Mabel's other stitching 2023
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- Mabel Figworthy
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Mabel's other stitching 2023
The 2022 thread consisted only of Bartram the Rainbow Ram, I noticed - even so, I thought I'd start a fresh thread for a fresh year. My first non-Mabel project is... drum roll.... a very small pear (3cm high including the stalk). It's part of a larger design by Alex Law featured in Stitch magazine, and I just liked the look of it.
Also, even the small trees I'm doing which are based on someone else's drawings may one day become a pack (if they are happy for me to do so), and I really wanted something small, easy, and completely complication-free to take to Cake & Craft this morning (which is doing well, by the way, we now regularly get 18 to 20 people!)
The pear is stitched in laidwork with the laid stitches shaded, a lattice over the top and a stem stitch outline, plus a chain stitch stalk and two lazy daisy leaves, in green, yellow and orange. As usual I didn't get a lot done in the two hours, not helped by starting with the wrong shade of green and having to unpick but here is a start to the shaded laid stitches:
Also, even the small trees I'm doing which are based on someone else's drawings may one day become a pack (if they are happy for me to do so), and I really wanted something small, easy, and completely complication-free to take to Cake & Craft this morning (which is doing well, by the way, we now regularly get 18 to 20 people!)
The pear is stitched in laidwork with the laid stitches shaded, a lattice over the top and a stem stitch outline, plus a chain stitch stalk and two lazy daisy leaves, in green, yellow and orange. As usual I didn't get a lot done in the two hours, not helped by starting with the wrong shade of green and having to unpick but here is a start to the shaded laid stitches:
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
i love your little pear.
Debby
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
I just find the shape curiously satisfying and I love doing that stripy shading
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
My first finish of 2023 the first pic shows the laid stitches complete before all the other stuff was put on; the other two show the difference between direct and indirect sunlight when photographing.
Oh, the little orange stitches at the bottom are not in the original design but I thought they would balance the stalk nicely.
Oh, the little orange stitches at the bottom are not in the original design but I thought they would balance the stalk nicely.
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
Very very nice. I must work harder on getting my laid stitches really close as these are. You've done a super job here, especially the colours and symmetry.
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
There has been some unpicking along the way....
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
I really really really agree! Who would have thought a pear could be so lovely!
Carole
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Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
I really, really, really, really agree.
Debby
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- Mabel Figworthy
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
As I bought the coloured metals and the chenille threads I came across a half-price little felt kit. Postage at this particular shop is a minimum of £5 (which I think is rather steep, but the metals I wanted to buy were also half price and that made it worth it) and adding the little £3 kit didn't push it up any higher so I got it for some relaxed stitching .
I was a bit disappointed with the instructions; it looks very much like an easy kit to get into sewing/stitching, but the stuffing stage was not described at all, attaching the ribbon was mentioned without the key-fob thing (you had to work that out from the picture), and if I didn't know about backstitch I would probably have needed one more step than there was to get it right (also I would have used - did use - double running stitch which makes for a much neater back).
Still, it makes a nice key fob (though rather large); I'll attach it to our back door key so it's easy to find in an emergency
I was a bit disappointed with the instructions; it looks very much like an easy kit to get into sewing/stitching, but the stuffing stage was not described at all, attaching the ribbon was mentioned without the key-fob thing (you had to work that out from the picture), and if I didn't know about backstitch I would probably have needed one more step than there was to get it right (also I would have used - did use - double running stitch which makes for a much neater back).
Still, it makes a nice key fob (though rather large); I'll attach it to our back door key so it's easy to find in an emergency
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
Super cute fob!
Debby
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Book of Mythical Creatures
Cache la Poudre
Past Present Forever
Fishing Friends
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
WIPs
Star Wars Afghan:Chewbaca
HAEDs:
O Kitten Tree
Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
2022 Finished: Star Wars Afghan: Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Finn, Rey, Poe, Han Solo,Darth Vader, BB8,Luke Skywalker
Star Wars Afghan:Chewbaca
HAEDs:
O Kitten Tree
Dancing with the Cat
Everything else "on hold"
2022 Finished: Star Wars Afghan: Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Finn, Rey, Poe, Han Solo,Darth Vader, BB8,Luke Skywalker
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
What I want to know is how exactly you get your double-running stitch to look so even? (Expect it's experience, sigh.)
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
When you see it head on and close-up it's not nearly so even Serinde! But as this isn't RSN Certificate stuff I wasn't going to measure every one of them
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
And now you know why I'd never subject myself to taking a RSN Certificate!Mabel Figworthy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:02 pm But as this isn't RSN Certificate stuff I wasn't going to measure every one of them
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
Visit Mabel's Fancies at www.mabelfigworthy.co.uk
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Elizabethan Beauty, RSN Certificate & Online
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Soli Deo Gloria, Mechthild, bling unicorn, goldwork & silk shading kits
Flights of Fancy (blog)
Mabel's FB page
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Elizabethan Beauty, RSN Certificate & Online
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Soli Deo Gloria, Mechthild, bling unicorn, goldwork & silk shading kits
Flights of Fancy (blog)
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Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
Enjoyed FoF. You make Bondaweb seem to easy... As for all those kits you're taking on a trip where even you say that you'll hardly have time to stitch, well, I totally understand. Have a lovely time.
Re: Mabel's other stitching 2023
Beautiful kits. I always take two or three smaller projects when i travel, one for the plane and one or two more in my luggage. Sometimes I actually get some stitches in.
Debby
(main) WIPs
Angel of Love
Book of Mythical Creatures
Cache la Poudre
Past Present Forever
Fishing Friends
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Angel of Love
Book of Mythical Creatures
Cache la Poudre
Past Present Forever
Fishing Friends