tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39220563409000637322024-03-12T19:27:46.771-07:00The Crazy Thread LadyMerlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-56138734587309695842019-08-13T07:28:00.001-07:002019-08-13T07:28:59.951-07:00Sensu - Phase 2-3 Class in April 2019<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been very busy lately (as usual). A lot of thing happened recently, but one ofthe most important : I had my first class for the phase 2-3 with Marian Preshing, a certified JEC teacher from Edmonton (Canada). A second calss in planned for Novembrer, because the Sensu is covering 2 phases. There a lot of technical elements, and a single 4-day class is not enough to see everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before class, we had homework to do : Complete the foudations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the last picture I took, but the orange coud on the left was completed with temporary holding when i came to class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is the resul</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t of four days of work, 58 hours from the beginning :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to say, i was very satisfied with the teaching of Marian. She has a lot of energy and can handle multilevel class (We were 3 people doing Phase-2-3 and 3 people on Phase 4). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got some homework to do before and i hope i will be able to do them with work and school at the same time ! I was asked to do the pine under the purple foundation on the right, and finish the elements that were started in class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next things we will see are cords, stitching flowers on top of the orange foundation, gold couching and staggered diagonals. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look forward my next class in November!!</span></div>
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Once a foundation is done, it needs to be secured so it won't snag. You don't want to ruin hours of work !<br />
On the shippo foundation a holding lattice is stitched on the top of the cloud. It is the same technique i used in my phase 1 for the valerian flowers (which i didn't post about previously on this blog).</div>
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Usually, a holding lattice is used on a flat silk foundation as holding but also decoration. The lines are 5mm apart, 45° angle from the foundation, and the lines are 90° from each other, so its forms a square. </div>
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When superimposed with shippo, the holding lattice isn't only for esthetic purpose but also a guideline for the shippos. Each line will have a small piece of paper in ellipse form stitched on the top. </div>
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First, i need to twist a 2->1 thread in the same colour. This small thread is as thin as a couching thread. Then, my lines need to be 1,4 cm distance, so i used my 7mm grid. </div>
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This picture is how i make sure i will get nice 45<span style="text-align: center;">° lines. Now do you see what is genius here ? How the 7mm grid goes exactly in the middle of the squares on my triangle? Remember Pytagoras theroem ? </span>A<sup>2</sup>
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This is exactly what we have here ! C = 0,7 mm, it's the size of the hypotenuse, the longest line between two corners of a square when the side of the squares are 0,5 cm.<br />
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This little 7mm grid helped me a lot along with the triangle ! </div>
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Once the cloud is covered with perpendicular lines, the next step is to tie them with couching thread. Usually, the ties are done at the intersection. But for shippo foundation holding lattice, the ties need to be done between the intersections, twice. Since the lines will be covered with the shippo almost not touching where the intersection are, tying it there would be visible. </div>
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Shippo foundation is now completed ! It took around 12 hours to do. I am very satisfied with my work. The worst part was clearly twisting the threads ! Holding lattice was fairly easy to do because i already had experience with yellow valerian flowers on phase 1. The most important thing is to make sure your lines are always 90° and evenly spaced. One on the line is 1 mm off but i will try to correct it when placing the shippo.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">For the next part, i am working on the red cloud on the bottom left. I chose to work on this one because the purple is in flat slik, and since i'm going to travel with my frame next week for a monthly meeting with my group, i'm afraid i may ruin the foundation before it is secured with temporary holding. A snag on flat silk appears more than on twisted thread. </span><br />
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Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-49260286992188413502019-02-25T06:23:00.000-08:002019-02-25T06:23:11.541-08:00WIPocalypse February 2019Good morning:)<br />
Welcome to the (always late) WIPocalypse post of <strike>January</strike> February 2019!<br />
To participate, here is the <a href="http://measi.net/measiblog/wipocalypse_main/2019-wipocalypse-info-page/" target="_blank">Info Page</a> :)<br />
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Since i missed the January deadline, i'm gonna put the two month together !<br />
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This was 2 very big months for me. I attended a University conference in Miami in the beginning of January (One week of vacation in the sun !! ), and was chosen to be lecturer (assistant professor) for an undergrad class in quantitative analysis. Lots of hours of preparation every week, but i am delighted to have this teaching opportunity, since it was my favorite class when i was an undergrad student. Also, i have to take more hours on my part time job to accommodate a colleague, while being in a lot of committees at University !! I feel very tired but i would be bored if i wasn't that much implicated in my community.<br />
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Even if I didn’t have a lot of time to stitch, I managed to find some ! I am very happy to report progress on my wips!! Canadian weather helped a lot, with the coldest winter storm in January in Montreal since 1920. We were freezing like crazy !! Also, we received another 40cm of snow in mid-february. Nothing better than stay home and stitch all day long! The sad part of this stormy winter is that my Japanese Embroidery group meeting for February was canceled. Good news : we will have 2 meetings in March ( and i hope no snow storm this time !)<br />
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Two big news this months :<br />
