First Christmas ornament
Last night, I finished up the front of the ornament for my cousin's daughter.
This is the first painted canvas I've done without a stitch guide or help from a teacher to start me off. So, what stitches did I use?
- The bottom of the stocking is stitched in nobuko stitch with Vineyard Silks Shimmer. This thread is also used to outline the cuff of the stocking in continental tent.
- The trees are done in a vandyke stitch variation in Mandarin Floss.
- Beads are used as the red dots.
- The ribbon is in Mandarin Floss too - cashmere stitch for the drawstring, and padded spiral satin stitch for the bow.
- The letters are cross stitched with two strands of Mandarin Floss.
- The cuff is stitched in Fuzzy Stuff. I used basketweave around the letters, and hungarian stitch in the more open background areas.
Thanks to Kathy Schenkel for such a fun canvas! I enjoyed figuring out how to stitch it.
4 comments:
What a pretty finish! Thank you for sharing the stitches that you used...I have my very first painted canvas waiting in the wings to be stitched, and was wondering what to do :)
Very, very nice. Though it is funny. I have never USED a stitch guide. Most of my old, old canvases that came in kits, just specified the tent stitch. I used a couple of specialty stitches on Pineapple Fish, but mostly I wanted colors of the variegated silk to predominate, so again, just the tent stitch. I bought a Stitch Guide for the Halloweentown canvases by Melissa Shirley, but have seen them stitched at my LNS and I know I will do some things differently than the Stitch Guide. I did some research on stitches for the Black and Red Box, but most of it I am making up as I go along.
This is beautiful!
All - thanks for the compliments!
Cindy - Up until two years ago, I stitched only counted/charted designs, whether it was cross stitch, canvaswork, hardanger, samplers, etc. I've since had painted canvas classes with both Brenda Hart and Sharon G, which have helped me start to see what stitches & threads to use. Check out this page on the ANG site to help: http://www.needlepoint.org/FAQ/phobia.php
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