Eye lashes???

How would you put 3-D eyelashes on your cross stitch project - it's for a sleeping caterpillar. Just has to make you think "eye lashes"... Wishing I had some black "fuzzy stuff" or Whisper

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak
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Turkey stitch. No need for fuzzy, which might even detract. Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

Memory thread? maybe? depending on the size needed.

Donna in Virginia

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Donna

tried that one - you'd need a picture (which I could mail you) but the project is on 10 count PC and needs to be in scale.

I found myself wondering if I have some fine black mohair in the yarn stash...

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Cheryl Isaak

Turkey stitch would still work as long as you used a heavy enough fiber. Then again, how about using false eyelashes? You could trim them to size and then anchor them with invisible thread or some black floss. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary /\___/\

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Tia Mary

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ndjoan

That sounds like a really cute project Cheryl - hope you'll share pictures when it's finished.

Sharon (N.B.)

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Sharon

will do - forgot to ask Margaret if she had any black Whisper

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Cheryl Isaak

I do not have an whisper at all. -Margaret in MA

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Margaret St. John

Black what you're looking for????

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Ellice K.

Turkey work. Snip the loops and comb them out.

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Karen C in Calif

I like that idea!

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Karen C in Calif

yep!

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Cheryl Isaak

Your pile, next to Joan's & now Sue H's is growing. Who else would like one??? Some black whisper will be thrown in the heap - with the rest - priority mail. Monday. For sure.

DH went with us today - after meeting an ANG friend & I for lunch - at a place that had been on Diners, Dives & Drive-ins (or whatever that show is) called La Caraquena - it was fabulous - very clean, great food, not pricey at all, the owner served us - he also cooks - it's tiney. And, best of all

- a couple of blocks from LNS. DH then served as personal shopper for my pal, helping her to much S.E.X. - well supervised by shop owner & myself. But, something was selected for Cheryl - as they spotted it. We then went to yet another LNS - driving the fateful route - albeit successfully this time - and DH flashed his emergency lights so my pal would appreciate the locations - hilarious of course - and she bought yet more stuff. I think if Sheena & Gill assure me they're still stitching, hmmm - some little trinket may also be winging towards them as well. I, however - only indulged in luscious silk buying.

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Ellice K.

I'm in suspense.... C

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Cheryl Isaak
*snip*

You'll like the trinket - it was still hiding in my stitchin' stuff today. Now it's on your postal pile....DH & my pal Joyce did pick it out.

Ack - I'll post some picks on RCTNP tomorrow night when I get back from the workshop. Right now I just got back, and am truly exhausted. I tried - to stich. It is embarassing - I managed to lay a grid - finally - of the first layer - of a 4 layer stitch of an upright trellis which I'm doing with 3 threads (not 4). Literally it took me 2 tries to realize that the pattern diagram of over 14 was a sample, and she wanted me to do it over the entire face of this flower, so the whole thing is compensated on all the edges - one huge grid - keeping the pattern, just ignoring the count so to speak. Meaning both teachers had to come by - part of the problem being I asked, told Beth - teacher 1 that I would just lay the grid from the center & compensate the edges - so she thought I understood - but I thought okay, I'll do the first block of 14 by 14 & then establish a pattern & work around. Whoops - so Suzanne looked & said ut -oh = conference - I just cut out & wasted about 1/2 yard of silk, and then understood.

Took me a while to find a good start - the first layer is like laying a box grid - all the vertical lines full height, then full width - spaced 4 threads between. So, imagine an open daylily face - that's essentially what I'm stitching in a luscious deep kind of orangey-to rosey colos for that layer. I think it's colled Holiday. So, all the N-S threads, then all the E-W, and these pretty much are now all started & ended with buried little pin-stitches (I hope) that will hide in either the leaves of adjacent foliage or the grid filling. The grid is the most receding.

Next layer is a corner thing like scotch stitches sort of - over 2, over 3, facing so that the center of each grid box will look like a diamond. However, being a mush brain, it takes me a while to realize the diagram has been compensated on the top row - duh. That layer is all done in 3 strands of Fresh Raspberries in Belle Soie from Crescent... Yummmie. This will be the most dominant I think, and has a good bit of variation down to some paleness.

Then the center - which gives the dark but will recede behind the fuschia of the raspberry Belle soie is either and upright cross or a regular X - they alternate - done in 2 strands of Glorians Dark Cherry. It's not as brilliant.

My tablemate cheered when I finally got the first layer of the grid in - it looks pretty cool. The petals are all open - you're looking full face into the flower, so the grid disappears & then reappears as I just went behind. Which when I go to stith the surrounding areas - either the Parrot or leaves or background (especially) will be a PITA as I'll have to slip that thread in front of the darker flower - but it's okay. And when I finish, then I'll just but the stamens/pistil stuff back on top with some surface thing - or beads - yeah beads.

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Ellice K.

I am still stitching. Went into a major slump after stepson's suicide last May. Felt totally BLAH. I have packed several projects to take with me this summer (leaving on the 27th for several months)...and have a fun item at the Framer for me to give to DD. Not a birthday thing...but I cannot believe she will be 50 this week. heck, I don't feel any older than that LOL.

Gill

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Gillian Murray

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