Some new stitches and Rapunzel continuation no. 8

Queenie - my reference number two for excellent stitching

announces Scandinavian stitches each Sunday.

(Number one of course is Sharon Boggon of TAST - take a stitch Tuesday) 

Some of Queenies stitches are so interesting that I take them over 

into my stitch book with drawings how to make ithem. 

Maybe only I will be able to understand them - maybe after some time not even me. 

We will see.

I posted already bout the Anundsjö stitch (it. is Swedish) - it is the first and second row.

It is done with two threads. So in the second row I took two different colours.

The third and fourth row show the Danish knot - such a very nice stitch -
if one needs something bigger than a French knot. It is also known as German knot.

And then fifth row the ermine stitch, in Swedish the Hermelinstygn. I have no

German name for it - maybe someone will know a name.

In French - which also interests me because we live part time in France:

Point d'hermine

Here is also Rapunzel again - a stitching pattern - straw-silk paper sewn down on

silk - and all sorts of stitches around cutout circles

And how I make my marks: It is with this pencil - Frixion is its name.

It is the pencil with some kind of rubber on the opposite end of the 

ball point. But I don't rub out with this - no - I use a moderate hot iron

and go gently over it - if I want to erase the signs and marks.

Like a mystery - they disappear!  

Free embroidery and Stitching a Story - no. 6

Preparing for free embroidery on hand-dyed cotton 

I am following now and then - whenever I think of it

the Sunday stitch school of Queenie -

(She showed how to make backstitches by imprinting the holes

first by a not-threaded sewing machine - really good for beginners)

I am making them as usually free hand not caring too much about

eveness.

I stitched a circle and filling it in with chain stitches and variegated thread

- it will be a flower - 

My fantasy petals are made by the Anundsjö stitch (see my last post): http://queeniepatch.blogspot.fr/2016/11/sunday-stitch-school-lesson-1-anundsjo.html

Searching in my scrap boxes I found a cup shape - an ideal vase 

for the flower - I also made two puffs (bumpy bits - expression by

Karen Ruane) and stems.

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About Rapunzel - I can tell you that every girl needs more than

one dress.

So the meanwhile 16 years old Rapunzel was gifted with a beautiful

silk skirt - embroidered and embellished with lace

It is lined with withe silk as well.

Now the prince can be welcomed - and he indeed spares no effort to visit

the beautiful girl.

What looks like his bag is part of the dress which was slipped through

from the other side of the page. 

(There must be a door at the bottom how otherwise did Rapunzel

get high up into her prison? Later in the story the sorceress and the girl

leave the tower - and I am sure they use the spiral staircase - )

This could be the tower - it is in Villersexel - Haute-Saône, France - 

the chateau is transformed Into a hotel and the private rooms

can be visited with a guide - two afternoons a week.