Monday, Oct 1 2007

And more border progress. There was an awful lot of over-ones, but they’re now done.

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Castle Sampler border progress Tuesday, Sep 25 2007

Here’s my border progress. I am very curious and hurrying to work on it to satisfy my curiosity. *g*

 

  

Some things of note. 

All the colors are coming out much darker than on the reference photo. I also noticed on some people’s photos the design  has lighter colors than mine. For example on this one

http://image24.webshots.com/25/7/28/90/36572890uEnJfj_ph.jpg

But my result will rather look like this

http://image07.webshots.com/7/8/24/1/106582401IEpdEQ_ph.jpg

 Quite a difference! I suppose the only reason is the lighter version is coming from the kit and there the colors are different than in the book. I like the way my colors are coming out by now, as the other version looks too yellowish. (that means I am lucky to have this version).  

The over-one areas: I really enjoy working over-one (it’s not my first time but in the past I was doing it with a bit different technique). But I’d say that it does have some negative sides. You put the same amount of work and it takes the same amount of time to do full crosses over-one, but the result is a # of times smaller and less visible (or often almost invisible). Close colors placed together are almost non-distinguishable. The big letters look very good, but the tiny ornaments are IMO not worth to apply all the color changes the chart is calling for. Over-one is most suitable for detailed body parts like faces, hands and occasionally for some decoration ornaments.

 

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Прогрес на рамката.  Излиза че най-вероятно има две версии на този дизайн, като едната е от комплект, а другата е публикувана в книга. Тази, която имам, е по-тъмната, но на повечето снимки е показана по-светлата (жълтеникавата). Аз лично предпочитам по-тъмната.

 Техниката “през едно” която се вижда върху миниатюрните орнаменти и буквите, е подобна на гобленовия бод 1:1, но се шие с кръстче. Тази техника е най-подходяща за шиене на лицето, ръцете и понякога на отделни малки орнаменти, но не винаги си струва да се шие, защото количеството положен труд е същото както при обикновеното голямо кръстче, а това което се вижда е значително по-дребно и понякога едва различимо.

 

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The Sun Friday, Sep 14 2007

has eyes. It’s so expressive that I have a bit creepy and eerie feeling. Almost like looking at an ancient manuscript.

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Knotwork bookmark Monday, Aug 27 2007

Това е серия книгоразделители с келтски “възлови” орнаменти, от Тереза Вентзлер.
http://twdesignworks.com/TWDW/bookmarks1_l.html

Шие се само на лен или evenweave, тъй като има 1/4 бодове. Въпреки че моделите изглеждат сравнително прости, се шие трудно докато се свикне с многото броене и прескачане. Смятам да комбинирам няколко модела в една картина.

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I started one of TW’s Knotwork bookmarks. I was somewhat surprised that the stitching goes not so easily as I thought. There’s a lot of counting because of the many 1/4’s. Still it is going relatively fast. After some pondering I think I might stitch all 6 bookmarks on one piece of fabric, or at least place more than one on it.

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