underatopazsky posted: " It's taken two months, but I have sort of moved the Ruskin Lace on. When I showed you the project at the beginning of June I'd worked the hem and had started to withdraw some of the threads. And there it sat for two months while I tried to find t" Under A Topaz Sky
It's taken two months, but I have sort of moved the Ruskin Lace on. When I showed you the project at the beginning of June I'd worked the hem and had started to withdraw some of the threads.
And there it sat for two months while I tried to find the courage and opportunity to move it on. Which I finally did this weekend. Carefully re-reading the instructions and checking what I'd already done, I withdrew the remaining threads for the four-sided stitch border. I'm still not quite sure if they are required for anything in the design so I've just pinned them back for now.
Next, the four-sided stitch border. This was a little different to the four-sided stitch I've used in Casalguidi and other pulled thread work as the working thread wraps around each group of threads twice. But once I got into the rhythm it stitched up nice and quickly. I'm using a natural linen thread which is nearly the same colour as the linen and as the weave is very open, it's made much more of a feature of the stitch.
So this is as far as I've got with the Ruskin lace and it isn't really even the actual lace bit yet! It looks like I need to do a whipped inner border next but I'm not sure whether that happens before or after I withdraw the central square. I need to go over the next stage of the instructions very carefully again but that will be at some point in the future. August needs a new Move It On Project and I have yet to decide on what I'm doing for that.
At the Stitch Zone we've been learning how to attach shisha mirrors using both shisha stitch and a 'cheat's' way which involves buttonhole stitching round a ring and trapping the shisha underneath it. I also worked over some large sequins and an old coin for variation and added a fly stitch border to one of the 'cheaty' shishas.
The couching element is sari silk thread - one of those sort of things which you buy at the Knitting and Stitching Show and then never quite know what to do with it. It's lovely and thick with a fabulous sheen and a random sprinkling of colours along each length which makes it work perfectly with the sparkle and multicoloured stitching of the shishas.
It's a nice change to work more freely than you have to with any type of drawn thread work, but now I've made a start on my Ruskin lace, I'm much more tempted to keep at it than I was, which surprises me. Watch this space!
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