Our Friends' HAED SAL: Dragon Rider for Kim

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Dragon Rider for Kim

Once again, thank you to Susan for being kind enough to put up with me as her buddy (and if you saw the rambling emails she got off me you'd know how kind she was being).

Here's my latest update on Dragon Rider by Randal Spangler, which I'm absolutely loving, possibly because I'm all excited about having finished my first page of it. It doesn't really look like much at the moment because, as I think I've said before, I always do the boring bits first, so I'm currently doing a lot of background, although if you squint there is a little bit of dragon wing in the top right of this page so woo, dragon!

I worked out that it' taken me about 40 hours to do teh first page, so I'm trying not to think about how long it's going to take me to finish this, but it'll look incredible when it's done!

Absolutely in love with this piece at the moment, so it's going to be a focus piece for a while, although that may change in a few weeks/months time!

Really loving everyone's updates by the way, sorry for not commenting more, my computer and I aren't on the best of terms at the moment

Kim x (www.kim-demeter83.blogspot.com)

Dragon Rider by Randal Spangler on 25 count evenweave, 1 over 1 full crosses!

4 comments:

mdgtjulie said...: It looks great Kim. Keep up the good work!!!; June 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM
http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...: It's looks fantastic ,i love this design to !; June 4, 2011 at 2:39 PM
Magally said...: It looks fantastic !! Congrats on this first page done !!; June 5, 2011 at 12:15 AM
grannie said...: Congrats on your page finish - and it looks fabulous!; June 10, 2011 at 5:21 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.