Little wood

Autumn leaves on white stems

I made mostly lazy daisy stitches and French knots

after wrapping the stems.

A few forlorn drizzle stitches which you hardly can see because

my thread is so thin. It is a multicoloured fine perlé.

The square is about 4 cm (1 1/2")

 

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Making "holes" again

I started something new.

I am counting threads again, cutting them but not actually

counting them. Just free-hand. Cutting how much I think in this

special moment.

under my new magnifying lamp. It is good to see exactly where

to cut.

Here I started wrapping - making my first steps.

I like so much the creation of Catherine Jordan and I must try it.

I was also looking in Pinterest for samples and found some charming

embroideries.

I will show you the tiny stichery very soon.

 

 

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Squared out

I offered myself the very special

magazine for stitchers INSPIRATIONS.

Now, as the Christmas rush is over I indulged into the smallest object

in this magazine - a drawn thread square to be a scissors fob.

I followed the instructions point for point and found them very good.

The magazine is on my working table
I did already two sides of the square and you can see the threads
being drawn and standing out

The drawn threads standing up into the air.

The square is finished - next, the embroidery with bullion stitches
it is the part of the work where I can relax

It is finished and I don't know yet what I will do with it.
I am quite satisfied - it is very similar to the original in the magazine -
a tiny bit larger because I had to use a linen with a count
smaller than 38 as the author suggested.
The lady in the shop could not tell me which count it is
I think it must have been something like 28.

Anyway, I had great difficulties to see and count the threads.
The fabric was difficult because the weft was two threads.
Maybe this is normal - I don't know.
Probably it was not at all the right fabric for a drawn thread embroidery.