stitching: blackwork & cross-stitch square

[kate_nepveu]

Finished a stitching project tonight. After I finished catching up on the daily temperature chart, I found myself in the mood for blackwork, because all the backstitch I had just done was very annoying (that black floss (DMC 310) behaves like very cheap dental floss). I had a bunch of patterns from Seba Designs, so I pulled up the PDFs and sorted through my floss stash and away I went.

The usual attempt to embed a preview from Google Photos (edit 2: if the embed doesn't work, try opening the link in an incognito tab, my guess is that it's some obscure cookie conflict):

I did this over two on 28-count off-white evenweave; stitching over-two made it take longer, but I didn't have any Aida in off-white. Even still, blackwork turns out to be addictively fast when you're not trying to make the back look as identical as possible to the front—this is a little over 5 inches square, I started it on March 27, and I mostly confined my stitching to the weekends. Unfortunately all of the floss I used is so old that it's no longer available; it was the Gentle Art sampler threads in Gold Leaf, Weathered Barn, and Cinders. I originally picked the colors revolving around Cinders, the black-with-red, but I ended up not liking that as much because I didn't care for the way it veered sharply but briefly into the red. On the other hand, the Gold Leaf was great, I loved the way it was so rich in both its light and dark shades.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. I'm planning at least one more blackwork stash experiment, so I figure when I run out of experiments, I'll look over the results and then decide what to keep and what to give away.

If you like the pattern, by the way, the designer has put up all her stuff in the files of a closed Facebook group, because she's not selling them any more; this one was in "SEBABlackworkCollection.pdf."

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[cynthia1960]

That is lovely. Makes me want to get my embroidery stuff out of storage after the quarantine lifts.

[kate_nepveu]

if you do, I hope you enjoy!