Friday Finish - Rapunzel

I don’t have plans to frame or do anything else with it for now, so I’m considering it finished. The size is about 18.5 inches by 8 inches.

Work In Progress Wednesday

Japanese Pattern 28

Rapunzel (Marion Scoular)

Work in Progress Thursday

 Beady fob progress - all that’s left is putting the fobs together.

Japanese Pattern 27

Rapunzel progress

Work in Progress Thursday

Beady Fob Progress

 Japanese Pattern 26

Drawn Thread progress

Rapunzel progress

Work in Progress Wednesday

Four Seasons Kogin progress - I finished the winter section and chose this new Japanese shirt fabric for the backing.  The finish will be coming soon.

Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I are both stitching this kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) Check out her progress!

Japanese Patterns - 22

Rapunzel progress 

I am using this book, Why Call It Blackwork?, by Marion Scoular, for the Rapunzel filling patterns.

Work in Progress Wednesday

Four Seasons Kogin progress - I started the winter section and made good progress on it.

Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I are both stitching this kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) Check out her progress!

Rapunzel progress 

I have always been drawn to counted thread techniques. I like the orderly look of these stitching techniques.  That’s not to say I don’t enjoy other types of embroidery though!

Japanese Pattern 21

This project has been neglected, but I want to work on it again.

Work In Progress Wednesday

Four Seasons Kogin Progress - I finished the Autumn section this week.

Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I are both stitching this kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) Check out her progress!

Rapunzel blackwork progress - I am enjoying this one, too.  I don’t know why this was put away for so long.

Work In Progess Wednesday

Four Seasons Kogin Progress - continuing with summer.

Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I are both stitching this kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) Check out her progress!

Rapunzel Blackwork Progress (Marion Scoular) 

I’ve worked on this one a lot this week, after not working on it at all in 13 years!

Summertime Mt. Fuji Progress - pine needles

Work in Progress Wednesday

Rapunzel blackwork - this is an old Marion Scoular design that has been packed away for a very long time. I pulled it out to check the thread and decided to work on it a bit.

Kogin Four Seasons progress - I worked more on the summer section.

Toki, who blogs at 私がめがねをかけるとき, and I are both stitching this kogin piece. (She blogs in Japanese, but there is a translation button on the top left under the title, if you don’t read Japanese.) Check out her progress!

Last week, Lyn commented that she thought the 1 chi thread might be like floche. I don't stitch with floche often enough to know, but I did have a project using floche, so I pulled it out to compare. The floche is a thinner smoother thread.  The 1 chi is thicker and rather rough.

Summertime Mt. Fuji progress 

This project is very fun for me. Mt. Fuji's 25 connected/related sites were recognized in 2013 by UNESCO as a cultural World Heritage site. I am depicting the mountain and a few of the other sites in this piece.

Sengen Taisha Shrine, Fujinomia

Miho no Matsubara

Shiraito Falls

And of course the summertime mountain, without snow, just clouds. (View from my apartment yesterday.)

The People's Choice SAL - Most Popular Designer

Jo at Serendipidous Stitching is hosting a Stitch A Long the first Saturday of the month, with the topics chosen by her readers.  This month's topic is "Most Popular Designer". 

The word Most means just one. I'm not really a super fan of any one designer, but I have stitched more than one design from several designers. Maybe these are the most popular designers with me.  So here goes --  

Tanja Berlin - I've stitched three of her blackwork designs. I took the pheasants class with her at an EGA National Seminar and stitched the other two on my own.

Dorothy Lesher - I've stitched three of her dragons. I think I took the Sundragon class with her at an EGA National Seminar, and the Dragonmaster at Calloway School of Needlearts.  The Moondragon was on my own.

Lynn Payette - both of these were classes at guild seminars.

Deanna Powell - both the beaded bag and the beaded shawl were classes at EGA National Seminars.

Denise Harrington Pratt - The box and the little toolies were a class at a regional EGA seminar, the small box kit and the many fobs were done on my own. I have no idea how many fobs I have made, but these are a few I have posted about on my blog.

Marion Scoular - the bee hardanger/blackwork piece was a class. The others were done on my own.