I have finally finished my little folk art bird stitching project. I started it in September and it has travelled around with me on several outings and I have worked on it at home as well. I downloaded the PDF from Chloe Redfern. I chose to stitch it with the colours she recommended and love how it turned out though I found it quite busy because I reduced the pattern in size to suit my project. Next, time I will reduce the amount of details I transfer to my fabric and will consider doing it in variegated floss which will mean much less starting and ending which would be less distracting as a slow stitching project. You can see that the transferred lines have all disappeared after having washed it by hand with which was what I was expecting. I used the gray marker from the small Ultra Clean Crayola marker set I bought in early September. I am very happy to have a washable marker for my stitching projects!! The price cannot be beat and you can use the marker closest to the colour of your stitching if you like. I will now have to find the other squares I cut out at the beginning of this project and the markers which have been misplaced before I can move on with a few more of these cute little birds!!
I am linking to Kathy's Quilts blog for Slow Sunday Stitching. Check out the other
interesting projects that this creative group is working on.
Therese
Your stitching is lovely, thanks for the link to the pattern.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous stitching!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors of this little bird. Upon reading your post, I realized that I have a variegated floss in exactly those colors. You probably could have used it.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely! That was a lot of work!
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