July Report

Dear friends and fellow bloggers,

We are still enjoying this beautiful weather, but I fear it will have to come to an end soon. It is warm today but the sun has yet to make an appearance.

 

Thank you for all your comments on my blog and on my new Instagram account. I'm really having fun with with it … and learning a lot.

I do have a couple of finishes I would like to share today.

 

My first is a FFO from Plum Street Samplers called Serial Bowl Collection of Sampler Lessons - Lesson Three. It's a sweet design with a theme of bees. I used the called for threads in either the hand-dyed or the DMC alternative. You may notice a slight change in my stitched piece and the one that Paulette designed. Now you know how the USA and UK have different spellings of words, well I thought long and hard about the word "labors". Should I change it? Would it be right? Would the designer mind? In the end I had to spell it with the extra "u" as we would in the UK … and hoped Paulette wouldn't mind. I did have to push the birdhouse in the middle of the piece over to accommodate the bee to the left of it. I love the colours though, who would of thought to put a lilac/purple with the neutrals of the piece. So pretty.

 

 

Serial Bowl Collection of Sampler Lessons ~ Lesson Three - Plum Street Samplers.

40ct Mushroom Newcastle Linen.

Used recommended DMC or hand-dyed threads.

 

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As you know one of my favourite designers is The Drawn Thread and I can't go long without stitching something by Cynthia. The theme of bees continues with this design called Let It Bee. It's a smallish design only measuring 6" x 4" on 32ct fabric.

 

 

Let It Bee - The Drawn Thread

32ct Antique Lambswool Permin/Wichelt Linen.

Used recommended Dinky Dye Silks and Soie Perlee thread.

 

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Lastly for this post. I have one ready for the Halloween season. Oct 31st by With Thy Needle and Thread / Brenda Gervais is now a stitching finish. I don't think I have ever frogged so much or changes so many colours in a design. I will try and list the threads / colours I used below. The majority are the threads called for but the asterisk ones are the threads that I have added (I think!).

 

Classic Colorworks

Perfect Piecrust

 

Weeks Dye Works

Straw

Pelican Gray

Pecan

Olive

Sage

Tiger's Eye

** Parchment - Witch Apron

 

Gentle Art Sampler Thread

Pumpkin Pie

Woodrose

Cinnamon

Wheat Fields

Toasted Barley

Toffee

** Carriage Black - Witch Dress and Lettering

 

DMC

** 3781 - Trees

** 3799 - Body of Birds

** 310 - Wings of Birds

 

 

 

Oct 31st - With Thy Needle and Thread / Brenda Gervais.

40ct Wren Picture This Plus.

Threads used - listed above.

 

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So until next time ……..