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Lovely work Mabel on both the tiny piece and the hardanger

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

Beautiful colors!!!!!

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?

SusanF wrote: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

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.

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

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!

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

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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.

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.

I think that's stunning Mabel!

Stunning work Mabel

Mabel you are amazing!!!!!!!

Such delicate, beautiful work!

Louise

That is beautiful!

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

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 !

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"

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!