"Which are your favorite and least favorite fabrics to stitch on?"
Favorite is easy - Lugana or Jobelin in either 28 or 32 counts. I tend toward neutrals and white but if a color works with a pattern, I will go with it.
Least favorite - AIDA when it's got slippery polyester threads woven in and loosely woven, slub-filled linens. Least favorite color, regardless pf fabric is black...
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What I stitched on in July:
1. Fox & Rabbit's Patreon "Temperature Chart" for the year 2023. Stitched on 28 ct. "Star Sapphire" Gobelin (although it looks more pale green than "sapphire" to me) using DMC floss. I'm stitching the day's low on the left side of the hearts and the high on the right side. All temperatures are based on the recorded highs and lows from an online "past weather" temperature chart for near-by Bowling Green, Ohio (we don't have a reliable outdoor temperature thermometer for our home so I'm assuming same ZIP code, similar temperature, although that isn't totally accurate). I am pretty much keeping up with the days, waiting until I have roughly five days of temperatures charted to stitch each session. I spend the rest of the time on the border and the hangers. (the picture below shows temperatures through July 15:
Least favorite - AIDA when it's got slippery polyester threads woven in and loosely woven, slub-filled linens. Least favorite color, regardless pf fabric is black...
~~~~~WIPs~~~~~
What I stitched on in July:
1. Fox & Rabbit's Patreon "Temperature Chart" for the year 2023. Stitched on 28 ct. "Star Sapphire" Gobelin (although it looks more pale green than "sapphire" to me) using DMC floss. I'm stitching the day's low on the left side of the hearts and the high on the right side. All temperatures are based on the recorded highs and lows from an online "past weather" temperature chart for near-by Bowling Green, Ohio (we don't have a reliable outdoor temperature thermometer for our home so I'm assuming same ZIP code, similar temperature, although that isn't totally accurate). I am pretty much keeping up with the days, waiting until I have roughly five days of temperatures charted to stitch each session. I spend the rest of the time on the border and the hangers. (the picture below shows temperatures through July 15:
2. Lakeside Needlecraft "Happiness is Handmade" SAL, designed by Durene Jones. Stitched with the recommended DMC floss on a wide (very slippery) Aida band. Installments one through 8 are complete, installment 9 is nearly so - although not without MAJOR "personalizations" (and I am still contemplating some backstitching), installment 10 is in progress, and installment 11 has been issued.
3. Fox & Rabbit Mystery SAL for 2023, "Royal Gardens". Stitching on 32ct Lugana "pale green" (this isn't an accurate color in this photo) using Threadworx Overdyed Floss 1048 "Woodland Green" throughout. I am pleased with the slight variation in the green thread so I've decided to not mess with additional colors. I have finished the January installment (sans border outlines and two areas of backstitching) with two major stitching errors that I will have to fudge around (because I didn't notice them until several rows of stitching and was NOT going to frog weeks wort of work to "fix" ). I have the February through July pattern installments in hand, while August is due any day now!. I'm really not enjoying the stitching as much as I usually do on a Fox & Rabbit sampler because of this, and find motivation to keep this one going in my rotation a chore.
4. Stitchonomy SAL for 2023 "Kingdom's of Life". I'm a member of the pattern club so I receive installments "early" and can't post progress on any installment until the general stitching community gets their installments. I am significantly behind on this one because I am editing colors on the fly and that slows me down a lot. All I have finished so far (their frame, the bacteria and the plants) are shown below. I have all the installments in hand now and I want to do some editing on two before I proceed.
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That sums up my July stitchery progress. As in my June report, progress was interfered with by craft-space (it's not really a room. but half a basement space) reorganization.
As usual, I say I hope to do better in future but we shall see...
That sums up my July stitchery progress. As in my June report, progress was interfered with by craft-space (it's not really a room. but half a basement space) reorganization.
As usual, I say I hope to do better in future but we shall see...
