Another Two-For-One

Exactly like last month TUSAL and Smalls meet again.

Most of the orts are from Ohm, but the pink and white are from this month's biscornu stitched for
And assembled:
This is half a pattern I printed out and can't remember where I got it from and half my own additions. I was halfway through the stitching when I realized that it wasn't symmetrical. The hearts mirror each other but the triangles do not. I thought about frogging and restitching but didn't feel like it. And I didn't want to keep going since I knew it was wrong (even if you can't tell at first glance). So I just threw on a bunch of buttons and called it a day. Possibly the laziest biscornu I've ever made. This can be my Biscornu of Shame (everyone has one of these right?)

Title	Hearts & Buttons Biscornu
Designer	Modified from an unknown pattern by me
Start date	May 26, 2014
Finish date	May 28, 2014
Total time	6.75 hours
Fabric	25 ct black lugana
Floss	Dinky Dyes Rosella

Devil In The Details

I've had a few people ask if I have any plans to post/sell the pattern for Stitch Sampler I and I am so flattered! I will most definitely post it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to differentiate the different stitches (since they all just look like crosses and straight lines) and about whether I need to include stitch diagrams (probably) and how detailed those should be.

Give me a little bit more time to poke at it and then I'll have it up. Feel free to nudge me if I don't have an update by the end of the month.

ETA: Apparently I've exceeded Photobucket's bandwidth allowance for the month (it rolls over on the 11th). It's just a picture of Stitch Sampler I, so you're not missing anything. I wonder if I should look into other free photo storage websites...

Playing Around With Stitches

I woke up one day and wanted to stitch specialty stitches. I wasn't sure how long the yen would last and I didn't want something massive in case I lost interest.

So I designed a sampler. It was exhausting. Trying to make it interesting and getting the spacing right was frustrating. And it was just a mathematical/geometic design; nothing fancy here. I have no idea how designers do this!
I have creatively named this Stitch Sampler I and used green and white for contrast.
I made some changes while actually stitching. What looks massive on a chart actually comes out incredibly tiny on fabric, so something that looks like it's taking up a lot of space turns out not to do so. If it looks like you have too many of the same stitches it's probably still not enough.
I threw in as many specialty stitches as I could. Some I knew very well and some new. There's a lot of Rhodes variations in there.
It turns out I'm very bad at visualizing in 3D, so I have "high" stitches and "flat" stitches scattered with no rhyme or reason.
All in all, designing my own chart was an interesting experience.

Title	Stitch Sampler I
Designer	Therapy by Thread
Start date	April 16, 2014
Finish date	April 25, 2014
Total time	10 hours
Fabric	28 ct Prairie Green
Floss	DMC 3345, B5200