There is a real mix of threads here. The pale purple/blue towards the bottom was from the sky of Wild Thyme Fairy. That's sandwiched between some orts from A New Beginning. I then have some from Hedgerow Birds, the huge pile of white is from my lace, and the pinks on top from Hedgerow Birds again. There's a lot of pink because the froggies came a visiting on Thursday...
Here's a (pretty dreadful) photo of Hedgerow Birds:
Initially I found that although I enjoy working on this loose weave, low count fabric (20ct), my stitches were quite wonky. I've finally figured out how to get them to lie better with less overlapping of threads, so the area to the right (stitched this week) is much neater. Maybe the back will be perfect ;). Oh, and those frogs. Like an idiot I stitches all of the flowers in pink, totally missing that two were in purple! I was half way through the J (in pink) when I realised. All sorted now.
And now my credit card bill has been issued I'm off to do a little online retail therapy. After all, I NEED that apple cider to use on Hedgerow Birds, and just one skein would be a real waste of postage charges...
Happy Stitching :)
8 comments:
Nice progress - I hope the frogs will leave you alone now!
A beautiful collection of ORTs this cycle!
It's a great collection of orts. I think the frogs have been hopping quite a bunch lately!
Don't feel too bad, I did the very same thing until I was surfing the internet late last night and found TUSAL posts starting to crop up, just posted mine today too.
Oh, and with the price of postage these days you really should make the most of it. One skein of thread really isn't enough by itself to justify an online order:) Have fun!
Totally agree about postage costs! I love sites that offer free postage over a certain amount - great incentive to spend just a little bit more.
Like we need the encouragement to do that!
What pretty layers in your ort jar! I hate loosely woven linens!!!
It's looking lovely, great progress.
Your lace is stunning.
Great progress!
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