Posted in Blackwork, Embroidery, tagged bee, Blackwork, border, counted, design, Embroidery, evenweave, needlework, sampler, tech, work-in-progress on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Previous posts on the project are here and here.
I’m almost half-finished:
The last band pictured is the seventh of thirteen planned and then there’s the rest of the border sooooo almost halfway there.
PCStitch has been a big help. I downloaded the trial Pro version and after tinkering around with it I can do some basic stuff. [...]
Posted in Blackwork, Embroidery, tagged Blackwork, counted, crosshatch, Embroidery, gradient, needlework, perspective, sampler, shaded, shading, tree on September 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After finishing the two fill-in samplers from Beginner’s Guide to Blackwork I decided to press onward in my self-education.
Here are my attempts:
This was my first attempt at manipulating blackwork patterns. I was so ridiculously proud of myself. Here’s a detail of the top portion of the sampler.
Each column contains a different interpretation of the [...]
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