Needlepoint frames-2 Green and red

This second frame I deviated from satin stitch and tried some leaf stitch and Algerian eye stitch.
There were lots of squares in this quilt pattern,and I did not want repeat the same satin stitch in different colours,
For the corner red , when it looked too big for satin stitch in red colour, I changed it into Algerian eye stitch.
The four diamond shapes in medium green was surrounded by satin stitches in different directions, this immediately called for some other stitch, and the chosen one was leaf stitch. Though it was done in one colour, the effect is totally different.
The colours are three shades of green , brownish green, red and cream.

needlepoint frame-2 green&red

Since there were only two frames, I could try only two designs.
It was an interesting venture with lots of possibility for creativity, though I did not use much here!

 

Needlepoint frames-1 pink & violet

The basic pattern is from quilt block design book.
The first colour chosen was pink, from there violet, yellow and white. I tried alternating the dark and light shades violet just to see the effect. Another trial on squares on all the four sides- alternating medium and light pink shades.

needlepoint frame-1 pink

 

Needle point picture frames

I had done a few long stitch kits by anchor. While browsing the net I found some pictures done in various needlepoint stitches.
These websites are full of them-

ANG

Needlepoint canvas

Rainbow gallery

I too wanted to try some, but starting with a new venture chose satin stitch as the base.
. I bought this book-1000 great quilt blocks, leading me to chose from the block designs .
the square frames were from IKEA, after measuring the size of the square, I chose two block designs. Then the canvas was marked with pencil.
These frames were meant to decorate my husband’s office room, later when he changed the office they came home. The pictures on my next posts.till then enjoy browsing these wonderful links.

 

Roses in cross stitch-1 yellow roses

This frame is with two medium size roses with bud. The roses are yellow.
Actually this pattern was used for the second time, when I initially bought the book, this pattern fascinated me so much that I did it on a tunic with waste canvas. But I can’t say it made me happy of the result. Why did I make medium blue roses? Iam  still wondering!
This pattern is done in aida cloth.
When the piece was inserted to the frame, I added a yellow paper for the outline too.
Not a bright idea definitely!

rose frame-1 yellow

Three more roses !

 

Roses in cross stitch

I made these roses in 2004, when we first came to this house.
The idea started with finding four wooden frames. I liked them so much, that wanted to do some flowers as a set.
I had a few cross stitch designs books from India. These were very small books which had cross stitch designs taken from other big cross stitch pattern books. the book size -10’ / 8’. The patterns were quite small too.
After going through these books, I had a desire of doing some roses. From all the rose patterns I chose four.
The choice was for two big roses with buds for two frames, and two medium roses for the other two.
Then I decided to do the patterns in four different colour schemes. The interesting part was choosing the dark to light shades of the same colour, to synchronise with the actual patterns. The details of the frames from the next post

 

Kingfisher in long stitch

I had bought this long stitch kit from Anchor, last year.this was a medium size picture, with a single kingfisher,
Once in a while I enjoy working on these kits- saves time,effort on designing, calculating.Only hassle is , after some the right index finger starts aching[all the pushing into the tight canvas].
This was my journey.
I started with the dark colours from the centre of the picture.This area was done with cotton skeins[came along with the kit] in 6 strands

kingfisher-1

The background in 4 strands.And the immediate foreground [yellow] in 6 strands.

kingfisher-2

Stitched the clouds in white, working the brown[8 strands] on the frame pattern.

kingfisher-3

 

Completed picture

kingfisher-4

Framed picture

kingfisher picture

 Didn’t know how to avoid the flash on the picture! LOL!

 

Monograms in cross stitch

The monograms seen here, I did for my brother-in-law and his wife, when we visited them.
Pattern- I don’t remember where I took the pattern from, but I incorporated their initials on the basic pattern.
Frame- I got this from a local shop, with three apertures, two for their initials and one for their photo. Actually, the idea came after buying the frame.
The frame-

monograms-B& K

I have been thinking of doing one for us, but that hasn’t started yet.

 

Celtic Frame-2

Early last year, I had done a celtic design . This pattern was from http://www.inkcircles.com/html/Goodies.html. [thanks]They gave  a full year of celtic patterns. I chose two patterns from them for frames. The second one  I did in dec2009-

printed pattern-2

I changed the colours. While working-

work in progress-2

This design was of ideal size for the frame, so I used the whole design.I think  it was 16inch aida cloth. the finished piece-

celtic pattern -2

I couln’t resist adding my initials on the four corners.The two frames together look like this-

celtic frame set

Working on the second frame was easier. I liked using fall colours on these pieces.

 

Car sampler

My nephew is very fond of  cars. He wanted me to embroider a car motif for him.Which he said he’ll stick to his shirt.

It made me think various methods of embroidering car motifs,Then hit upon the idea of doing a car sampler. His name is Deepak,I chose different cars patterns for each letter-

D-red car

 The monogram -chosen from antique pattern library E-book .

For the cars,I searched for the images of trendy cars, with the help of cross stitch software, made the patterns.

E green car

I used metalic silver for the metal plate on the tyre.I don’t know anything about  the parts of the car!

E golden brown car

After completing half the letters, I felt the letters were too tall for the car motifs, but felt too lazy to change.

P sports car

My nephews liked this car the best.

This is very small car.I finished this sampler , but did not take photos after this. The picture was framed with hooks for keyrings. I ‘ll remember to take  photos, when I visit my nephew, It is hanging in his room in Madras.

 

Stitch Explorer- March Assissi Embroidery-completed

I enjoyed doing this month’s stitch explorer-Assissi embroidery.

But ,Iam not fully satisfied because, I don’t feel I have explored this embroidery.I did not try new and bigger ways. Iam still new to these challenges,and just feeling my way now around .

I did not explore trellis stitch at all -Iam yet to learn.Somehow I keep postponing it.

My assissi picture frames all together-

I eagerly waiting  for the next challenge,and hoping I can explore and finish it on time.