REPOSTED FROM YESTERDAY since Blogger won't show the title of my poll. BAD BLOGGER!
I've been thinking about just who visits Blog and realized although I know the number of folks who visit each day and how many of you read Blog via a Reader of some sort, I don't know how many are die-hard painted canvas folk, who mostly stitches counted pieces, and how many folks don't needlepoint at all but just visit occasionally to keep up with what the wild needlepointers say and do. So, let's do a poll. I'll leave it up for a week or so to give everyone time to choose what sort of stitching they mostly do. Thanks for responding, by the way!
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
19 comments:
Hi Jane - Definitely a painted canvas person - but I'm sure you've figured that out.
Yes, Peggi, I kinda noticed that. LOL
I know you and me are into the painted canvases but I don't know everyone who shows up here. I'm curious....
Hi, Jane - I'd guess I'm an 90% painted canvas stitcher. I just love many of the counted pieces I see but they never seem to work their way into my 'next up' pile. Who knows what tomorrow may bring!!
Nancy
I mainly stitch counted canvas as an example Tony Minieri's Stars for the New Millennium. Yes I know you have done that one, a real beauty and complex.
Within the past month though I purchased a painted canvas which I plan to embellish with many different stitches.
Yeah for you, Anon. It is my prejudice that counted folks have much better stitch technique than us painted canvas people. I'm sure whatever you do with a painted canvas wil be wonderful!
I am 90% painted canvas. Like Nancy, I do have some counted canvas in the stash but I have not put them on the "to do this year" list. I have Tony's Stars, Rainforest Crunch, and Strawberry Shortcake on the top of the someday pile. My immediate plans are to try and finish Carole Lake's St. Basil's. Love to read your blog!
Liz
Surface embroidery, almost entirely, although I still have a half-finished painted canvas lurking in a cupboard...
Currently, I am working on painted canvas. I have some needlepainting and blackwork kits from Tanja Berlin waiting for my attention (but I promised myself that I wouldn't start another project until I finish a few that I have). I do stitch some counted canvas, and have some hardanger and crewel sitting on the sidelines. I used to do cross stitch and still buy some of the charts that I love, but don't see that I'll be getting back to it any time soon. However, I may adapt a few of the whimsical charts to counted canvas.
~Judy
So I picked "mostly embroidery and crewel," but I really do a little bit of everything that's listed.
I picked the embroidery and crewel category because if you give me a choice, I'm most likely to pick something from that category. But I've been buying a LOT of painted canvases for the past year, and I'm eager to get started on some of those. I have one more big piece on deadline, and then I can dig in!
Carol S.
I knew there would be a few polygamous stitchers among us, Carol. You did what I asked by choosing the category you would pick from first if you were asked to pick from them all.
It's nice to have multi-talented folks visiting!
I stitch mostly painted canvases. I can personalize them with my favorite stitches and colors.
In the past I did almost all counted pieces, but I love the differnet fibers available for the painted pieces.
Counted canvas, surface embroidery, painted canvas, XS - in that order :)
I am another 'polygamist'. I consider it a great day when I can stitch on a painted canvas and knit and quilt!
Exclusively painted canvas now... Love the fibers available ... Spent a lifetime with counted and surface .... Retirement brings pleasure from painted ... Love the blog!
Thanks for the nice compliment, Retired Anon!
I can't vote, because I'm sort-of 50% each painted and counted, and dead heats aren't possible! Please, Jane, can you count me twice?
And there's a missing category too: homemade outlines that one fills in with suitable stitches! I've done a few of those, most notably four Elizabethan knot gardens that I used real Elizabethan outlines for and filled in with, respectively, yellow, coral, heather and blue stitches.
At this moment I'm fighting with the background on http://www.millennia-designs.com/tapestry-cross-stitch-embroidery-kits/76/89/84/index.htm , which is just acres of half-cross (to save on yarn, since it'll be hung up somewhere. My rear wouldn't feel safe, leaning against those fierce birds if they were a cushion!); and after that I'll go back to Amybear's charted Heavenly Cats and count my way to the end of them. I've changed her colours to fit Cats I Have Been Owned By, and it's looking good.
Thank you for your sterling efforts to educate and entertain your happy readership. You provide such delightful things to inspire us. More power to your stitching elbow!
Deborah in early springtime South Africa
Deborah, I deliberately made the poll one that had one choice only. But when I publish the final results when the poll goes down, I'll count you both ways, ok?
Outline canvases are one of my favorite things. They are very hard to find now in the States but you are creating your own, which means you are an original designer as well as stitcher. Congratulations! That's my favorite kind of stitcher!
I read your blog to give me the confidence to do painted canvas enbroidery as I mainly work with Chatelaine designs, counted cross stitch and speciality stitches. I find daunting the matching of colours and stitches in needlepoint, however, if I don't give it a go I will never know so I have purchased a couple of Leigh designs to begin. Lilyrose
How exciting, Lilyrose! I hope you have great fun with your new Leigh canvases. If you have the technical skill I think you do, you will soon get the hang of it. You don't have to worry about color at first. Just think about what the thing you are stitching would look like in real life, then find a stitch that mimics that effect. Repeat for half the canvas, then tent stitch the rest to make it easier the first time. Success!
Remember, you can always ask for help here. Just email me at chillyhollow at hotmaildotcom and I'll gladly give advice.
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