08.31.11
Posted in ELMOWS, General at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Ah, the end of the month, and the beginning of a new cycle! With this post, Elmow #1 is no longer available.
Not all Elmows are counted work – but this one is!
I’d love to see what you make with it!
Stitch count – 42 X 42
Size when stitched on 14 count fabric – 3 x 3 inches.
Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.
What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?
If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-265-7059, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!
Reminder – please read–
Because of the size of my downloadable shopping cart (relatively small), after Elmow #12 I will have to begin rotating Elmows. This means that as I add a new one, the oldest remaining one will no longer be available. When Elmow #13 goes up, Elmow #1 comes down. #14 loses #2 and so forth. If you want older Elmows, now is the time to get them. 
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08.29.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 7:00 am by deRomilly
My unfinished needlework...
I think we probably all have at least one unfinished piece sitting around our house waiting for us.
But to find an unfinished piece from the past is actually quite rare (heirs and spouses often don’t keep our unfinished work).
This Monday I’ve got an amazing piece of partially finished work from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to show you. These are the pieces for an unfinished stumpwork cabinet. They raise more questions for me about the construction of said cabinet than they answer. The pieces are stitched on one piece of fabric, very close together. They are intended to be cut apart and applied to a wooden cabinet as so many stumpwork pieces are. But there isn’t any space to wrap them around… how were they applied? Glue? gimp and finishing nails?
The finished casket above can be seen in detail here. There are many closeups and different views of it.
In any case, it is a wonderful opportunity to see a work in progress. They have other caskets online that have been finished, so you can imagine what this would look like finished!
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08.24.11
Posted in ELMOWS at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Reminder – please read–
Because of the size of my downloadable shopping cart (relatively small), as of next week I will begin rotating Elmows. This means that as I add a new one, the oldest remaining one will no longer be available. When Elmow #13 goes up, Elmow #1 comes down. #14 loses #2 and so forth. If you want older Elmows, now is the time to get them.
Not all Elmows are counted work!
A freestyle embroidery pattern! Use it for your technique of choice – crewel, long and short stitch, goldwork – your call. I’d love to see what you make from it!
The actual line pattern is about 4 inches wide by 5 inches tall. Feel free to use a photocopier to enlarge or shrink it to a preferred size!
Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.
What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?
If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-265-7059, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!
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08.22.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 7:00 am by deRomilly
I know, it’s only Monday. The week in question was last week. It built up pain, and then ended on a sad note for me. It shoved my brain into a tailspin. I’ve got two friends right now going through some really nasty health issues. And then I found out that my fantastic model stitcher had passed away last month. Very very sad.
So I wasn’t in much shape to concentrate on anything in the way of stitching – especially things I have to think about, like cross stitch counting, or figuring out what stitch to put where or what color to put where in one of my own crewel designs. So I started DaisyChain ABCs by Posie, which also counts as a Monday Treasure! I fell in love with the pattern and ordered it when I saw it on the Spinster Stitcher’s blog. She’s currently working on Needle Delight’s Aquamarine, and I’m fighting the urge to go buy a copy and start it, too, because it’s just so…. so… watery! (I’m winning this particular fight because it’s counted… and I’ve got counted projects galore right now!)
Because I just cannot do anything the way a pattern tells me to, I’m using the back of one of the EO’s dead dress shirts as the fabric – I love the color. And since I don’t particularly like Appleton crewel wool because it’s so fuzzy, I replaced it with Renaissance Dying wool that I ordered from Hedgehog Handworks. Don’t go to that link — you’ll want everything on the site! (Don’t say you weren’t warned!) Otherwise I stuck with the colors specified, and the stitches specified. The only thing I’d do differently is use a slightly darker shade of blue – the blue in the “C” is very pale, and looks almost like the white in the “D” next to it. And now that I’ve spent the weekend goofing off, I’m feeling much more coherent, and I’m back to stitching. The big blue thing now has a name – it’s “Chelsea” after my late model stitcher (she stitched the Alhambra model for me… I’m going to miss her). And I’m happy to be working on the Elisabetta sampler again. (Details of her, soon.)
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08.17.11
Posted in ELMOWS at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Reminder – please read–
Because of the size of my downloadable shopping cart (relatively small), after Elmow #12 I will have to begin rotating Elmows. This means that as I add a new one, the oldest remaining one will no longer be available. When Elmow #13 goes up, Elmow #1 comes down. #14 loses #2 and so forth. If you want older Elmows, now is the time to get them.
Not all Elmows are counted work – but this one is!
I’d love to see what you make with it!
Stitch count – 42 X 42
Size when stitched on 14 count fabric – 3 x 3 inches.
Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.
What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?
If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-249-8698, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!
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