1. A friend gifted me the long lost Charlotte pattern. I almost cried I was so happy ! I think it was lost in my last moving because i never found it in my new apartment. I will be able to continue my favorite Mirabilia !! But now that i have a new pattern, i predict that i will find the old one in two months. Just because (you know.. ) I did some work on this piece but forgot to take pictures.<br />
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2. I ordered a OTTlamp and just got its this morning ! (Thanks to Dima and her sister for bringing it to me !) I have very bad lighting in my apartment, and the only lamp i can work with is yellow and not bright enough. Since sun is setting very early in winter and that i never come back home before 6 pm on weekdays, i mostly work in this environment. I hope it will improve my pictures too !<br />
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My Sensu Project got some hours on it , i am glad the blue shippo cloud foundation is done, and the red cloud is coming well . I did a little bit (almost half) of the purple sayagata cloud too.<br />
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At this point, I have done around 22 hours of work.<br />
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Normally, the right part is not brownish but more mauve lilas . I try to remove some of the yellow taint from the light with instagram picture tools, but i can't do anything for absence of light xD Now that i received my OTTlamp, everything should go better :)<br />
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Unfortunately, no time for the bouquet this month! All my time on JE is devoted to finish my preparation for the April class. I am behind in my progress on this blog, i will maybe post new pictures while i am working on Sensu. If i have time.<br />
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#1 Villa Mirabilia</h4>
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I did a lot of work on this project (If we compare to the amont of crosstitching i did in the last year) ! My frame is small and easy to carry so i bring it when i leave home for a few days. Now that airports have less severe rules these days, i can bring everything it in my cabin luggage. Some years ago, airport security threw away my scissors... hemmmm do i look like i will attack the pilots with my smol embroidery scissors in a bag full of cross stitch threads ? I was so frustrated!<br />
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So here are pictures before and after :<br />
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I don't know if i will continue this piece. Lastly it was a distraction from the fact that i lost my Charlotte pattern. I dont really like working on 28 counts : coverage is not the same as 32 and i won't use 3 strands for a big piece like that.<br />
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This year, i participate in two SAL : WIPocalypse and Stitch from Stash (if this is a SAL xD ) . Having to do a regular SAL is giving me a lot of anxiety because i already have a lot of deadlines in my professional life. Having to set deadlines in my personnal/hobbies life would be killing me, because i see cross stitch and embroidery as a pleasure and distraction from my stressful daily life as graduate student and part time worker in a government agency. There are times in the year when i don't get much sleep (grant submissions, exams, etc), and embroidery helps me a lot in those hard times. It feels like meditation, a moment for me alone where i can put all my problems aside and concentrate one something i love and which i have no obligations.<br />
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This is why those 2 SAL are perfect for me. The WIPocalypse wants us to post when we have time, and skip one month or two.. or a complete year if needed ! There is no pressure from the community and i love it.<br />
Stitch from Stash is a community who encourage people to finish their already started WIP instead of buying and accumulating new projects, and putting the old ones in the UFO basket. When you are done with a project, you can reward yourself with buying new stuff. I really love this idea that we already have enough projects for a whole lifetime and we don't need to buy more to be happy !! I try to apply this with my own cross stitch, and also with Japanese Embroidery. Even if I would love to buy all the projects, i have to be reasonable and stick with what i have. With my two projects on the go, i have for 2-3 years worth of stitching.<br />
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When i am doing Japanese Embroidery, i have to concentrate very hard on my work. No TV at the same time ! But i enjoy listening to music. I heard or read somewhere that we should not listen to music while doing embroidery, only hear the sounds of nature. But living in downtown of a big city, my apartment is noisy all day, and it's small ! I'm living with another person and i can't impose total silence while i am doing embroidery xD So music in my ears, and i am good for hours of stitching ! </div>
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I am enjoying my new Phase 2-3 a lot ! I have become a little bit tired of working on my bouquet because this Phase 1 is way harder than the other phase 1, and the learning curve is very important. As a beginner of embroidery, this big bouquet with a lot of techniques is challenging.<br />
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On the Sensu, the homework before April class is to do foundations of the 3 clouds on the fan. We learned the techniques in phase 1, so it should be pretty easy (that's what i thought at first).<br />
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What i need to work on first, is the blue cloud that will have shippo on top, the geometrical pattern of ellipses that create a circle with a diamond in the middle<br />
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I broke this post in 2 parts because it would be too long ( I write too much I know. )<br />
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When doing foundation, our first teacher told us to put guidelines along the weft to make sure we have straight and parallel lines on all the covered area. I could not put them anymore since the fabric has a very visible weft, but I have a problem of distortion in my eyes, and I have difficulty to see straight lines. I prefer taking more time for preparation than realize half way that my lines are not parallel.<br />
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And then, we can start putting some color inside.... or twist a lot of thread before, i should say.<br />
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I have been told to prepare a lot of threads before, so all of them will have the same twist. A difference of twist will become noticeable on the foundation. Here we have 4-1T , 4 threads into 1 twisted.<br />
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After twisting a bunch of threads, time to fill in the space, staying inside the white couching.<br />
