Posted some Pix

Lovely - I like the greens in Twister and the way they shade.

MargW

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Thanks, Marg. The original colorway is deep blue and gold, with an orange kick. The designer provides for a Grey-Rose and another Blue with something. None of those really suit me, so it took me a while, and I came up with the green-purple variation. The idea of the project is it's an exercise in color graduation, and texture/light. I had a tough time with the greens - getting a nice graduation of 7 shades - so this is actually 2 green families of NP silks. I wasn't quite sure, as there is a biggish step between the dark and med-dark tones (2-3) but I think they flow well. I have the dark purple, and next tone down on now. Those pix coming later.

Evidently, the crew taking my series of "fun" canvas work like my ideas for colors, and now it's become a habit for me to come up with colorways for them. For this project I did 2. For one in the fall/winter - I actually did 4, and that was a lot of work because they were various types of threads being used for a whole gamut of stitch types. The next class, Amethyst Dreams, from Laura Perrin - I've agreed to do 2 colorways (no one wants the purple) but that's it!

Ellice

Gorgeous as always.... Cheryl

Thanks - thought I'd post since I've been doing some whining as I go blind putting in little, tiny tent stitches, or part motifs in the compensation areas.

Ellice

Beautiful work Ellice. I love Twister. It's just the kind of thing I like to do.

I still have a pillow somewhere in the back of my closet from the 60's or

70's that was just such an exercise. That one used lots of colors and a gazillion different stitches. I chose to do it on a tiny piece of leftover canvas with tiny holes and then I just appliqued it on top of the pillow.

I wonder where I put it?

I think it came from either a Woman's Day or Family Circle Magazine and was supposed to be a learning experience. Great fun to do.

Lucille

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Thanks, Lucille. I feel kind of guilty as in not putting my stitching where my mouth is at times - since I really forget about posting pix.

I bet your piece is lots of fun, to look at, and was to do. I'm enjoying doing the Twister - with a certain amount of moaning along the way. I'm sort of wishing that I had used Soie Cristalle instead of the NP silks. The NP silks give the right coverage, but they're a bit twisty for my taste in doing something that requires so much parallel & laid stitching. But, they are lusciously soft in hand.

For a change, I'm working diligently on this, and virtually do a happy dance as each triangle motif is finished! It's nice that I'm doing some of the purple/lavendar now. And did baste in the edge lines - after hatefully counting the 145 threads from center in each direction.

Well, hope you find your piece from the Mod days! Got to run.

Ellice

Love the twister project! And your colorways are excellent choices!

Sue

It's lovely. And it's grand to see progress.

Donna in Virginia

I am really glad you posted those - it's gorgeous. More, please!

Will it make you feel better if I mention that I think Soie Cristalle has crappy coverage? Of all the silks I've used, it always feels the chintziest to me.

I love pieces that have discrete stages like that, so I can celebrate as I finish each stage. Keeps me motivated.

Elizabeth

Thanks, Sue. I've had my doubts a bit about the steps, but as it now has some of the purple down, I'm liking it. Once the border is on, with others that I've seen the entire piece really sings. Someone from one of the ANG chapters suggested I might use an overdye for part of the border - if I can find one with the right colorways. So, I'm contemplating that. We'll see.

Ellice

LOL- thanks, and yes. I'm back to my "original" time estimeate - kind of. Which, for the crew here - I had estimated at about 180 hours, plus border time, thinking about 90 min a motif. But, I had revised that up - as Donna has been with me muttering and stitching on it. So, now I still think for someone using a stand, two-hands stitching, it's surely 90 min - 2.5 hours a motif (depending upon size, stitch, and compensation). So, I'm thinking the entire project is closer to 300 hours for an average spped stitcher.

I'm hopeful that the entire first quadrant will be finished by the end of this weekend (so I can start prep for the next different class project).

Ellice

Thanks so much. I just posted a couple. I will continue, as they get done.

Well, ok. Actually, far and away the worst silk I've used is the Vicki Clayton regular stuff. Lovely feel, but the skeins fell apart just as we unpacked the, knots, thin, etc. I also am not fond of Eterna silk. I'm amazed that you had problems with Soie Cristalle - that's unusual. I use a lot of Waterlilies - and have always been happy with it. Thanks for making me feel better - it may just be my anality WRT who is taking this class from me, etc.

Exactly - while the piece is big - it lets me realize progress, and about the time I'm sick of some stitch and the weird compensation I can move on to the next area.

Ellice

I agree! I have some big things going, and it gets depressing sometimes with how long it takes to see results. When I saw Rosewood Manor's "And a Forest Grew,"

picked it up and am *so* enjoying it because each little piece is discrete. It's great fun to pick up and put down when I need a bit of instant gratification! In two hours' stitching time, I can either do one letter "over one" on

32-ct linen on the big piece I'm working on, or I can finish A WHOLE TREE on the Forest. Sometimes I just need to be the Lady of the Forest!

Sue

Totally understandable. Sue, you could come visit the shop someday. We have And a Forest Grew as a project for anyone to work on - sitting on huge scroll rods - so you could come and feel right at home!

Ellice

What a brilliant idea for a group project - having it available as a "drop-in" shop project. Cool!

Sigh...yes, someday I will have to make the trip to visit your shop. If only I didn't have SABLE already...and didn't have to drive right past Stitching Post along the way.

Sue

And what does that have to do with anything?

Sue, If you're ever coming to visit the Scarlet Thread, let me know and I'll be there, too!

Donna in Virginia who is admiring a new feature for posting through google.groups - word verification to keep out the spammers!

LOL = totally understandable about the SABLE....Just live forever - or something like that.

Ellice

Yup - it would be fun - we could do a lunch thing, etc....with stitching time.

Ellice