12.14.11
Posted in ELMOWS at 4:55 pm by deRomilly
You will probably want to enlarge these before you stitch them… But what do I know? You might want to work them tiny with one strand of silk! If you do, I’d love to see the results!
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 5 inches wide by 5 inches tall in its entirety. 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
(919-249-8698, 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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12.07.11
Posted in ELMOWS at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Welcome to Holiday Month here on Stitching with a Shimmy!
Use as is or transfer only the tree or only the greeting! Use it as a Christmas Tree, a Solstice Tree, or a generic holiday tree…
The actual line pattern is about 5 inches wide by 6 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
(919-249-8698, 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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12.06.11
Posted in Stitching Genres at 7:00 am by deRomilly
Click for a closer view!
This sampler really IS a sampler in the true sense of the word. It’s a place where I play – I don’t worry too much if my stitching is perfect, though I work to improve it. I don’t worry if the colors end up “going,” even failures have something to tell me, and the fact that they are stitched there for posterity reminds me of why not to do things that way again! This isn’t going to end up on a wall, it’s not going to end up in a gallery (at least not in my lifetime), but hopefully I’ll learn something good in the meantime, and later people can learn something from my fun and games. It *does* go to classes I teach with me.
The first motif on this piece of fabric is an Art Nouveau border from one of the Dover books. I worked it in Vineyard Silks Merino thread. I really like the threads from this company. The merino is soft and nice to work with, and the Vineyard Silk Classics are amazing (more on them later). The merino was designed for needlepoint – I think on 14 count canvas, so it is pretty thick to be working on motifs this small. I might use it again for a larger design that needed to be filled quickly. It’s got a nice hand, and a nice sheen when completed.
And I like my color choices here- the alternating pink/turquoise gives a little variety while still keeping a unified theme. This is a border pattern that I could see stitching around the hem of a skirt for spring or summer… but in a different thread, or in a bigger size. We’ll see if I actually DO something like that with it!
As I recall, the motifs are about 2 1/2 inches tall (I’ve re-framed the work, so I can’t go measure it. I’ll try to remember to do it and edit this when I unlace it to move to a new motif!).
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12.05.11
Posted in Monday Treasures at 11:42 am by deRomilly
You all probably know by now that I love 18th century embroidery, although I don’t do historical recreations very much any more. This is an 18th century piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that isn’t the silkwork I normally gravitate to. It’s probably much more typically American than I might usually find when searching out this time period.
Done in woolwork, in Roumanian couching (a VERY American stitch, as it uses less wool), the design comes across as a bit rough and primitive, but is still absolutely charming to me.
It is part of a group that was stitched by “young ladies” at a school in Boston. I have no idea what age group “young” means in this context. The details are lacking enough that it could be anywhere from 8 to 15. I’d suspect, from the way the stitches are taken, that the stitcher was probably somewhere around 10. But it’s a guess. And an amateur guess, at that!
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11.16.11
Posted in ELMOWS at 10:17 am by deRomilly
This Elmow was inspired by Leopold Drexler’s work in the 1890s. I love how his graphics are organic, but still very symmetrical. It makes my ordered little brain happy. I hope it does the same for you!
The actual line pattern is about 5 inches square. 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
(919-249-8698, 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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