tickwinking

I couldn't find 'tickwinking' on the site, anne. I'll have a closer look later. Do you mean 'candlewicking', the one where you build up a design with french knots? It's usually done in fluffy écru cotton on an unbleached écru background (calico/muslin).

I have a friend who recently made an enormous candlewicked quilt. It's absolutely encrusted with beautifully embroidered floral designs and the blocks are sashed with crocheted lace. She did quilt-as-you-go so that every time she visited, we got to see each new block. Last I spoke to Judy (that's her name), she was making the same quilt in blue threads on a white background.

Rajmahal has one of those sites that makes one grit ones teeth -- not=20 all the links work on all the pages so one is lucky if one finds what=20 one is looking for. Try this:

--=20 another anne, add ingers to reply

I found the tickwinking page! It seems to be adding isolated creative stitches to a painted background. I couldn't find any references to it outside the rajmahal kits, though.

I've emailed them asking what tickwinking is ... If it's what you think it is, I'm a tickwinker and proud of it ;-)

Here's what Louise of Rajmahal said about tickwinking:

"Tickwinking is a new concept. It is basically paint by numbers for stitchers. it is very simple (basically long crossed stitches). Suitable for 7-8 years of age and up. or older people who have vision problems. Or indeed anyone who wants to do something quick and easy. The kits are complete include a stitch and hang frame."

Now we know what it is but I'd love to know where they got the name, tickwinking. A search of Australian slang dictionaries didn't turn up anything.

Sounds ike someone , who has a Tick in one of his/her eyes and winks unwillingly !!!! Sorry couldn`t resist THAT ,, !!!!, But seriously , Ticking , is an old name for a very close -woven strong fabric , made of tightly spun cotton yarns. Tradionaly it was woven with dyed threads , in a pattern of thick and thin stripes on a a white background. mirjam

I thought I had heard the term ticking before and had a vague notion that it was used for sheets and pillow cases at one time.

I always heard the term ticking connected with the heavy cotton covering on a mattress. Nearly every mattress I ever saw until recent years was white with blue striping.

Lucille

Lucille wrote: > I always heard the term ticking connected with the heavy cotton covering on

You are right, but it also refers to the pillow covering esp. of down pillows.

Dianne

Not far off - for mattresses and pillows actually. I'm old enough to remember them.

Joyce in RSA.

After getting the first explanation of tickwinking from Rahmajal, I wrote back: "It sounds like what I know as needle or thread painting. One last question: how did you come up with tickwinking as the name?"

Here's what Louise, gatekeeper to emails, replied: "It is basically long crossed stitches that are reasonably wide apart. Needle painting is much closer stitching. The pictures on the website show it reasonably clearly I think, The name was one of the many inventions of our art director."

If she thinks the pictures on the web site show minute details, she has (a) a much better monitor than I do, (b) better eyesight than I do, (c) all of the above.

Someone posted close ups of the owl and it was, indeed, long cross stitches used as "fill", with spaces in between. Didn't float my boat, but that's beside the point.

The balance of the piece is painted on.

Dianne

anne wrote:

I'm having both a bout of blurry vision and a bout of really-slow-dial-up-itis, so can you explain "long cross-stitch"? Are we talking the kind where one leg is twice as long as the other, or are we talking huge beginner-project stitches?

Ah, "embellished cross stitch".

Not really, Karen. It isn't embellished cross stitch. It's not cross stitch at all. It's like making a very wide "x". And I mean very wide and narrow.

It's truly a beginner project, child's project, or something for anyone that can't see well but wants to do hand work. Quick little projects.

Dianne

Karen C >> Someone posted close ups of the owl and it was, indeed, long cross