Month: June 2016

Ladybug, Narcissus and Lily

I worked this using one strand of Caron Wildflowers color 219 (Cardinal) and one strand of a dark gray-black DMC stranded floss.I noticed who ever designed this printed panel incorrectly wrote ladybird instead of ladybug. I didn’t bother to try… Read more

Swirling Pin Wheels

The Swirling Pin Wheels design is a counted Hardanger and Rhodes stitch needlework embroidery available in printed and Kindle formats. Over the past winter children from our town’s day care center stuck red and blue pin wheels along the edge… Read more

Red hot poker, Arum and Natal lilies

Design called for the stems to be worked in wrapped wire, instead I did 13-20 wrapped bullions using straw needle. Waxing of needle and light waxing of 6-ply (un-separated) stranded floss makes it easier to pull through long bullions.

Two … Read more

Floral panel, Wild Sorghum, snail and Lion Mum Daisy

Wild Sorghum, snail and Lion Mane Daisy

I decided to give the daisy more of a Lion Mane look than a Shasta Daisy. Silk ribbon used: petals are Silk River color 268 which has speckles of rusty-red throughout the yellow … Read more