Water Goddess – the great frogging progress..
The lily pad has to go 
Close up of her skirt
A little bit more of Fairy Queen
The start of the Chrysanthemum and the phoenix
And an over 1 fish on Egyptian Garden.
Photo post :D
September 2, 2010 at 12:49 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Chatelaine, Egyptian Garden, Fairy Queen, Joan Elliot Designs, Passione Ricamo, Phoenix and Chrysanthemum, Water Goddess
What not to do with dyes…
June 8, 2010 at 1:24 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Chatelaine, Cirque des Carreaux, Egyptian Garden, experiments in dyeing, ink circles
I decided that the fabric for PR’s “The Night” had dyed too pale so tonight I decided to fix it – and couldn’t get the lid off one of the dyes… when I did manage to the dye flew everywhere – my hands are dyed, it went into my hair and all over the floor… so I am now running low on one of my greens.
Anyway, as it is cold I am leaving it to cure overnight, and will add the fixative in the morning. If it doesn’t work out how I think it should I will just dye it all navy.
So I gave up on that and did another bit on Cirque des Carreaux:
And because I had said I have started it – the very beginnings of Chatelaine’s Egyptian Garden – on 32ct linen dyed by me
I need to take pictures
June 7, 2010 at 11:44 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: Chatelaine, Cirque des Carreaux, Egyptian Garden, goals, ink circles
I have done another bit of Cirque des Carreaux and have started the centre square of Egyptian Garden.
I think I need to start a rotation.
Goals for June:
Finish Cirque des Carreaux
Finish current border on Misty morning
Water Goddess – head and hair, start the moon
Lily – Wings
That should be enough for this month I think…
Not much in the way of stitching…
June 2, 2010 at 2:12 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Chatelaine, Egyptian Garden, hdf, stash
More setting up for future projects.
I dyed two more pieces of fabric – both I think will work for what I have dyed them for, however one I want to go back and revisit. I was trying to do mottled dark blue with bits of other colours through – violet, green, pink etc – kind of reminiscint of photos from the Hubble Telescope of nebula and such… however only the green showed through the blue so the fabric might have to go back into a dye bath and get some pinks and violets if I can be bothered. It is for Passione Ricamo’s The Night – I have a piece of Aida that came with it but when I double checked the measurements it only has about 2 inches for framing – which doesn’t leave a lot of room… This piece has lots of room for framing.
This is darker in real life
I got my silks for Egyptian Garden, now the only Chatelaine left to finish kitting up is Watergarden. I have done my own conversion to Vikki’s HDF silks by eyeballing the colours on my monitor and choosing ones that looked (on screen anyway) pretty close. I have dyed a piece of Belfast linen to stitch it on – it looks quite bright but I think it will look pretty – it is blue, pale orange and pink – I was aiming for sunset colours.
I went down to Kmart to see if they had any zip files for me to set up a few of my projects in – and they had these lovely bright pink files:
The zipper on the pocket will be ideal for scissors, hilighter pens etc. Inside there was another pocket, and a “Pencil case”
I think between the two floss, needles, beads and metallics will work.
Then I very industriously made up floss tags with the symbol in the fabric and the floss name:
And slipped the pattern into plastic pockets – the pages had to be trimmed slightly as they were US letter size and the pockets are A4. Luckily most US cross stitch patterns come with a decent margin so you can trim without losing the pattern (I did the same thing to my Cirque patterns)
And the complete kit minus fabric as it is still wet:
Then I pulled out my brand new spools and stitched a few samples:
The spools:
