Mabel's Hardanger -- now closed, see new thread

[agi]

[wendywombat]

Lovely bit of 'Bling' in there!!

Just perfect for 'Noon'

[johannauk]

All your work is beautiful - I especially like those coasters, they are gorgeous!!

[karen4bells]

Excellent!!

[XandraS]

Noon looks great Mabel, love seeing the different filling stitches

[Cecilia]

Lovely designs.

[dollystitcher]

Totally stunning work Mabel, I love the Bow tie stitch in particular

[Mrs Milkybar Kid]

Mabel your work is so beautiful! I love all the amazing coloured threads you use in your work - makes me want to have a go at hardanger, but the cutting makes me a bit scared!

[Mabel Figworthy]

The cutting is really not that scary -- especially if you start with small projects, so that if (and it really is very unlikely) something does go wrong, you'll have "wasted" only a little time (and even then it's not really wasted because it gives you experience). The Kloster blocks and satin stitch parts are really very quick, so you could easily stitch up a few practice blocks for cutting. Or you could start with the Guildhouse designs which use Kloster blocks and filling stitches, but no cutting.

[tiffstitch]

Very pretty Mabel! I love the bow tie stitch, very interesting.

[Cockneystitcher]

Wow the coasters look great and are they Clovers in the Morning one,they look good.

[Mabel Figworthy]

Julie, originally they were just three heart shapes connected with an extra satin stitch where two hearts touched, but it didn't look balanced, so I added the "stem" making them into clovers. Not sure what clovers have to do with morning but they look nice . The names are fairly tenuous anyway, mostly determined by the colours and by the fact that I wanted sets of four -- but the nice thing about these is that each of the twelve can basically be stitched using one neutral colour (white or cream) and one other colour; in theory you could stitch a sampler of all twelve using white plus twelve different shades of blue, or green, or whatever!

[Mabel Figworthy]

I finished Night yesterday (and got quite a lot done on Evening) and managed to take pics today, so here it is with a close-up of the Woven Picot Filling -- Agi, I think you did some woven picots in your sampler of squares, didn't you? This is like that, only adapted to be within a cut hole

By the way, was looking through my list of Finished Projects By Year, and found that I did my very first Hardanger about a year and a half ago

[Cockneystitcher]

It was just that soon as i saw the clover/shamrock i thought it was going to have an Irish name.Any way the designs are all looking pretty amazing.

[tiffstitch]

Night looks great! Only 1 1/2 years ago? Now you've invented new stitches and are designing like crazy.. wow.

[karen4bells]

Another amazing Mabel design and such elegant stitching too!! What an artist you are!!

[wendywombat]

Neat woven bars!

This series is really pretty.

So! This may have been asked before But are you inventing new filling stitches or have you found these in a pattern book?

[Cecilia]

Only doing Hardanger for a year & a half . I think something must have 'clicked' because you just ran with it and haven't looked back.

[Mabel Figworthy]

@ Wendy: it's always a bit difficult to know if you're the first person to use a certain stitch, because they can so easily be thought up by several people at the same time. But yes, there are stitches which I have not seen in any pattern book or magazine -- the X-bars, the Y-bars, the Bow-Tie filling, and in a way the Woven Picot filling because I don't think anyone has used woven picots in this way (Mary Hickmott used something similar a month or two back, but with two rather than three "spokes"), the Woven Twisted Bars (Twisted Bars you can find in pattern books, but the weaving was my idea), and in the Compass series there's a stitch I've called Chinese Lantern -- not a filling stitch but a surface stitch -- made up of a fly stitch and a reverse chain stitch (watch this space )

When the three series are complete, I'll put a special forum offer in Trade & Sell!

[Mabel Figworthy]

The Round the Clock series is now complete -- here is Evening: