Floral Glove Needlecase – On Line Project Begins

You all must have thought I had fallen of the planet- but no just,  really hectic with life.

I have managed to do some stitching.  I am working on a new design as well as sewing samples for the store for  the upcoming craft craft show in March.  I will post some pictures of these soon. 

Today, I’m  all excited about starting my Floral Glove Needlecase.

Thanks to Tricia Wilson Nguyen and the Thistle Threads team for the opportunity to re-create a little piece of history.

At last all of my goodies have arrived.  After receiving my notes and instructions for the first month, I just couldn’t wait for my threads and goodies to arrive.  You know what they say – through rain,  hail and snow – and with the horrendous weather conditions in the States, it was literally through SNOW!  But they arrived safe and sound and I couldn’t wait to get started.

With my email instructions arriving in the previous week, I had plenty of time to read through the instructions.  I found the instructions and diagrams for long and short stitch comprehensive and informative and gleaned a few little tips for improving my satin stitch.   I loved the close ups of the stitched examples provided.  I have referred to them regularly while stitching and it is the next best thing to having the teacher with you – in fact it tops that!  I can refer to the samples whenever I need to – got to love that!

 

The design was already traced onto the linen fabric.  As with most linen fabrics, the surface of the fabric is slightly uneven due to the slubs in the threads and this has caused the traced lines to a bit "wobbly".  However as you will see once the area has been stitched, this is not an issue.

I haven’t used the Au Ver a Soie Soie Paris before.  It is so smooth and lustrous. It blends together beautifully when doing long and short stitch and glides through the previous stitches with ease.

 

 
I think my long and short stitch is less structured than the examples provided in our notes however I am reasonably pleased with the end result.

The next area to be stitched this month is the small leaves under the carnations and some small blue flowers.

So I had better get to work as I also have to complete the right hand side before next months instructions arrive.