Tuesday, 23 December 2014

White snowdrop sample - cutting out and making up

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Happy holidays everyone! I'd wanted to get this finished before the festivities and have just made it, so here we go. You know the d...
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Friday, 19 December 2014

White snowdrop sample - filling in

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Quite a lot of stitching but none of it very interesting, so I'll cover it all in the one post.  Still using the same colour, I've f...
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Sunday, 14 December 2014

White snowdrop sample - outline

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For this I'm only using one colour: white: That's Madeira stranded cotton no. 2401. Part of the outline in split stitch (agai...
Thursday, 11 December 2014

White snowdrop sample

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Same design, slightly different approach.  This time, I want to see how it works in white-on-white.  I'll be using the same cut-out-and-...
Saturday, 6 December 2014

Silver snowdrop sample - completed

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With the snowdrop cut out, I needed to stitch it to a background fabric, but as this is an experiment, I decided to try a completely differe...
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Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Silver snowdrop sample - cutting out

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And now the bit I've really not been looking forward to: cutting it out.  It's quite a fiddly design with quite a few skinny bits, s...
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Sunday, 30 November 2014

Silver snowdrop sample - the snowdrops

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Another ghastly photo, but hopefully you can more or less tell that I've finished the satin stitch for the upper leaves and  around the ...