Comfort stitching

anne · 2007-10-01T15:37:12+00:00

This may repeat an earlier 'survey' but I'm stuck inside due to fall allergies and meds to combat those allergies.Some, most, all of us have embroidery techniques, designers, subject matter, materials (fibers, grounds, etc.) that we do when we want to be comforted, not challenged, by projects. Think of this as chicken soup for the stitcher.After spending most of the summer experimenting with bead embroidery, I needed something easy. I went web surfing for inspiration for a medallion-ish thing to adorn a padded photo album for my neice's upcoming Bat Mitzvah. When I saw a Star of David paperweight, light bulbs started to go off -- I would do a similar Star in colonial knots. My first attempt was good but the I didn't like the dark blue ground so I did another one on white dupioni. Doing all those knots was almost a mindless activity and just what I needed.Now I'm working on Wild About Pansies, an Elsa Williams' surface embroidery kit done mostly in wool with long/short stitches. It's nice not to have to think about what fibers or colors to use.Your turn -- What's your comfort stitching?

Oct 01, 2007 21 Replies

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Tia Mary 17 years ago

Pirjo -- it's been sooooo long since I have seen any posts from you! Have you been away from RCTN or has my newsgroup provider just been deleting your posts?? Either way, I am very happy to see you back again :-))). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Pirjo Ilvesvuori 17 years ago

Hi Tia Mary! I know. I have been absent for a long time. But right now I think I just read about the stitching. I stitched yesterday and the day before yesterday, though. I visited some friends, so the needle smoked while I stitched a project without a deadline. Best: Pirjo

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