02.28.07
Posted in Free Patterns, Counted work, Needlepoint at 6:35 pm by deRomilly
These two websites came up while I was surfing RCTN (That’s the rec.crafts.textiles.needlework usenet group for those of you not “in the knowâ€) the other day. I found them interesting, given my last post.
The first is a blackwork blog in Turkey. She adapts some turkish rug designs, and very original ideas. Such pretty designs, and so novel!
The second is the scented nectar needlepoint company. She also has charted work. These are mostly round, and what she calls “Sequentially stitched†charts, where the first chart gives you just one color in the pattern, the second adds the next and so on. I don’t know that this is a way I’d like to work, but it’s an interesting concept! Worth looking into, at the very least.
Ah, the things we find when bouncing around the net!
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02.24.07
Posted in Free Patterns, Counted work at 8:14 pm by deRomilly
One of the things I find lovely about geometric motifs in cross stitch patterns is the variety of ways you can use them.
- You can backstitch around them with no cross stitch at all and you have an instant blackwork design.
- You can work them in long-armed cross using the Portuguese Arraiolos rug technique and you have something completely unique!
- You can work them in straight, normal cross stitch without any outlining, and get a lovely mosaic effect.
- You can try out different stitches as filling.. what if you replaced the lines of cross stitch with lines of chain stitch and then outlined over the edges?
- What happens if you use overdyed threads that change color?
Oh, the possibilities are endless!
And on that note, you’ll notice that there were two cross stitch patterns in this post, both also translated to blackwork for you. Feel free to right-click on them and save them to your computer, print them out and use them for personal use. If you want to send them to others, please send them the link to this site instead.
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