Trellis Stitch on canvas

Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to take a class with Rosalie Peters. Even though painting on canvas isn't my thing and I was dreading covering the large space with tent or gobelin stitches, I couldn't resist the cost which was a mere $20 for supplies. Due to an unexpected windfall, my EGA chapter picked up her fee, travel expenses, etc.

My canvas confirmed that I don't have an artist eye or even a regular, sharp eye that can see details and shading as I tried to reproduce the look of the spray of flowers. Despite this shortcoming, I learned something -- instead of using several different paint colors that go from dark to light, start painting with a color that approximates the darkest shade. Then add drops of white, ecru, or light yellow to the tiny cup to create the other shades needed to paint each flower.

BUT even better was seeing some of her finished work. She used very few 'traditional' stitches to fill the shapes. Instead, she pretended she was stitching on cloth and used long/short, satin, fern, fly, button hole, and other embroidery stitches in many places. Quite a few of us were intrigued by the stitches she used for the backgrounds. One was Alicia's Lace and the other was what she said was a trellis stitch. I fell in the love with this stitch because it creates a nicely textured and patterned background and does it quickly!!!! Unfortunately, none of my needlepoint books have a diagram for the variation I want to try. The closest I've found online is step 2's blue lines on

In other words, the background is covered with diamonds and a lot of open space. Ordinarily, I don't worry too much about carrying threads from one place to another. I can't do it with this design because the threads might show through.

Cutting to the chase, can someone point me to an online site or a book that diagrams this stitch? Being quite dense when it comes to following a pattern, I need a picture accompanied by text that says insert needle at 1, come up three threads over at 2, etc.

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anne ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Have you tried classicstitches.com in their glossary? There are a couple of Trellis but I think this is maybe the one you mean.

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anne ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

There is also this link. I would think you would find both easy to follow, they are colour coded and pretty much self explanatory. There is a third, more a needlelace filler and I don't believe that is what you would be looking for.

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"gyrlcentric" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

My system rang bells and sent a security warning when I went to open that link.

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"gyrlcentric" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I use Opera

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lucretia borgia said

I used Netscape for years until AOL messed it up, then switched to Mozilla and currently use Firefox (iow, anything but IE). I got the warning about the certificate but ignored it.

Miz Borgia, thank you for trying. I love Classic Stitches so much that I have a subscription to the magazine. I'm familiar with trellis stitches that are tacked down. Each of the 4 sides of the trellis stitch I'm trying to figure out is stitched.

Miz Gyrlcentric, the woven trellis you found isn't quite right either.

I'm thinking that a double running stitch to do a stair step of the left and then right sides of the diamond might work.

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anne said

I was close. The canvas lace shown on the link below is exactly what I needed.

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't y'all just love it when someone responds to their own message?

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anne ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Ditto - I was in love with Navigator and hate AHole for what they did to it !

If you want a background filler that fills quickly, there is Skip Tent. I don't know that I have seen it in any books, though it may well be. If you know Basketweave, or Diagonal Tent Stitch, that is it except you start in a corner and literally skip, doing alternate stitches. It looks light, and effective and takes half the thread that normal basketweave does, looks nice.

Another Trellis link is

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this one

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had all the Classic Stitches copies since they came out but gave upa couple of years back when I moved here to a condo and donated mymags to my Guild. Best of both worlds, if I want to track anythingdown, I can borrow them from our library lol

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When i read this title i had an idea of somebody stiching round ovalic shapes somehow connected. mirjam

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