Mabel's SAL

[SusanF]

Lovely work Mabel on both the tiny piece and the hardanger

I do like seeing your projects, thay are always interesting.

[Rose]

Beautiful colors!!!!!

[~threadbear~]

That's so pretty Mabel.
Could you use a tiny needle and try to push the little pokey-out threads behind the stitches at all?

[meerkat]

I do like seeing your projects, thay are always interesting.

Me too.


Not a lot more I can add about the button hole except it's amazing and your latest hardanger is very pretty

[agi]

Fantastic work, Mabel. Not only the stitches, the neatness, but also again and again I have to your wonderful colour-sense. I love these colours together.

[Play Outside]

I love the colors, and the way they stand out against the fabric - creative, and beautiful! What is the stitch around the edge?

[Mabel Figworthy]

It's four-sided edging, and we're discussing the proper way to turn corners in the General section -- it's quite a challenge to keep them neat!

[charmagne_capalad]

Congratulations! You always do amazing projects and take amazing photos, too!

[Mabel Figworthy]

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[Mabel Figworthy]

I've also done some more Hardanger -- light blue DMC pearl cotton on antique white hardanger fabric. My forst overcast bars and diagonal dove's eye filling, and for both I found that it is very diffiult to keep them consistent -- the bars equally narrow or broad, and the squares of the fillings equal size. I hope that this is just a matter of lots of practice. It took me a little while to work out the best route for doing all the fillings, but after about four squares found one that worked well.

I then laboriously poked all the white cut ends into the Kloster blocks with a needle as much as I could -- some are still visible, and a few poked out again after washing and pressing, but it's better than the last one I think.

First picture is before washing and pressing, second after and on a black background.

[JessicaLeigh]

Amazing work, Mabel! I wouldn't worry about the consistency of the bars. They look great, and I know mine would look 10 times worse if I gave it a shot.

[~threadbear~]

I think that's stunning Mabel!

[K1nS]

Stunning work Mabel

[Rose]

Mabel you are amazing!!!!!!!

[burgundyice]

Such delicate, beautiful work!

Louise

[Lessa54]

That is beautiful!

[Nachstenliebe]

Hardanger is so pretty.. It scares me though..
Faith

[Mabel Figworthy]

Some more progress on the tea tray cloth -- managed to get quite a lot done this weekend! (that's one of the reasons I haven't been on the forum ) Am now well on schedule to take this to MIL in February !

[Mabel Figworthy]

Also did some hardanger, and tidied up an earlier square. Remember the one I did on pale green Lugana using Caron threads, and the cut ends were so visible? Well, i've found a method of poking them back in which is a bit labour-intensive but seems to work, so here it is again minus poking ends



And here is a more advanced square I tried, using the same fabric but another shade of Caron thread (this one is called Sunset and I really like it). I cut one fabric thread that I shouldn't have *hyper-ventilate, panic* but managed to disguise it by starting the needleweaving from the end that I hadn't cut *sigh of relief*. See if you can spot it



Oh, I also experimented by mitring the corner while doing 4-sided edging, but although it sort of worked it wasn't actually much neater than the "fold-over" method, and it was fiddlier to do, so I'll write that off as "tried but not worth the effort"

[Sarah Gixxer]

Wow, your hardangar pieces are beautiful, Mabel and I love the colour of the thread. Glad you found a way to poke the cut ends out of sight!

The tray cloth is coming along well too, I will never get over how you can stitch such tiny things!