Tuesday, March 28, 2017

TUSAL March 2017

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Stitching this month was solely on Jane Turner, still working on Band 8. Got a fair amount accomplished, even though the ort pile is puny.


Now I’m going to cheat a bit. Most of this lunar month’s stitching was in trellis stitch, where you cannot end your thread within a row – only at one end or the other. So when there wasn’t enough thread for another row, I was cutting off several inches at least – far too much to consider an ort and certainly a lot of those bits will be used elsewhere in the sampler. So, here are my non-ort snippets.


The Silly Stitching Days Calendar has 9 check marks since the last TUSAL report. Too bad there aren’t more weekend days each month!

Now, how is Jane looking? First, a peek at the doodle cloth – practicing Montenegrin diagonally and then turning from that to horizontal stitching. Thank goodness for Amy Mitten’s autopsy book!! Also practiced switching back and forth between two colors.


Jane Turner, Band 8 – truly only a bit of progress since my last post.


Happy stitching, all!


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8 comments:

  1. That's a great idea to practice the stitches first.
    Sometimes those scraps of thread come in handy for small motifs.
    Jane is looking great. Love those snakes. :)
    Marilyn

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  2. Huge progress and a smallish heap of ORTs. So many different stitches, I do not know half of them. I admire your patience for stitching things like this, and wow it's pretty.

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  3. Your Jane Turner is certainly one of the most interesting samplers I've seen stitched, Deb! All of those different stitches add up to one amazing piece :)

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  4. The doodle cloth is a great idea. Stitching anything diagonally is a challenge, particularly speciality stitches.

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  5. Wonderful! You're so good with the doodle cloth. I'm very bad at doodling before trying. lol!

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  6. wow doodle cloth is looking so pretty..i love it so much.
    i am your new follower from cucki stitching cove blog.
    love your sweet blog.
    smiles and blessings x

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  7. Wow! This is looking so very amazing now!

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  8. what a beautiful design and pretty stitching, just love it.

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