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Good evening, thanks for inquiring about the Blanket Stitch flower! Let me try and explain the directions a little more thoroughly for you.
The first step is to WEAVE the bars as shown in the first diagram. Begin weaving the first *bar from the inside towards the outside of the square, run your thread under the Kloster blocks, and come up at the second bar and weave it towards the center. Turn the corner and weave the left adjoining bar to the outside**. Repeat * to ** around the square until you reach the inside of bar 8. Begin weaving the inside bar 9 from bottom to top as shown on the diagram.
THEN, begin the blanket stitch over bars 9 and 7, *by taking thread UNDER bar 9, up through center space, then come back over bar 9 and 7, going back down on the upper part of bar 7. Bring thread to the front in the space between bar 7 and bar 9 as shown on the diagram. Take the thread back BEHIND bar 9 then, and back again to the front**, repeating * to ** until the bars about half full of blanket stitches. When bars are full enough (4 to 5 blanket stitches, depending on how tightly you stitch) turn fabric one quarter turn and do the same stitch again over bars 6 and 10, then over bars 5 and 4, etc., until you have stitched bars 3 and 2. At that point, begin the center stitch as shown on the diagram, then finish the blanket stitches over bars 12 and 1. When you reach that point finish the center spider web stitch, then stitch the blanket stitches over bars 1 and 8.
Hi, thanks for your email regarding the Florette stitch!
One thing to remember is that the stitch is done the same way on each loop, so you could have one loop or twenty loops close together...This flower is three loops placed very close together.
The first step is to make the loop with the silk ribbon. I like to come up to the front and go to the back with the silk ribbon in the same hole or just one thread apart. (For the flower make three silk ribbon loops about one thread apart. Then using one strand of DMC white, bring the needle to the front of the fabric in the center of the loop, come straight up through the silk ribbon loop, thread a bead onto your needle if doing a flower with beads, and then back down through the silk ribbon loop at the very same spot you came up in, and then back down through the fabric at the very same place you came up in. As you pull the thread tight, it will pucker and gather the silk ribbon loop into a "rosette" with a bead (or not) in the center of the flower.
Good afternoon, thanks for your email regarding postage. For some reason, your complete email address did not show up and I am unable to send you a private email. Would you mind emailing me directly at Connie@LaceyThread.com and we can talk about options? I am leaving for work right now, and I will look forward to hearing from you this evening! Thanks again!
I just had an email from a stitcher asking about the fabric used for My Heart's Garden so that it would fit in the Sudberry box. It is stitched on 28 count fabric for a perfect fit into the box top.
I'm sorry, Santa41, but I couldn't get your return email address to work! Hope that this omission hasn't inconvenienced you too much, and thanks so much for asking! We love to hear from stitchers!
We have released two new designs, My Child's Heart and Sunglow Memories.
My Child's Heart is an exquisite birth sampler containing hardanger, pulled thread, specialty stitches and ribbon embroidery. This sampler could also be customized for a wedding sampler, or stitched without words for a beautiful band sampler! A Mother-of-Pearl heart bead is also included with each leaflet.
In Sunglow Memories you can display your favorite pictures in a gorgeous memory frame, using unique and creative corner photo holders designed by Lacey Thread Designs. Your photos can be easily exchanged as you desire without having to reframe the stitching each time. Stitched with basic hardanger (NO CUTTING!) and pulled thread stitches, and detailed directions for the corner photo holders are included in leaflet.
