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Needlecase update

by Deb on May 8th, 2006

I only did a bit of needlework this weekend, but what I did was a nice challenge. I stitched my first hardanger block Ever. It looks a bit mangled, what I would call “Charlie Brown”. I’m going to leave it as-is, so that some day when I can stitch beautiful hardanger in my sleep, I can look back at this and feel proud of how far I’ve come.

I meant to take a picture after I’d stitched the kloster blocks, and snipped the threads, but not pulled them out, and forgot. Gah! Evening stitching is not always the smart thing to do! I did take a couple pictures as I worked the ‘woven bars’:

The first woven bar- I wrapped the wrong direction, not really understanding what I was doing.

Here I’ve completed the second woven bar:

And the finished square:

I decided to ‘call it a night’ and stop stitching after working the two Rhodes Butterflies (which I’d never stitched before either)- because the first one I placed one thread too low, and the second one I squished one thread too narrow. I’m going to leave them as-is, because the errors aren’t terribly noticeable, the backstitch outlining can still be done in the correct spot, and it serves as a lesson to stop stitching when my eyes start getting tired.

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POSTED IN: Counted Cross Stitch, Works in Progress, hardanger