Personal Library of Stitches

This class is going way to fast. This is my exploration for Week 4. I used about 8 shades of green. I also used a couple of thicker threads and also DMC 6 strands. This thick background is just made up of layers of Cretan stitch.

I then went on to explore some stitches that can be used to represent flowers. From left to right - Algerian Eye or Star stitch, Fly stitch, French Knots grouped together, top - French Knots and Bullion stitch and bottom - Palestrina stitch. I used two different coloured threads in my needle for the Palestrina stitch that has the yellow in it.

This was really fun and I'd like to do a full piece with this type of background sometime.

I now have the Week 5 notes to go on with and then the Week 6 notes come on Thursday. I still have lots of exploring of stitches to do for all of the weeks. This class really gets the ideas flowing. I now understand why Sharon Boggon from Pin Tangle (and the teacher of this class) has such a very long sampler.

I haven't done the last 2 of the Stitch Explorer challenges but I'll catch up on them when this class is finished.

Personal Library of Stitches

Did more stitching today. This is another sampler for Week 3. Hoping to get one done for week 4 before the next class notes come this week. This class sure has got my creative juices flowing. I've been getting lots of ideas of things I want to try and I've been drawing lots of designs in my sketchbook.

I went and saw the movie "Duplicity" last night. It was good but it jumped back and forwards in time abit so you had to really keep track of what was going on. It was abit confusing at first. But it was good as abit of light hearted entertainment.

Personal Library of Stitches

I managed to do some more stitching. I was having just abit of a play. Its abit of a combination of Lesson 2 and Lesson 3. I'm going to d0 samplers for Lesson 3 and 4 next.

Going to the movies now with a friend to see Duplicity - hope it's good.

Personal Library of Stitches

My Week 2 sampler for PLOS was looking abit bare so I added more to it. I'm happy with it now. The week 3 lesson looks really interesting, I'm going to get started on it today.

Personal Library of Stitches - Online Joggles Class

I've started the Personal Library of Stitches online joggles class with Sharon Boggon. To find out more about the class go here.

I've been wanting to explore embroidery stitches more so this was the perfect class for me to do. It's been fun. Week 3's class notes are coming out tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to that.

Week 1

Week 2

I really enjoyed doing my last post on Indian Inspiration. I think I will do some inspirational posts again on different topics in the future. I found lots of great sites and photos that I hadn't seen before as well as being able to share those I love. Its also great having all these links in the one spot that I can go back and refer to. It's a shame that the music can't be linked in with the post so it can be played along with it anytime someone goes to it.