I've been excited ever since Sharon B announced she would host another
Take a Stitch Tuesday. I did plan ahead so I'd be ready wherever I might be come January. I started at my LCS with a DMC variegated perle that appealed to me. I selected it in #10 and #20, the gathered floss and #5 perle in gradations from the variegated colorway, along with some Kreinik braid for sparkle. At home I found 16 ct Aida cloth and dyed it with some yellow, seagreen and turquoise I had on hand. It turned out similar to some cotton I experimented with last year. I decided not to burden my to-go stash with beads, figuring it would be an excuse (as if I needed one) to shop for embellishment goodies.
You'll notice some small skeins of yarn I threw in. These are samples I get monthly from
www.elann.com. I've been
subscribing for several years now and use the yarn for lots of different things including CQ and Scrumbling.
Waiting for internet mobility I started the sampler with the lettering. The words stitch and 2012 worked with a scrap of yarn I'd brought along for another project. I untwisted it into single plies.
For fun I'll be adding some pastel buttons to the big buttonhole.
The upper element is one of my favorite uses of fly stitch. I make exaggerated flies, joining where I can, making odd shaped patches that are fun to fill with tiny stitches or beads; I worked such before using feather stitch.
