Here is a free chart for Christmas bulb ornaments in needlepoint. Note that when the instructions say you are to trace three mini sock outlines on the canvas, they mean you are to trace the three little lightbulbs.
http://www.rainbowgallery.com/images/Carolines%20Mini%20Lights.pdf
Rummage in your stash and find leftovers and stitch these in your free moments while traveling Christmas.
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
Friday, December 19, 2008
Beaded Boxes
Last night I finished the shawl collar's boxes of both colors. I did do fake eyelets in the blue boxes by using tent or reverse tent stitches all around the edge. I left the centers bare and added pink beads which are attached with a cross stitch using one ply of my deep plum Splendor S1037. I thought since the beads are all sitting on top of a thread intersection due to the way the blue boxes are painted, that a cross stitch would secure them better than my more usual doubled thread through and then stitched again with one ply on either side of the bead.
I used 4 plies of DMC 964 for the blue boxes, which is a lighter version of the teal blue thread (DMC 187) that outlines the cleaning woman's yakuta on the left side. The canvas is painted this way and I think the color looks very good with the plums and dusty pinks in The Geisha's robe.
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
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