Jo's stitching 2021

[fccs]

I love the mice and am looking forward to seeing your Enchantress.

[Steam.Jo]

The birds have been given their Christmas morning breakfast, beyond my chart frame you can see the log fire is buring:



You can also see the area of the piece i have been working on:



I am enjoying this one . Like the other Gold collection items it is a mix of stitch types, numbers of strands in each stitch and a few mixed coloured strands stitch types so I will have to be on my toes.

Merry Christmas everyone

Jo

[Serinde]

You have made a marvellous start! Merry Christmas to you, too!

[rcperryls]

A wonderful and beautiful start to what is sure to be a fantastic project.

Merry Christmas to you too!!

Carole

[Mabel Figworthy]

Great stitching spot, very cosy and comfy, and a good start!

[Squirrel]

A colourful start to this interesting design.

[Roland]

Those colours a lovely. Nice start to a new project.

[Steam.Jo]

Thank you

Coming to the end of the Christmas weekend I thought I should give you another update on this piece:



I had been getting very concerned about how much edge is going to be left around the piece for mounting. I have just reached the far left hand edge and its a bit tight

Jo

[Nicola Main]

Oh Jo it's looking fantastic! I really hope you have enough edge left for framing

[Serinde]

Ach, you'll be fine with that edge... It's steaming along!

[wendywombat]

Ach, you'll be fine with that edge... It's steaming along!

I'm always surprised how little 'extra' fabric is needed for mounting.
Maybe there's a conspiracy between designers and fabric suppliers to get us to buy more than we really need!!

[rcperryls]

Ach, you'll be fine with that edge... It's steaming along!

I'm always surprised how little 'extra' fabric is needed for mounting.
Maybe there's a conspiracy between designers and fabric suppliers to get us to buy more than we really need!!

I agree! And it's hard to get passed that feeling that the piece of fabric isn't going to be quite big enough

Carole

[fccs]

Wow, look what you've done already! It's going to be beautiful.

Dimensions usually leaves a rather small border for framing, but you can always attach more fabric to the edges if needed when it's time for the framing. What I usually do is cut/tape pieces of paper together to match the size of the stitched piece and lay that on the fabric, centered, just to make sure there's enough room on all edges.