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| Carol's Gold Fish |
http://needlepointbylilliandesign.com/
Carol's been rather busy with life, not to mention getting her EGA Master Craftsman status (congratulations!), but she has started to work her Gold Fish background. The color is absolutely perfect! What you don't see in the photo above is that Carol's tent stitched over the seaweed strands in the background and over the fish before putting her fancy wave stitch on top of the background seaweed. This helps keep the color from showing under the stitches. Once Carol gets further along, she will put the seaweed back using ribbons and beads. Which brings us to a question Carol has asked that I am hoping a Blog reader can answer. Carol has absolutely perfect teardrop-shaped beads to use among the seaweed. She'd like to use a mesh type ribbon to hold the beads in place. Carol's thinking was to put the beads inside Flair so that they look like they are floating among the ribbon seaweed. But her beads, which are perfect, are 14x10 mm and 11x9mm wide. She doesn't think Flair will stretch enough to hold them. Here are the beads.
She's looked at tubular mesh ribbons which come in two sizes: 6mm and 20mm. You can see the ribbons here.
http://www.beadedlily.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=31&chapter=0
The 6mm size is smaller than her beads and the 20 mm size is a lot larger. Anyone know of a tubular ribbon that is the width of her beads? Anyone know how stretchy this type of tubular ribbon is? If so, please post a comment or email me at chilly hollowat hotmaildotcom and I'll forward the information to Carol.
Carol's going to try stuffing beads inside Flair this weekend. Flair stretches, so it might work. She also is considering cutting strips of panty hose to hold the beads in place. If you see someone in your local clothing store asking where they keep the purple and green panty hose, that'll be Carol.
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| Collection of Designs Package Ornament |
Carol felt badly about not having more progress to show on her Gold Fish, so she also sent me a photo of A Collection of Designs Christmas present ornament she just finished. The pink body of the present is knitting yarn. Yes, that's memory thread coiled under the ribbons on top. The background is just perfect. You can't tell from the photo but it's white with a touch of sparkle.
I think Carol's well on her way to mastering painted canvases, just like she has mastered so many other kinds of needlework.
I'm looking forward to seeing more progress photos of the Gold Fish, and especially how the seaweed works out.
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
6 comments:
Hi Jane. Has she considered doing Applique Flair over the beads? The Flair does stretch nicely. Remember to attach it in a "zig zag" method instead of "along one side then the other" method in order to get the best stretch of the Flair. This technique is shown in Amy's DVD #6, Barely There.
Jane (and Carol),
Could you explain exactly *where* the base tent stitches went? I see blue tent stitches under those fabulous waves ... is that what you mean? Or are there other tent stitches that I'm not seeing? The waves are totally awesome! Wonderful stitch and gorgeous colors. Congrats Carol ... I don't think you have to worry about making progress :)
RobinG, the base tent stitches are on top of the painted seaweed to make it less noticable since background and ribbons goes on top of those areas. We weren't sure the ribbons would completely cover the painted seaweed. For example, there is seaweed in front of the fish just behind it's head and we covered that painted seaweed to make it less noticeable. You can't see the painted seaweed under the background stitches that have been done but the background stitch doesn't totally cover. Carol will stitch the empty spots but we were still worried about "dandruff."
Thanks for the tip, Robin. I'll see that Carol reads your posting about the use of Flair.
Hi everyone--
Thanks for all the tips about the Flair. I actually sat down to see if it will fit over the beads this morning, and I'll be danged, but it does! I need to be careful to make sure it doesn't run, but I think that problem is solved.
Carol
Hurrah!
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