After I managed to finish the SharonG blue bow name tag without gluing myself to the dining room table, I picked up Stars and started on the next quilt block. This block is named Marlon Brando and it is the first block on the left in the second row. The center is several steps, the first of which is rather tricky if you don't pay attention to the diagram. Not that I would *ever* do that, but I did have to pull it out twice before I got the count right....
As a reminder, my Stars colors are violet (A), black (B), terracotta (C) and copper metallic (D). For the center the first step is black B9, Neon Rays N01, immediately covered by a woven sort of arrowhead shape using violet A4, Impressions 6043. The center has a partial copper Smyrna Cross (D3 Treasure Braid TR67) surrounded by lazy daisy stitches in the same thread that slip through the Smyrna Cross legs. Then the rest of the Smyrna Cross is worked in the same D3 thread. The middle of the lazy daisy stitches is just a long length of violet A1 Impressions 6042, which is slightly darker than the arrowhead shape's Impressions. You end up with a raised cross that is quite striking.
The next step is to surround the center with what look like petals to me. This is done in violet A8 (the nylon perle Patina PA267). Then you do a mirror image of the petals using copper D3 (Treasure Braid TR67 again). That's where I was in the photo above, just starting the mirror image of the inner purple petals in my copper thread. I realized I was getting tired as the first copper petal didn't line up with the second so I started ripping out. I'll try again when I am not so tired.
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2 comments:
It is striking, and hang in there...you will get the count.
Thanks for the encouragement, Pat. I just can't count when I am tired.
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