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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Blue, White and Grey

I rewarded myself for my recent spree of finishes with a new start. It was toss-up between Mirabilia's Cinderella and Deco Spirits and I eventually went with the latter.

I got a ridiculous amount of stitching done this week so you can see a fair bit of Earth here.

Deco Spirits
32 ct White Lugana

There is so much metallics in this! And it has strange cotton/metallic combinations too. It has one symbol that's 2 strands DMC and one Blending Filament. Is there anyone out there who likes stitching with that stuff? There's another that's one strand Kreinik #8 and one strand DMC. The Kreinik simply shreds the DMC to pieces! I've made the executive decision to stitch those with a full cross in #8 and put a half cross on top with one strand DMC. Same for the BF ones (one strand #8 full cross and one strand DMC half cross on top). I hope it works out.

7 comments:

valerie said...

Great start Blu! You got a lot done on the Earth square. :) I detest working with metallics but the effect is worth the frustration.

Giovanna said...

Great new start - it's actually one of the few Mirabilia's I like (and own). Yeah, metallics are a pain...

Pull the other thread said...

Wow you got an amazing amount done on this one.

Catherine said...

Looks great! Someone once told me to pull the clear thread from the metallics/filaments and they will lay nicer. Not sure if that will help you or not.

demeter83 said...

Looking great, you'll soon have another finish

D1-D2 said...

I hate using the blending filament as well. It was the first time I stitch with it when I started Peacock Tapestry. I ended up taking Teresa Wentzler's advice: full cross stitch using DMC thread and then go over the top leg of the stitch with the blending filament. So far it's going well and I don't see much of a difference than if I did a complete stitch with the blending filament.

Angie said...

what a pain.