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It's absolutely fantastic, I love those purples, and your basket is growing so beautifully!

Absolutely gorgeous Kell, I especially like the April one

Slinky wrote:Kell, your biscornu are beautiful. I adore the latest one especially Is it your own design?

It's from Blackwork Journey - the pattern is called Lilac Time and is originally shown in shades of lilac (as you'd expect with that name), but I went with raspberry tones instead.

It's stitched on 25-count evenweave from a Polstitches grab bag in, I suspect, rhubarb and custard, but the picture doesn't realy show off the colours, which are pinky-yellowy tones and look beautiful. The raspberry floss colours (all DMC) go particularly well with it which is why I went wit those colours rather than the lilacs (I have some lovely lilac threads I had originally planned to use for this design, but they didn't look so good with the fabric and I switched shades at the last minute).

It was a really lovely stitch. Back and front are the same design, but the side panels I just did off the top of my head and one of the four has "Kell, April 2010" on it instead of the pattern - they'll all have my name, the month and the year on them so I'll always know when they were stitched if I'm ever asked.

Play Outside wrote:These are very cool. I love all the different colors...it's like a box of candy!

THat's really funny, because I thought the exact samething when I took the photo yesterday! And, in fact, the "basket" I'm now using was from an Easter Egg, but the first one I used (which was splaying out too much to continue using) was actually from a box of chocolates - LOL!

kell wrote:

Slinky wrote:Kell, your biscornu are beautiful. I adore the latest one especially Is it your own design?

It's from Blackwork Journey - the pattern is called Lilac Time

Thanks for that . I had already downloaded it but didn't recognise the design stitched up like that. It really does make a beautiful biscornu.

That's beautiful and I love the colours you've chosen

It's funny just how different the same design can look stitched in different colours or used for a different finish.

very pretty

Really lovely

Such a great project, this one is another triumph!

Wow a real basket of delicious goodies!! The latest addition is really pretty!

I love the way that the different designs make the same basic shape look so different.

Aprills looks great Kell. They all look great together.

Another beautiful biscornu. Lovely colours

I'll have to start planning May's biscornu - I want them all to be different styles if possible, but it'll be touch soming up with 12 different styles of biscornu! Perhaps a 15-sided one next month. Or if I could find how to do one of those tulip biscornu, that would be fun. If anyone can find a tutorial on a tulip biscornu, I'd be very grateful!

Another beautiful biscornu! Sorry, can't help on your questions but will sit back and admire them all as they appear

Actually, I've been thinking about it, and I think I many have worked out in my head how to do it after all, so watch this space - a tulip biscornu could be following next month!

What a gorgeous April biscornu

There are a couple on the tubes, even some for the same 15-sided shape in quilting, This one's in French, but I thought of you when I saw the blackwork.
http://chezlilounette.over-blog.com/art ... 29088.html" target="_blank

Great progress with your basket, Kell, well done!

Serinde wrote:There are a couple on the tubes, even some for the same 15-sided shape in quilting, This one's in French, but I thought of you when I saw the blackwork.
http://chezlilounette.over-blog.com/art ... 29088.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

Ooh, "biscofleur" - I like that!