I have decided to stitch another female nude.

Try this for Tom and Lily

around - on this page it Romeo & Juliette et Cie, This page has the Animl Jokes - for lack of a better translation. The Chickens with Tap shoes is hysterical in aris. around, there's one with Leaping frogs, wearing crowns "plouf,Grenouilles"

Anyhow, I finally couldn't resist, and started Romeo & Juliette. I'll put a pic on RCTNP soon - it's on Crossed Wings "blueberry" and has some mix of overdyes, plus I'm using Bijoux mixed with the dark in the head feathers, and lower ones.

Raise the Rood:

down, you'll find the mermaid. I also have the "Scooba Dooba" to dofor the crazy SIL. And eventually, I believe Cheryl is getting a packagewith "pretty weed" . I don't love all of their stuff, but it is pretty quirky.

Ellice

Have a good bit of the Anagram stuff in the shop. Works up beautifully, and is generally all XS. Some intriguing things inside the designs. Same with Dessins - with items like Dragon Rondelay.

(website was slow earlier)

ellice

I'll go all over the place - some floral, some whimsy, some Mission/ Prairie style stuff.... Don't generally do Disney, like the CM Barker Flower Fairies, but don't care for the more "generic" ones and won't stitch fantasy.

C

Maureen`s a girl after my own heart - there`s nothing I loathe more than flower fairies and certain angels! LOL! A close second in my refuse-to-do list is a cartoon character of any kind, and I`m reluctantly stitching a "Toy Shelf" from Cross stitch Gold, at the moment, as I have a new great-niece or nephew due in a few week`s time.

Avtually, I`m rather enjoying this one, which has dolls, clowns, teddybears. a yacht, an elephant and a soldier (so will do nicely for either sex) and has a nice amount of varity.

But fairies? YUCK! Good thing we`re not all the same though.

Pat

Joanne when you Monochrome patterns, did you ever try working with a Varigated thread of that color ,,? mirjam

Thank you for the delightful pages , had to smile at the nice ideas. mirjam

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When i want to make a present for a new baby , i tend to make appliques with Numbers and letters . Foe example a house with 4 windows, a wash line with 5 clothes hanging on it ,,, 7 flowers in the `garden` near the house, 1 Aeroplane in the sky, or 1 sun in the sky , etc.... Letters are connected to the Hebrew word. But i read your joy in making that embroidery , mirjam

Not Joanne, but it's a beautiful way to do the monochrome patterns. Lots of fun in choosing just how much variation - so that you still get the effect of the design without distraction, but a bit of "oomph" so to speak.

I'm doing the Needleprint chart "Amager Panel 1799" in a TG SnC - and have been all over the place in picking a thread. The original piece was done in blue, as it is Dutch, and reflective of Delft. But, I'm doing it in a deep golden to slightly green color, on a deep, green hand-dye. I'm still not sure, but we'll see. I also did a Dessin's Parrot - in a brilliant varied green-fuschia SnC, on a paler tropical green and pinks fabric from Crossed Wing. Hmmm, and a Der Feine Faden "old MacDonald" on Weeks 30 ct Linen (linen) in a subtle Brown/chestnut Belle Soie - just a bit of shading.

You can tell I really like this idea. But, it takes a bit more work to pick well than I thought at first. Hmmm, guess I ought to get these finish, finished and some pics up (plus some have to go up in the shoop).

Ellice

One of my friends took a canvas class at a stitching seminar that used what I think were one of the oh so gorgeous multicolor Caron threads. What struck me as 'special' (and just possibly a bit wasteful) was that parts of the design were done with the same colors. I don't know how the lengths were cut to ensure this or if unwanted color segments were discarded.

Overdyes usually are varigated to some degree or another.

When I've been instructed to do this, it has involved cutting out unwanted segements of color and paying careful attention to directionality of threads in terms of color repetitions. I keep the snippets for making paper or for collage, so it doesn't really strike me as wasteful, especially if the result is pleasing.

Elizabeth

There's a war going on between genetics and environment when it comes to my stitching -- my folks were extremely frugal, reused plastic cups and utensils, and bought not one, not two, but five or six items when they were on sale. It's hard for me to throw anything away and I buy more supplies than I can possibly use when I see bargains. I also have mild panic attacks when I've almost exhausted my stash of an item. T'ain't easy being me

Maybe we were brought up in the same house?

My friends laugh at me because I MUST replace something as soon as it's humanly possibly just in case I need it and it's not right there.

In today's day and age, when stores are almost always close by, why do I have to run?

Who knows!!!

Lucille

Me, too.

DBF used to joke "don't you have enough tuna/PB/spaghetti?" when I hit the sales and stocked up. Then I went on that experimental medication that did what it was supposed to at the expense of leaving me more impaired, and for three months, I did not feel up to leaving the house except to go to the doctor. I ate for three months out of my pantry, only needing him to grab milk and bread. Now he understands the value of having food stockpiled.

I always thought/think that the whole idea/goal of using varigated or multycolor threads was in the In the SURPRISE element. Ok i have knitted am entrelac sweater with Varigated wool , preknitted aguague to know how the color will look in a certain size of `square`, But i still had some nice unplanned surprise places, which i love very much. It wouldn`t occure to me to cut Certain length of varigated threads when using it in any technique, i feel that varigated threads are closest to natural coloring, where most things aren`t 100% Identical. I also like to embroider Layers of different varigated colors with the same basis color. mirjam

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If you didn`t want those Color segments , why not use a thread that doesn`t have them at all ? mirjam

I know what you write/say Anne, When we were young we were glad if we could find all the Colors we wished for. We worked with what we had and used it to the last mm. Bargains are wonderful , but i taught myself , to think 3 times before i but them, i look at them, moove away ,, look at other things, if i feel i need to go back i still rethink it. It feels better , when i know i can share it with another fiberist... mirjam

Some of my most Creative solutions, happened because i had to make without something, not because i had plenty of choiches, eventually many of `those ` solutions became the best parts of my works. In One xst part i wanted to Simile a GARDEN Background between buildings... , my solution was threading several needles with different colors and stitching 3-6 x with one color than 3-6 with another everytime grouping then as "i felt' that it would look like a mini flower. everytime i concentrated on THAT mini flower , like there was nothing else around it ... mirjam