Our Friends' HAED SAL: Back home!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Back home!

As you can tell, we are back home again! We enjoyed a wonderful holiday in France (Marie, I winked at the Eiffel Tower for you!) I have pictures of our holidays on my blog (Flickr) and among them beautiful pictures of Tapestries. Just read my blog, if you wish.
Thursdays I joined in the SAL, so I can show progress on both HAEDS. And, especially for Marie, as she is the only French girl on the blog (if I'm right) I had a picture taken of DD, me and La Tour Eiffel. I even stitched a little one in Vibrant Vista.

And to compensate for all the Americans on this blog, I show you the French Liberty Statue :), located in Paris, in a parc. DH was determined to find it, but when we asked a local from Paris about it, he told us there was not, certainly not, a Liberty Statue in the parc. The only one was in the Seine (there really is!) but no sir, not in the parc! We walked on, turned the corner and there she was!!

On to my stitching, Vibrant Vista (with a small tower in it, that reminds me of the Eiffel Tower)

and Call of the Raven.

I have been looking through all your updates and wow, your progress is great! Right now I don't have the time to comment on all the updates, so here's a big hurray to you all!

6 comments:

Marie said...: Oh Joke, Joke, Joke...!!!

Welcome home !
You can not imagine how glad I am...
Your pictures and your words found a place directly in my heart...
Many many times, I was thinking of you during your holiday in France. And every time I saw a car from Netherlands, I said "It's Joke, it's Joke !"...!!
All my thoughts were with you, and it's a very good news that you enjoyed your trip, because France was lucky to meet a person like you.

Congratulations for your stitching work ! You even found the time for stitching !! And the result, as always, looks so wonderful.

Thank you for sharing this all Joke, you're so precious...

I wish you a great week !!; August 10, 2009 at 11:24 PM
kerbear said...: Welcome home! It looks like you had a fabulous vacation and your stitching looks great as always! :); August 11, 2009 at 6:20 AM
Cindy F. said...: Oh Joke!! Beautiful pics!! and that's the first time I've seen the Liberty Lady's pic in France!! So glad you found and shared her with us!!

Amazing progress on both wips! Honestly....you may have a finish soon;); August 11, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Louanne said...: Weclome back. Looks like you had a wonderful time, and you stitched!!! Kudos!; August 12, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Joke, welcome home! Your WIPs are coming along quite nicely.; August 12, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Carolyn NC said...: Great trip and progress on your stitching!; August 13, 2009 at 7:11 AM

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.