About Darning Stitches

SharonG Bra with Darning Stitch Deer Background*

You have probably seen darning stitch backgrounds here and there without really understanding how they are done.  Vicky DeAngelis to the rescue!  Pay close attention to the margins of her canvas where she does little | stitches to turn the thread before stitching another vertical row.
http://mostlyneedlepoint.com/still-love-that-man-in-uniform/

SuZy Murphy has a book that is all darning patterns called SuZy's Darn Stitches.
http://www.pfos.com/SalePages/PocketFullofStitchesNeedlepointBooks.htm

Brenda Hart's two Favorite Stitches books and her Stitches for the Millennium all have a few darning patterns in them as well.
http://bristlythistle.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/new-needlepoint-books-from-brenda-hart-june-mcknight/

From personal experience I can tell you to use long lengths of thread as you can't stop in the middle of a row.  Threads that drag from one motif to the next will show so make sure each row is stitched the same way so that the shadows all look the same from the front.

*For new readers of Blog, the camouflage bra and tap pants set is from SharonG.  I stitched it several years ago.  Here are the links to my old articles if you are curious.
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/01/camouflage-bra-and-tap-pants-set.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/01/camouflage-lingerie-threads.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-beads-are-not-alike.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-size-beads-for-what-size-lingerie.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/01/bead-and-stars-tidbits.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/by-way.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/rushing-around-before-more-snow.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/bra-with-beads.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/bra-beads.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/beaded-bra.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/better-beaded-bra-and-more.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/comparing-beading-techniques.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/now-we-wait.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/camo-tap-pants-done-stars-started.html

http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2010/02/sharong-camouflage-bra-and-tap-pants.html

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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
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What a Lingerie Buyer Does in Needlepoint

My Camouflage Bra and Tap Pants Canvases

You may not know that the famous SharonG started her working career as a lingerie buyer.  That may explain seven pages of painted canvases of bra and tap pants sets on her website.
http://sharong.com/catalog/bras/index.html

There are corsets as well. Here's a snazzy leopard print one. I'm sorry I can't find others for you to see online.  They are gorgeous!
http://www.needlepointyaya.com/Sale_Canvases.html

I'm not the only one charmed by SharonG lingerie.  Check out what Robin King did.
http://needlepointstudyhall.blogspot.com/2010/02/kitty-bra-tap-pants-are-finished.html

Two years ago I stitched the above pair of canvases.  I thought folks would like to reread how I got from the photo above to the one below.  (I know some of you remember but there are lots of new visitors here at Blog.)  Start at this link, then keep clicking on Newer Posts to follow my needlepoint lingerie journey.  You won't believe what SharonG suggested I do to this canvas!
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/search?q=bra+and+tap+pants

Finished Camo Set

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and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com

The Camouflage Bra and Tap Pants Set

As you probably guessed from yesterday's posting, my next project is one of SharonG's bra and tap pants sets. You can see many of her lingerie items on her website.  My camouflage bra and tap pants canvases are on page 4.
http://www.sharong.com/catalog/bras/index.html

The above designs are on two 9x9 pieces of 18 count canvas.  I've owned these two canvases for a while.  They're a sort of joke as Chilly Hollow is very rural and in the middle of a mature oak forest. This means we are plagued by trespassing hunters almost every fall out to shoot deer.  I've been wondering how to frame the set (two matching frames?  a big frame with two-holed mat?) and how to stitch them the whole time I've owned them.

Then last fall an incredible resource opened up in the shape of a SharonG cyberclass on stitching her canvases sponsored by the Shining Needle Society.  The class is an ongoing one and is called The SharonG Network.  You can sign up for three month's worth or the whole year for a discount.  Head to the SNS website to join the Shining Needle Society and their Yahoo Group to see details about the class.  The next quarter should start in February.  I'll post details here when registration for the second quarter is open.
http://www.shiningneedlesociety.com/

I signed up for the year and my first quarter's canvas was my camo bra and tap pants set.  SharonG has fabulous ideas for this canvas and with her help and encouragement, I'm coming up with more.  She has graciously agreed to let me stitch-blog the canvases here as I buckle down and stitch it.

Let me just say, what she suggested is about the last thing I would have thought of....

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow