Until I get another urge, that is. Here's the second box, in Bucilla cream tapestry yarn, which is probably going to be a present. I like very much how it looks a bit transparent. The thing I don't like about needlepoint is how totally opaque it often looks, not my taste at all. But stitching on transparent canvas in cream colored yarn, I liked that. This was stitching to watch DVDs by.
However, my rings for the Dorset buttons are on the way -- the first lot arrived, will work, but are small, and I have larger ones on the way. Now I have great ideas about inserting a small ring inside a larger ring, but meanwhile I would like to get my other stitchings done.
I already have ideas about how to create the Dorset buttons using my own pattern, or rather my own freeform path! I'm thinking planets and moons revolving or something.
Three projects at work simultaneously, each worked on daily where I can. The Big Doorway is shaping up, very free form, designing as I go
The yellow stitch painting of the flower, very exact and fine and satisfying work, I love to angle the stitches to try to show the movement of the petals and their irregularities
And totally following orders, here's another tissue box, using the tapestry yarn I scored at the thriftie this week. Probably to be a gift for someone.
This is the sort of stitching you can do while you watch Pie in the Sky which I'm rewatching this week.
No design work, just happily follow the patterns. I like very much the way this Bucilla tapestry yarn gives a good stitch definition, and the light and shade that play on it give you a lot more color than just the basic cream.
Up next, when my package arrives, Dorset buttons. I gave up on trying to find curtain rings or any rings that were within a reasonable price, some of them really silly, half a dozen little rings for half the cost of my groceries for a week, I ask you...anyway, while a fellow stitcher is searching her house for her mother's stash of curtain rings, which she will find at some time, I ordered up O rings from a science sort of category.
Right size, not sure of the texture, but we'll see how they work when they get here, which will be today. And at a couple of dollars for a package of 100, plenty of room for experiment without tears.
Coughing endlessly and really not able to do anything fine in the stitching line, sneezing, all that, so I started on a little thing I just fancied, having seen a fellow stitcher at stitch in with this book
and some samples of her own work. I promptly sent away for the book and some plastic canvas. It's dead simple, great fun, 7 mesh plastic canvas, and I'm just blindly following the stitches on the diagram, most unusual for me, very restful in fact. Big needle, big yarn, big meshes, quite a change. I have to force myself to stop, though, before I'm completely spent. But it does involve counting, which is a good brain exercise for me, since hardly anything I make involves counting anything literally. So this is good, using parts of the brain that have been lying idle, while the rest of it has been galloping all over on hobbyhorses.
And it's also using up some yarns that have been lying around waiting for a job to do. Last time I used plastic canvas was waaaaay back, when I used it to teach little kids to make miniature furniture.
Of course, once done, this tissue box will probably acquire beads and other items...
