… Clemson * Cotton: Texas Tech vs Ole Miss * Fiesta: Texas vs Ohio State * BCS Championship Game: Oklahoma vs Florida 5 - Quick: name me your favorite Christmas song. Doug: 1 - I won’t be there! 2 - 70%. I know nothing about Illinois (except that Bruce Weber is crazy) and Missouri is playing Mike …
… that proved more difficult and I am not entirely happy with the result. To the right of the Vandyke stitch is a row of reverse chain in Rachelette (silver Taupe) from the Caron Collection and the right of that is Basket Stitch worked in DMC cotton. Again the stitch was fairly simple to work. The design has …
This is an in-progress embroidery project. I have been working on it on and off for about two months. It is done in DMC cotton using the split stitch. The base fabric is a piece of high thread count sheet (new). It was originally intended as just a practice piece for the stitch, but is turning out …
… to place the project in a frame covered with glass. At £1.49 a skein, they will not break the bank. The Secret Perfume Thread has the same properties as Stranded Cotton and can be substituted into any existing chart. The scent is added in the form of tiny perfume molecules that react when touched so …
… about 3/8 inches with narrowed edges. In addition, you will need white DMC thread made of poly-cotton, embroidery white thread, fabric glue and spray, embroidery DMC thread (pink and green; 818-pink; 524-green) and studs for your apron. (OOO-Studs) Now that you have your items, you can begin making …
Lock chain ornament in yellow and red DMC size 30 tatting cotton on a yellow satin ornament. The top is the same as the pattern on this blog (September 25 post), except it repeats only 5 times because of the size of the thread. The bottom is a long stretch of lock chains between sets of rings. When …
… was hopeful they’d be good. I’m impressed. I finished it this morning, and while chain stitch both isn’t something I think about when I think of candlewicking, and the thread was softer than I prefer (I’d rather use actual candlewick than the soft cotton they often package these days), I was really impressed …
… in DMC size 20 thread of some shade of purple [I'm horrible remembering names & numbers] another bookmark I was playing around with; it reminds me of embroidered flowers or fans tatted in size 10 white cotton thread a doodle of a snowflake; it started out as one thing & mutated into a snowflake …
… I have now bought some patchwork material as well to make a cushion for the armchair, a little cushion for the wicker chair, and a wall hanging. I have already done some work on the rug - it had a pattern in the weave that was just crying out to have some thread threaded through it, so I used DMC …
These two ornaments are both made from my first ornament pattern (well, the first one I ever wrote down, anyway). The green and red one is made with red DMC size 80 tatting cotton on one shuttle and machine embroidery thread in a variegated mix of bright colors backed with white sewing cotton …
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