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Elmows – May 2012 – Medievally Yours!

deRomilly — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:40:20 +0000

Due to the stress going on in my life these days (more information on that in a later post), I have decided to limit the design availability to the design packs only. From this month on, I will post a new design pack on a Wednesday near the beginning of the month (I’ll try to hit the first Wednesday, but the best intentions…)

May is for Medieval! (ooh, that worked out!) I’ve been a calligrapher for almost longer than I’ve stitched, and the illumination part of my calligraphy is sneaking out into my stitch designs this month! Enjoy them! These are based on illuminations and marginalia from medieval manuscripts. Notes on sources included.

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
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Elmows will remain up for the month they are made available plus one month after. So March elmows will be available until April 30. April Elmows until May 31, and so on! They will later be made available as a hard-copy design pack only, either through my Etsy shop or at GoldenCircle Designs.com. />

Elmow – April 2012- Week 4

deRomilly — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:24 +0000

Week 4 Is all about yet another fish… Remember that the design pack listed on Week 1 has all of these designs PLUS a bonus fish all for $2.99! Elmows For March are available only through May 31, so get them while you can!

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
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Elmow – April, 2012-Week 3

deRomilly — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:00:07 +0000

Week 3 Is all about two fish… They aren’t looking at each other. Are they angry?

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Elmow – April 2012- Week 2

deRomilly — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:18 +0000

April Week 2 is all about one fish! He’s related, I think, to a rainbow trout. But maybe only distantly!

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Reminder – please read–

Elmows will remain up for the month they are made available plus one month after. So March Elmows will be available until April 30. April Elmows until May 31, and so on! They will later be made available as a hard-copy design pack only, either through my Etsy shop or at GoldenCircle Designs.com.

April 2012 Elmows – Week 1

deRomilly — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:00:02 +0000

April is for Fish! (My French teacher in high school told me that you have April Fish in France rather than April Fools, so this seems appropriate!) The package is available today for $2.99. If you only want one of the designs, with the exception of the bonus fish, they will be made available one a week through the end of April, and remain available until May 31. Today is the package deal and Week One.

The package:

Week One Design:

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Elmow – March 2012 Week 4

deRomilly — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:55 +0000

Swirly Flowers from March Design Pack.

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Elmow – March 2012 Week 3

deRomilly — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:18 +0000

Indian Inspired Floral from March Design Pack.

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TAST – Week 11 – Whipped Wheel

deRomilly — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:09:17 +0000

Week 11! Whipped wheels. I actually love this stitch. I went for a more abstract version on this, and while I like it all right in this orientation I think if I framed it I’d rotate it to the right 1/4 turn.

I learned a bit. 1. If you’re going to put them in a design, either use removable ink for the circles, or draw the spokes and not the outer edge, especially for larger rings – I tend to forget that larger makes them more octagonal, and it was hard to cover the permanent ink.

I played more with placement and being able to overlap with these, including adding beads to the spokes before whipping, and to the whipping thread as I went. All in all, they are very different looks, and I think I prefer the “put it on the spokes” method.

Click the images for more detail! The texture is great, and lends itself to photography from different angles very well, even if it did capture my added cat hair specialty fiber perfectly!

Elmow – March 2012 Week 2

deRomilly — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:28 +0000

Seed pod from March Design Pack.

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Two things today…

deRomilly — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:03:17 +0000

1. TAST is late, but finished! (hard to stitch or stay on schedule when husband is sick for a whole week!

Yes, it IS all running stitch, despite appearances. As usual, click on the photos to see more detail.

The stem is double running stitch and pattern darning at the hip.

The side petals are double running stitch with running stitch forming seeding inside.

The purple-blue long petals are whipped running stitch.

The turquoise long petals and darker blue center petals are done in a running stitch that has been whipped as though I were making a pekinese stitch: whipped in loops over two stitches. It’s more oval than round because the running stitch is spaced further apart than the traditional back space.

The design is from this month’s Elmow Package.

2. Monday treasure – hard to go ‘splorin’ on the net when your husband’s been sick! LOL But Mary Corbet posted this link this morning, and so I’m stealing it because it’s well, amazing!

Japanese embroidery as done by a master. I wish I were this quick!