Stitchy Witchy

Is a challenge run by the folks at Embroidery.com as a 13 day challenge. From 19 Oct – 31 Oct 2019 the requirement is to stitch at least an hour a day. For those on Facebook – post starting and ending pictures every day. For the rest of us – email to Donnett. I figure I will post them here, rather than the main portion of the blog since this will be an anniversary present for Dani and Alex. Leaves me till 14 Nov to get it complete.

14 Count Aida in parchment. The thread is DMC 939 (rather than black. I have an abundance of both in any case) stitching will be four strands.

: My starting position

: about an hours worth of stitching

19 Oct

: start – 2 Horus yesterday

: finishing – full hour this morning

and, after looking at the pattern for a while, I decided to switch to C823 for the next set of words just to add a bit of sparkle. Since this particular floss is a bit fluffy, three strands are providing good coverage.

20 Oct

after an hour (or so)

I am actually using a timer to make sure that I am stitching at least an hour (for the challenge) and then going on as I have time. Since this takes some, but not an intense amount of concentration (ok, I have had to take out three stitches twice) I am also listening to short stories (Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Paladin series

: end of 20 Oct 2019

: making progress

21 Oct

1 hour. 21 Oct 2019

and

22 Oct

: My one hour 22 Oct 2019

: End of 22 Oct 2019

: bit of shiny detail

23 Oct

: starting

: ending

24 Oct

I should mention as well that I am also using some of the light effects threads. DMC E series. that includes the castle (I will never ever try four strands of metallic again by that method), the Star Wars shield (see previous comment). The Galaxies comment was stitched in C (?). From there – I went with one strand each of C & E – doubled with the needle in the middle and knotted at the end. Almost no fraying. Stitching carefully – the Dalek (E317) , and the Enterprise (E415&C318) were a breeze compared to the previous areas. Of note – from a meter a way – you can’t see much of a difference in the two methods. And one uses a lot less metallic.