As always, when I get close to the finish of a rug, I turn my attention to the next one I would like to stitch. I haven't decided yet whether to stitch this one again so that I may have one for myself and one to sell, or whether to start my Mariko Rug pattern. Hopefully, I will have decided before I finish this one!
I have a very busy week this week so won't get mush done in the way of stitching but maybe I will have some time again in the evenings. Fingers crossed. Until next time I post, I hope you have a good time stitching whatever project you have chosen to do.
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me at the moment. I have made mistakes in the middle before on another rug and had to take all of the middle stitching out to fix it because I noticed the other side of the rug wasn't lining up where it should. This was on my very first rug, the Butterfly Rug, the pattern for which can be found in my Free Pattern section here: Free Patterns. For that rug I stitched the background in Basketweave stitch because it had large areas with no motif, therefore, I couldn't do what I am doing now and had to fix it and continue in the direction I was going.
Hopefully, I will have more to show of my progress next week. As the first day of 2023 draws to a close for Cheryl, myself and our families, I wish to extend our heartfelt wishes for a wonderful new year to all of you. Every year brings challenges and the last few years have definitely been a challenge for the whole world. Hopefully, this year we can all begin to live a more peaceful, rewarding life and begin to heal from the huge challenges we all faced with Covid, among other issues felt around the world. May we learn to live in harmony with our neighbors and celebrate that which makes us all unique individuals.
Many of us make New Year's Resolutions and I hope that if you have done so this year, that you will achieve what you wish to do. I don't necessarily make resolutions, but I do reflect on the past year and develop plans I wish to achieve moving forward. Many of mine this year revolve around renovation projects for my house but I have lots of plans also for new rug patterns and new stitching projects I wish to start this year. We plan to attend a couple of miniature shows as vendors and I will be travelling to Chicago for the first time to attend the Bishop Show in April (not as a vendor but as an attendee). This has been a plan of mine for the last 3 years and this year I will finally be able to go! I am looking forward to it very much. I will also be travelling to Castine, Maine this year in June as a Guild School Scholarship recipient! I was so excited to have been chosen for one of the Scholarships and can't wait to find out which class/classes I have gotten into. Work continues on my Katrianna Rug and I will post a photo of that soon showing my progress. The holiday times are so busy that I haven't had as much time to stitch as I would have liked but now that things will be returning to normal this week, I hope to begin stitching again in earnest. Until next time, stay safe and Happy Stitching!
save all of the background until the end so I am finding it very interesting. I love seeing the colors emerge as I go. The hardest part is trying to decide whether to stitch upwards towards the next element or horizontally, so I find I do both. I am trying to finish working with a strand of background thread in one go so that I do not mix it up with the lightest of the flower colors. This is working well for me as I do not end off the other threads when I finish a motif and can very easily mix up the two colors. I run it off to the side of the stitches somewhere out of the way until I need it again. This helps reduce the number of starts and endings of a thread. However, if there will be a large section of background that I need to cross to get to the next motif, I will finish off the thread rather than carry it that far so that the back looks neater.
I am looking forward to seeing how much I can finish next week!
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AuthorMy name is Yvette, and I will be writing this blog to tell you about the creative process that has gone into the creation of my Petitpoint patterns along with showing the stitching I have done of some of the rugs. Archives
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