kate_nepveu: sleeping cat carved in brown wood (Default)
Kate ([personal profile] kate_nepveu) wrote2015-04-24 11:38 pm
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another bookmark

This one's up for auction at Con or Bust (I'm offering a custom-made one, too).

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red knotwork front full

The weird waviness is it being unduly flattened by the scanner, because I tried for way too long to get accurate colors with a camera and GIMP and could not.

Pattern by Teresa Wentzler (and a giant pain, it varies the height of the rows it puts in and so I had to take a ruler and pencil in lines so that I could have a proper 1 square = 1 stitch chart). Stitched over two on Antique White MCG evenweave; main stitching in silk, Caron Waterlillies, Cherry 101; satin stitch and Algerian eyelets in DMC pearl cotton size 12, Ecru (best way to do satin stitches EVER); backstitch in DMC 801 (done over one on the diagonals); shiny bits in Krenik #4 Braid Beige (013).

The colors don't quite glow the way I wanted when I saw the silk in the store, but I'm pretty happy with it all the same.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2015-04-25 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
That's a gorgeous piece, Kate. :)

I have only once stitched a Wentzler. Unholy pain but the results were so worth it!
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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2015-04-25 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's lovely! The variegation intervals work nicely with the pattern.