Blackwork In Red & Green

 

I last told you about this on  April 12, 2024

I finished it on May 13. It was a Group Correspondence course through EGA. Designed by Ginger Gouger  Miller (Copyright 1997 and re-written in 2000). I believe it may be a retired project.

I worked on it off and on. It was a fun stitch. Now I just need to figure out what to finish-finish it as!

HAPPY STITCHINIG!!

Blackwork in Red and Green

 This is a retired Embroiderers Guild of America, Inc. (EGA) Group Correspondence course (GCC) by Ginger Gouger Miller (c) 1997 and rewritten in 2000. 

I have the pages in a 1/2 inch three-ring binder and keep started it in June of 2021. I ran into a problem with the instructions (they referenced some diagrams that were not in the instructions). So I put it down and  have been moving it around my studio when I need to declutter for the cleaners. I finally decided to just stitch it so I could stop moving it around so much. 

When I picked it up I had two steps to complete the enter red section. I could not find the diagrams referred to, so I used the cover photo to figure it out. Once I got past that problem this is my progress as of April 6.

 

I have been working on this during baseball games and as of April 9 below is as far as I have gotten.

You probably can't tell it yet, but this is a tomoto pin cushion with a spool of thread and pins in the cushion. I am hoping for more progress on this now that baseball season has begun.

I am still working on Saguaro Sunrise and the Game is On! Both with minimal progress so nothing to report on those.

I thought I would close this post with a photo of Coco. This is what it looks like behind me to my left when I cook. As you see she was very interested in the ham I was dicing for soup.

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It is my birthday month = more posts?? & GCC Assissi

This is my birthday month. So my gift to you (har har, too big for my britches) is more posting! Here is a picture of the critique I got back recently for my GCC Assisi. The instructor was Marion Scoular and you will see that she hand writes all her critiques (and courses too). Very classy and nice handwriting too. You would never be able to read it if I wrote it out by hand! Also pictured is my completion certificate from EGA. Sorry the picture is not great, but since it is not the actual stitching I am letting it go as is!

Now to get back to work on my French Sewing Box!

10,000 visitor and Assisi embroidery update

As commenter Hillery noticed on my previous post I missed my 10,000th visitor not my 1,000th. My husband will tell you I am digitally challenged at times, but usually I add the extra zero not leave it out!

Here are two pictures of my final project for the GCC I am working on. The top is how far I had gotten by the end of the day on Aug. 26 and the next photo is the finished project. I worked on it this am during my EGA Saturday group meeting. Next I need to clean them up a bit, press them and send them off for the critique.  I used the design Marion gave us. I just did not have time to work one up for myself.

Also, on the 17th Blu asked how I was going to finish these. I am not sure. I may keep the thimbles with the instructions as a reference or make them into small pincushions or maybe sew them together and frame them or make a small wall hanging. Any ideas? They are not very big. I left the needle in the final piece for a size reference (top left corner). Also, if I recall I cut the fabric for the final piece approx. 6 inches square. The thimbles are smaller maybe 2.5" x2.5". I may frame the butterfly piece and put it in my studio - unless it clashes too much with the peach painted walls I have in there!

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Assisi Embroidery Part 3

Here is part three of the Group Correspondence Course (GCC) I am taking called Assisi by Marion Scoular. Part three (green) is similar to part one (blue) but the filling for green is the N stitch rather than cross stitch. I give you the fronts and this time the backs too! Oh so brave. The backs are not perfect, but I think they are pretty good. The final part is an origianl design or the one Marion provided. Not sure what I will do yet, but I have some threads picked out in the red family.

Fronts

Backs

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Assisi Embroidery GCC Update

On the left is part one and on the right is part 2. There are 4 parts total, three thimbles with different stitches and an original design or one she gives us which is a bit larger and we need to use what we learned in parts 1 - 3 to stitch it. No numbering is provided! More details in a previous post.

The main difference between the two is the purple has angles for parts of the thimble, along with a design in the thimble top, and I used the light color to outline the filling cross stitches. On the blue you can see that I used dark blue for this part. I am working on part three and have the thimble done, but now doing a doodle cloth to figure out how to do the filling stitch - the N stitch - and have it be reversible. The filling, whether they are cross stitch, N stitch or even long armed cross, are a bit tricky in the areas that increase or decrease in size if you want the back to look correct. Part three is in greens and I hope to have a picture of is soon!!

Finally back to stitching! Assisi Embroidery GCC

I was away in Boston for 24 days for work. We were very busy working 10 - 12 hour days M-F, 8 hrs on Sat and one Sunday a few of us had to work 4 hours! A new team took over Thursday and my team arrived home on Friday. I was so tired at the end of the days I did not get any stitching done!  I was working on an EGA Group Correspondence Course (GCC) - Assisi by Marion Scoular. The deadline for submission was July 21, but when I explained to her my situation she graciously gave me an extension, and permission to post my progress on my blog. So here goes.

The course involves making three small pin cushions with thimble designs. I am doing them all on 28 count off white evenweave fabric and DMC floss - all from stash. The design size of each of the three pin cushions are 1.5" wide by 2.25" tall. Each thimble is stitched a bit different and the last design is a larger one we design, or we can use the one she provides. Here is the first thimble.

First I stitched the thimble outline in dark blue, then the other outlines. All outlines all done using running stitch. The last step was the light blue cross stitches. Assisi embroidery involves the background being stitched and the design motif is not stitched, but outlined. I was not aware of the outlined part until I took this course. It has been fun so far and I learned a cool tip to help keep the running stitch lines straight.