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Mabel Figworthy wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:31 pm Well, it certainly looks very similar... have you ever tried it and been able to compare it side-by-side with what you might call "stitching perle"?

Petra is 100g/400m
Pearl 5 is 100g/500m

There is so little difference. If Petra were in a skein, it would be 20m instead of 25, so it's a little fatter. Might make very plump kloster blocks on 22ct?

Thanks, that makes it very clear.

I must say, if feels lovely stuff. I bought 3 balls of each weight (3, 5 and 8 ), two in DMC B5200 and one (size 3) in DMC 3837, which is a glorious dark lavender. Once I can get the loan of one of the Guild of Weavers inkle looms again, I'm going to enjoy experimenting with it. Online buying is (too) easy, but there's nothing like actually being able to handle the material, is there?

In other news, I think I've finally finished the stitching of the Tall Year Square. Now comes the fun part...

Just in case you thought I was neglecting my 2020 list of 9 projects, here is the stitching completed for Debby Morgan's Tall Year Square. Now for the construction, which includes the box itself (oh help and bother), a pin cube and a scissor fob...

All of those beautiful pieces will become sides of a box?? What a magnificent box that will be!! Beautiful stitching, Serinde! I can't wait to see the final project!

Carole

Sides, lid, bottom, 6-squares for the pin cube, 2 for the scissor fob. In the second photo, only the top rectangles are the box. The bottom little bits go on the inside of the outside panels, if you see what I mean. Like this. I still have to deal with some stitching to place the buttons, cover the rings, made the corner barrels for the lid... It's a massive project.

Oh my gosh, so many beautiful pieces there!

I adore the dragonfly one! They're all gorgeous, this box sounds amazing!

Lovely stitching and such variety - the box will be one of those things you keep discovering new things on every time you look at it!

Mabel Figworthy wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 12:38 pm Lovely stitching and such variety - the box will be one of those things you keep discovering new things on every time you look at it!

Exactly my first thought. Looking at it will never become boring. If I could do all those stitches, I would stitch an enormous sampler full of nice small designs like yours for this magic box and spread it on my desk for them to be before my eyes. Very well done, Serinde.

I'm sure you posted that photo before of how the box will look, but thank you again for showing us. I am awestruck by how beautiful it will be!

Carole

Oh WOW and WOW again. They are totally fabulous Serinde and I am sooooo looking forward to seeing it all assembled.

So am I! There are a bunch of stitches I have to learn to do properly before I tackle it, of course. But it's all in a good cause, but it's a LOT of work for something that's only just over 5inches tall...

That is going to be One heck of a beautiful box!!

So beautiful. Can’t wait to see it all put together.

Serinde wrote: Sat May 02, 2020 8:56 am But it's all in a good cause, but it's a LOT of work for something that's only just over 5inches tall...

It is such a special project. It will take time but the final result will be AMAZING.

Remember I signed up for the Opus Anglicanum online laid & couched work course? Well, I'm several weeks behind (I blame the garden and good weather), but here's the first section finally done. It wouldn't pass muster at the RSN! I should add that I didn't have any brown for the 2nd angel's hair and ran out of pink, so I used Rennaissance Dyeing threads from their Elizabethan range -- hand-dyed using dyes available in the 16th century, etc. Slightly thinner wool, but behaved beautifully.

On to trumpets!

The RSN might be critical, but I bet the Bayeux stitchers would gladly have welcomed you into their fold!

Love the use of threads dyed in ways that they might have used too.

Possibly! I did find that I became more confident with shapes as time went on. Now the trick is getting the curves on the trumpet and the last angel wing right...

I've never covered an area this large with Bayeux stitch - can I ask whether you split the long stitches at all or do they stretch the whole length of the angels' robes etc? (I can't remember how big the piece is but it looks like quite a distance.)

Edited:
not "split" as in "split stitch", but what I meant was did you on very long stretches use two or three instead of one very very long one