{"id":2341,"date":"2022-11-20T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2022-11-20T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:12:16","slug":"just-stitchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airynothing.net\/wp\/2022\/11\/20\/just-stitchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Stitchin’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2026 and some unstitching, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a really bad photo because I took it on the kitchen table in mid-late afternoon sun. The shadows are horrible. (Well the shadows are actually great, but they make the photo horrible.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t have any idea where I’m going with this. I picked up the center scrap with the intention of trying Jude’s<\/a> multi line stitching. Rather than split stitch, I’m using stem stitch. For some inexplicable reason (probably just the first pink thread I picked up), I started with rayon thread. I have plenty of respect for anyone who consistently hand embroiders with rayon. I’m a patient woman, but it requires a great deal more patience than I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I switched to cotton. Shine makes color slightly different, but I’m pretty sure I ended up with the same color. . . Except for one frond, which I was just too tired of unsewing to take out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used only one strand, because I intend to line it on both sides with a light green and then a darker pink, and possibly the light pink again. I can’t draw a good line for love nor money, so I used the drag and click method, which creates as many angles as curves. It gives an idea, if not the actual look. The dotted line is fronds I have drawn on the fabric, which I may or may not add.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The center scrap is a knit I used to make some slacks for my husband back in the 70s. It’s approximately 2″ x 2″. It didn’t make using the rayon any easier! Before I started with the cotton thread I made it bigger with the cotton scraps. Because the log cabin has been on my mind (and blogs I read), I put it together that way. Oh, but I loved that fringe on the selvedge , so I kept it, using Jude’s glue stitch to stitch it down.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wow! There are a lot of loose threads and tails in this photo. Knit is a lot less forgiving when held up to the light, too. I see a run and holes where I did some unstitching. What this photo doesn’t show, though, is how that knit sparkles in the sun. Who’d’ve thought?!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might also turn that top strip right side up. I didn’t see the chipmunk until after I’d stitched. He’s kinda cute! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been thinking about personal symbols, trying to figure out what mine might be. Since I’d never thought about it before, I don’t really have any. Certainly none I’ve ever used consciously as such. I decided I’m not going to worry about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then, as I was stitching these curlicues, it dawned on me that I have always doodled tree-like curlicues. Trees, curlicues, spirals and circles are, for the most part, all I have ever doodled. I was never one to doodle cute people or animals. I may have doodled a few cats or owls, or maybe some dogs, on occasion, but 90% of my doodles are curlicues–curlicue trees, spiral roses with curlicue leaves, and curlicue flowers. Oh, yeah! I made some curlicue creatures one autumn in high school study hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t think these are exactly symbols, but they are something I like to see and make and therefore are somewhat representative of me. I honestly don’t know how much I’ll be using them in my stitching, though.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Don’t know what I’ll be doing this week. Hopefully, I’ll get a couple of Christmas projects done. I also have to cook a couple of easy dishes for Thanksgiving dinner. Tomorrow my sister and I head to Costco for Covid boosters and also a shingles shot for me, maybe a flu shot for her (I had mine), and then shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. We had<\/em> decided to eat out, but no place we all like is open or taking reservations. Cooking isn’t a big deal, but no one likes cleanup. There are only nine of us, but still, maybe we’ll use paper plates. I guess that’s up to Debie, since she’s hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026 and some unstitching, too. This is a really bad photo because I took it on the kitchen table in mid-late afternoon sun. The shadows are horrible. (Well the shadows are actually great, but they make the photo horrible.) I don’t have any idea where I’m going with this. I picked up the center scrap with the intention of trying Jude’s multi line stitching. Rather than split stitch, I’m using stem stitch. For some inexplicable reason (probably just the first…<\/p>\n

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