Yippeeee! After finally finishing an urgent paid job, I have some time to rest, recuperate from a minor illness, and stitch!! A whole day and night spent exploring lesson one of PLOS. I really enjoyed trying to find some different ways of presenting Guilloche stitch. I tried some of Sharon's suggestions with very pleasing results. This could be a border stitch, I think you'd have to use it sparingly if you worked it as heavily as I did on some of the rows. They feature silk, cotton, stranded and metallic threads, beads and bugles, French knots and running stitch as well as the traditional lacing found on Guilloche stitch. The outline of the postcard sized piece is Portugeuse knotted stem, not sure if I'd work that again along a withdrawn thread, it tended to wobble about a bit. I decided to use the "window" method of hooping up the 26 count oatmeal coloured linen in the end, stitching it by machine to a piece of calico and cutting away the area to be stitched from behind. That way I could use my large table hoop which prevents me stooping over the work and so is easier on my arthritic neck.
Now on to lesson two!!!
5 comments:
Beautiful stitching. Lovely colour combinations!
your sampler is well worth the wait, I love the colours and the different ways that you have made up the different rows of stitch. I am behind with the lessons as well, but have decided not to worry about what sampler goes with which lesson but just do what ever takes my fancy.
Christine, you did a beautiful job with this stitch. It was worth the wait and I love your colors.
I love this piece! Like everyone else is expressing the colors are wonderful and such a nice variety of trials with what this stitch can do.
Love your stitching. I will have to take this class the next time it is offered. Very nice color choices.
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