Here’s the second side of the hessian bag I’ve been embroidering- although it was tempting to add another plant in the gap top left I decided to leave it empty and embrace the asymmetry. Great patterns from #TheSteadyThread, I suspect I will be sewing some more of these at some point! #blackworkembroidery #Embroidery #fiberarts

Today’s #FiberArtCamp prompt is #CartoonSaturday - what do you watch or listen to while you’re making?

At the minute, I’m doing #blackworkembroidery while we have music on shuffle in the background (so far this evening I’ve enjoyed Arch Garrison, Tame Impala and some of the Guilty Pleasures album!), but I often have TV/ streaming on (last week The Peripheral, again)

Sewing usually means BBC Radio 4, often punctuated by YouTube How To videos (especially when I have to thread the overlocker!)

For #FiberArtClub #WIPWednesday I’m onto the second side of adding #blackworkembroidery plants to this hessian bag, using a great pattern from #TheSteadyThread. I’m still thinking about the next knitting project, wanting to try out some sewing projects from the Cath Kidston Sew book and wondering whether I will ever make a start on the winter coat I’ve got fabric for in the cupboard.

Hi, people doing #fiberartcamp ! I’m Vicki, I’ve been #knitting and #sewing for a long time, occasionally do a bit of #tapestry #blackworkembroidery #crossstitch or #weaving - looking forward to seeing everyone’s posts on here

Had a tidy of the cupboard the other weekend (too much fabric/ wool!) and found this boring hessian bag. Good excuse to try a bit of #blackworkembroidery using these excellent plant patterns from #TheSteadyThread #embroidery #fiberarts

Welp, with Twitter seemingly for real broken this time, thought I'd reintroduce myself over here. I'm Valerie, I love #boardgames , #languagelearning , #crossstitch and #blackworkembroidery , #dnd , #videogames , and #books . I work in English/Spanish translation and am planning to get back into learning Korean and Italian eventually. Have been way behind the times and just now playing Breath of the Wild 🤣 I have way too many cross stitch pieces in progress.

@shawnbrown @PyConUS I love this! I’m copying in the #Embroidery #blackworkembroidery people too

There. I have caught up on all 13 weeks of my #blackwork stitch-along. I just love it. The geometry soothes my brain. #TheSteadyThreadSAL 2023

#BlackworkEmbroidery #FiberArts

I have had Bath #1, a good soak and a rudimentary hairwash without unbraiding my braid, and now I’m tucked in bed with my #blackwork and Netflix (started mighty rewatch of #BreakingBad while in hospital. Middle of season 3 now)

Home home home home home 🥰

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Progress. Blackwork in orange and a neon mandala. #embroidery #blackworkembroidery #stitchery

Day 7 of #The100DayProject!

Today's #blackwork #embroidery pattern reminds me of arabesque tiles. Islamic geometric art is something I've been increasingly interested in the past few years. I am attracted to the tesselations and the overlapping/interlacing of lines and forms. So pretty! I would like to do a piece heavily influenced by this.

This colour is Dark Delft Blue. I think this is my shade. It doesn't pop or feel intense against the black, but it feels calming.

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Project: The Steady Thread's #100DaysOfTiny.

The pattern: It's free on Clare's website! (It's so pretty! 😍)
https://thesteadythread.com/collections/chart/products/100-days-of-tiny

Floss: I will use Threadworx's Bradley's Balloons only.
https://www.threadworx.com/productDetails.php?prd_id=747

Fabric:
Not entirely sure, so I am taking this opportunity to get a bunch of different fabrics to both add to my swatch collection and to select one for the project. My only criteria is that it is black. 😅

Start: When fabric arrives.

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Day 6 of #The100DayProject!

The patterns in this #blackwork #embroidery project feel really modern. I like it! This reminded me of an oscilloscope. I messed up doing one side, so I had to do some significant undoing and restitching, but no evidence of that mistake appears to show up. 😅

The designer of this project released a freebie pattern, "100 Days of Tiny" featuring 126 little blocks. I'm tempted to start it, on black Aida with just Threadworx Bradley's Balloons. 🤔

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Day 5 of #The100DayProject!

It is no surprise that blue is my favourite colour, but I prefer my blues to be either true blue or blue leaning red: the purple blues. I am not a fan of blue leaning green or the teals. However, this teal against the black? AMAZING! I love how it pops, a vibrant cyberpunk-y Miami glow.

I kept thinking of The Matrix as I stitched this #blackwork #embroidery. The pattern feels very modern, computational. I would like to do more of this.

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Day 4 of #The100DayProject!

I am getting back into the daily rhythm of this #blackwork #embroidery project. Because I have a lot of new relationship energy with this pattern, I need to resist working on it constantly: I have to remind myself this is a walking marathon project.

I love the medium cornflower blue against the black Aida. It feels low-vibe INTENSE. The pattern is fun, but a diagonal stitching path may have been more efficient over the vertical one I used.

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Making great progress on my Deco Cornflowers #blackwork project. It’ll probably be finished today or tomorrow. I need to figure out some USEFUL blackwork ideas because there is only so much real estate on my walls!

Bookmarks, hankies… what else can be decorated with elegant geometric embroidery??

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Day 3 of #The100DayProject!

I *love* how this colour pops against the black background. I've not done a pattern like this in blackwork and I found it rhythmic and satisfying (and quick!) to stitch.

When I first started #blackwork #embroidery, using black floss against white Aida, I waxed the floss to get it smooth. I stopped regularly using sometime last year, as I didn't think it was needed. I noticed floss fuzziness against the black, so I have returned to waxing.

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I spent about 15 minutes removing the unfinished diamond fragments on my #The100DayProject #blackwork #embroidery before tackling Day 2's diamond.

I'm thinking about ditching the pattern entirely of that center diamond and stitching "2023" or "T100DP"inside it instead. 🤔

Day 2 went smoothly and quickly. It was easy to craft a smooth path through this pattern. I'm stitching the patterns first, then finishing it with the outline. I like the results so far!

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I went back to swatching the #blackwork #embroidery pattern on a single strand, taking extra care. It turns out that the single strand actually looks fine, it's the pattern I don't really like. I don't like how the pattern's lines and angles converge.

This was not an auspicious start to #The100DayProject. 🥺

A mental reset was in order. I picked an adjacent diamond and decided to work it in a single strand.

Beautiful! Day 1 in the books!
Day 1.5 will be frogging. 😅

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Last night's adventures in #blackwork #embroidery were frustrating.

I've been stitching on 32ct linen over two recently, so I figured a 16/18ct Aida would make #The100DayProject piece work faster and easier: the stiffness of the fabric would require less care. I hooped my fabric and started with a single strand, but I didn't like the appearance of the stitches: they got lost in the black Aida. So, I frogged it and switched to double strand and I *still* disliked it. WTF?

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