Seeding Backgrounds (with Chicken Tracks)

An embroidery technique for backgrounds is "seeding" which is the scattering of small stitches across the background with each equal in size and spaced at an equal distance from each other.  Tracy Franklin learned this at the Royal School and is using the technique (which she explains well) on an original design.
http://tracyafranklin.blogspot.com/2015/01/crathorne-bug-seeding.html

I've seen a similar technique called chicken tracks in hand embroidery which also scatters small stitches on the background but in chicken tracks the stitches vary in length and overlap each other.  If you use 2-3 overdyed threads in green, for example, and just stitch hither and yon with them, you can create a very nice grassy background.

Interesting embroidery techniques like these are perfect for needlepoint.

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Michael Frames for an Audience

Michael at Hanging Around Hoover just posted a video of framing a needlepoint cross on Facebook so folks could see the various steps involved.   He says this job took about 45 minutes since the cross didn't have to be blocked.  This was done several years ago before he had a computerized mat board cutter.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=811472428906164&set=vb.173093842744029&type=2&theater

Now you know why framing's so expensive.  It's very labor intensive!

Here's the shop website, by the way.
http://www.hangingaroundhoover.com

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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright March 28, 2015 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.