Our Friends' HAED SAL: I'm Baaaack

Thursday, July 1, 2010

I'm Baaaack

Yes I have been remiss in stitching on my HAEDs. I had to take a break and do some little things. I feel like I have accomplished something and now the BAPs call to me again. June was suppose to be the Fantasies of the Seas month in my rotation, so I pulled it out last weekend and put in about 500 stitches. Here it is.

Now that it's July, I will be pulling out The Astronomer and hopefully put some stitches in that during the three day weekend.

5 comments:

Sabine S. said...: I am so smitten with the blues and greens in this piece. I would love to have this hanging in my livingroom! Glad you're back, but I wish you were stitching on this one for July.Good job sticking to your rotation!
Sabine; July 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Marie said...: Hello Jan !
A few days ago, I was thinking about your Fantaisies of the Sea, and now you're here again !
Your work looks beautiful as always, and the colors are so pretty !
I'm glad to see you back, and I'm loking forward to see your Astronomer again too !

Could you just tell me what "BAPs" means ?; July 1, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Jan said...: Marie,
BAPs means Big A** Projects. If you can't guess what the A word is, it's the slang word for derriere.; July 2, 2010 at 4:08 AM
http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...: I love those colors, so beautiful!; July 4, 2010 at 6:09 AM
Sjoukje said...: Love the colours!; July 11, 2010 at 2:22 PM

Tutorials

How to Carry Threads
This is really easy...it takes a while to get used to though....and your back will look terrible...this you will have to live with...One thing...You will be working your 10 x 10 grids in colums...it makes it easier...
1. Start with a 10 x 10 grid..
2. Find your first symbol...and stitch all of that symbol in your 10 x 10 grid....When finished...
3. Find the same symbol on the 10 x 10 grid below it...take your needle and bring your thread up like you are going to make the first 1/2 of the X ...but don't do it...just unthread your needle and lay the thread down..
4. Go back to the first grid you were working on...and stitch the next symbol the same way....when finished bring your thread down....
5. continue each symbol until your first 10 x 10 grid is finished....
6. start the next 10 x 10 grid ....you should have thread there already for you to pick up and stitch...
Posted by Vickie 3/7/2009

Tent Stitching (Wikipedia)
Tent stitch variants
There are three types of tent stitch, all producing the same appearance on the front of the canvas but each worked in a slightly different way and having particular characteristics, uses, benefits and drawbacks. These variants of tent stitch are known as basketweave, continental and half cross tent stitches:
Basketweave tent stitch - The basketweave form of tent stitch is worked in diagonal rows up and down the canvas. The yarn on the back of the canvas has a typical basketweave appearance, with alternating horizontal and vertical stitches. Basketweave is the best stitch to use for covering large areas of canvas as it does not distort the canvas as the other two forms of tent stitch do.
Continental tent stitch - Continental stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitches appear diagonally across two threads. This method uses more yarn than half cross stitch tent stitch but is more hardwearing.
Half cross tent stitch - Half cross stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitch appears vertical or horizontal, not diagonal, and crosses only one thread. This method uses less yarn than other stitches but is not very durable as coverage on the back of the canvas is a little thin.