen (Platinum)

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posted by Yuko at 08:18 | 4 comments