Firstly, the Brantwood House Victorian wallpaper motif I've been stitching since last July is finished! I had a real push on it this week and was delighted to set the last stitch on Thursday.
We also have had some sunshine, which really brought out the effect of the padded satin stitch.
So the finishing touch for the wallpaper motif is to lace it over a piece of firm plastic and mount it into the altered book that I'm using for this particular Holiday Journal. I'm not sad to see it finished, but I will be a bit lost for something to stitch when I'm out and about.
The other finishing touches are courtesy of February's meeting at Scunthorpe Embroidery and Textile Association (SEATA). We had borrowed some folios of embroidery examples of edgings, tassels, insertion stitches, stitched buttons etc. from the Embroiderers' Guild to inspire us and I was so inspired I completely forgot to take any photos of the beautiful work on show.
I started by making a cord with a lucet. I'd never used one before and it took a bit of getting started but once I was underway, I fell into the rhythm of it quite easily. It's very much like a tight version of French knitting, but on two prongs instead of four nails, so there is no hollow middle and it cones out square/diamond in cross section rather than round.
Unfortunately instead of starting with something simple like just wool, I decided to use up some sparkly thread, so the results are not really fit to be seen, but I enjoyed it enough that I'm now mooching at lucets online.
I'm quite intrigued by insertion stitches, but after the morning making a lucet braid I wanted to stitch something more straightforward after lunch, so I folded some oddments of fabric and experimented with some blanket/buttonhole stitch edging variations.
They are tiny as usual - each sample is about 2 inches long - but long enough to see how the pattern works up and to give some ideas for the future...
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