I'm making good progress on Stars these days, probably because I'm trapped inside by snow and ice still. Since the outer border has to wait until I go thread shopping and I'm waiting to give everyone a change to vote on what I do with the sashing, I started the first star block yesterday. This block is called Marilyn Monroe. It is stitched in seven stitches of varying complexity. The first is shown above. I used the lavender J. L. Walsh silk-wool #1074 as my A2 thread and my Silk N Colors overdyed silk 062 for the Overdye. Tony says you can manipulate the Overdye to make all the Rhodes Lozenges the same but I wanted each one to be different in honor of Miss Monroe, who showed a different side of herself to each of us. Sometimes she was a sex kitten, sometimes she was a comedienne, sometimes she was the little lost girl from next door.
Stitch Two fits a waffle stitch between the eight points of the star. I used the peachy DMC cotton floss #758 for C2. Step Three is very tricky. The mosaic stitches that fill the corners vary their direction and threads. I didn't get this quite right but I will adjust it as best I can. I used the medium dark violet Splendor S1086 as A3 and DMC cotton floss 758 again as C2.
I'm laboring on Step Four but haven't done enough to make photos worthwhile yet.
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3 comments:
Lovely! It is nice that you have options in working these and I like what you are doing!
Thanks, Pat. I am not deviating much but since I am using other threads than what the instructions call for, I do need to tweek some things.
This is what we're going to work on Sunday, when the stitch-along group finally meets again. Really it's the first group stitching meeting, since the snow postponed it from earlier this month. Marilyn is very pretty. I can't wait to get started.
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