Our Friends' HAED SAL: Aurora's Garden and The Astronomer

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Aurora's Garden and The Astronomer

Another week, a few more stitches in! I divided my week between these two. Worked well for me, but you may need a magnifying glass to find the new stitches! Slow stitching divided by two HAEDs equals very slow progress!

Happy stitching to everyone this week!

Sabine

4 comments:

Valérie(french) said...: I love the Astronomer.I am impatient to see it to see it growing little by little; October 11, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Jan said...: I can see the new stitches! LOL Aurora is coming along nicely and so is the Astonomer. It's amazing how much confetti is in with all that black. It's nice that you have a light piece and a dark piece going at the same time.; October 11, 2009 at 6:22 AM
Beck said...: Both of them are just gorgeous! Congrats on keeping your sanity during two projects - and it's nice to see someone else using Qsnaps - I thought I was the only one!; October 12, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Cindy F. said...: Are you stitching with both hands?
Good job girl!! I can see a lot of progress on both!!; October 14, 2009 at 10:37 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.