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Around 8h30 of work on this cloud up to this point.<br />
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And yes, I used a complete spool for this foundation. Did i had too much twisted thread ? Absolutely not ! After finishing my last stitch, i had one twisted thread remaining !!! This is why we have to buy 2 spools of 502 blue !<br />
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The amount of silk used for this foundation is unbelievable. 4-1T uses 4 strands to produce one. Also, the longest line from this cloud is 11 cm. Even if i did very long threads, sometimes i couldn't put more than 3 lines before having to finish it. It was very frustrating as i felt i was going very slowly. This piece is not about being easy (because putting straight lines of twisted thread along the weft is very easy), but about patience. On the Phase 1 Bouquet, i only had one big foundation on the bag (much more smaller than what i just did). On the Phase 2-3 Sensu, i have to fill 3 clouds that will use almost all of my silk spool.<br />
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Now i get a better perspective about the crazy hours needed to do a big piece like the Phase 9 Sake Box, and why we have to buy so much silk spools !! Pfiou ! The road ahead is gonna be very long ! But sure i wont let this stop me. I am ready to put the time needed into this to achieve my goals (Even if it takes 15 years xD )<br />
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Next step on the shippo cloud is holding lattice. It is the same technique as used on the valerian flowers of the phase 1 (which i didnt post pictures here... i am a bit behind with my progression on this blog... sorry !! )<br />
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On the next group meeting, i hope to receive the Ott light i ordered with Dima. The light in my appartment is not very good. I only have big lamp to work, and it uses special bulb that comes only in a yellow-ish colour. This is bad for working at night, especially when i need good light. Also, pictures appears yellow sometimes and i hate it ! I try to put some instagram filters but i would prefer to have the real color !<br />
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WIPocalypse 2019 Kickoff Post ! </h2>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi ! I hope you had a very satisfying year 2018 not only in your Embroidery/cross stitch life but in every aspect of it. And I wish your year 2019 will be better <3</span><br />
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Long time no Wipocalypse ! My last post was in April, almost one year ago :) I did not post a lot because school kept me very busy. Now that things may calm down a little bit for the next weeks - courses are over and I am writing my thesis- i may have more time to stitch and to post on the blog!<br />
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For those who are not familiar with the WIPocalypse concept, Melissa from <a href="http://measi.net/measiblog/2019/01/06/wipocalypse-2019-kickoff-post/" target="_blank">Measi's Musings</a> hosts a SAL where we are encourage to work on our embroidery WIP like it's the end of the world soon, and report our progress at the end of each month. We also have to answer some questions about ourselves, our work etc. You can read about it in the <a href="http://measi.net/measiblog/wipocalypse_main/2019-wipocalypse-info-page/" target="_blank">WIPocalypse 2019 Info Page</a><br />
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I've been posting under the name of Merlynn for a while. I needed a name on instagram and it came like this (because friends of mine used to call me Merlyn like the mage when I was younger). Fun fact is I learned at 18 years old in my second year of college that the usual name i had was not my real legal name. It was not the first time i was aware of it, but my mom always told me it was a mistake on my birth certificate. But at 18 years old, governement issued all my cards passport, driving license, etc to my new name. I was confused, but my teachers and friends were more ! Imagine the friend/student you knew for some time has now a new name. Weird !<br />
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Someday I may post under my real name.. who knows ? I consider Merlynn is perfect for the moment xD<br />
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I am a 28 years old grad student in Population Studies in Montréal (Canada) and I live with my boyfriend from the past 8 years ( before you ask, we mostly marry after children in Canada, not before xD ). I know that he reeeaallly loves me because he bought me a secret stash that fits with our couch to plank all my embroidery things that where blooming everywhere in our apartment since the last 5 years.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>
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I also work part time as a statistical assistant in a Governement Agency . I use my (almost non existent) spare time to do embroidery, mostly Cross Stitch and Japanese Embroidery. But as i wrote earlier, now that my courses, exams, etc are done, i should have more time to stitch (but we all know it's a lie).<br />
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I discovered embroidery when i was young, in 4th grade, a girl form my class was doing a Snow White embroidery in a homemade hoop, and i asked my mom if i could do the same. My mother, who didn't had any knowledge of embroidery at all - not like that girl who had been taught by her grandmother - bought me a very small cross stitch kit from a magazine. It was a porcelain cup, first of four kits of a China Set. I will always remember how much i was disappointed because i wanted a Snow White embroidery too xD I tried it anyway.... and i loved it! I did around 10 or 12 small projects from the kits i was receiving every month. (Maybe I should post about it !! )<br />
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Then, teenage hit me, and i left all the embroidery to concentrate my time on chatting on the phone about boys with my friends.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "merriweather" , serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span>Fast forward ~ 10 years later, late 2013, my mom sent me a lot of stuff including my old cross stitch staff. And then here i am in 2019, still doing embroidery !! I really love it ... when I have the time !<br />
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About my projects... well I have a lot!<br />
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<b><u>First, about cross stitch</u></b><br />
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<b># 1 Villa Mirabilia from Nora Corbett Mirabilia</b><br />
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My main goal in 2019 is to work on this.<br />
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My last picture from this project is the same as last time<br />
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Same picture as last time. The main problem with this piece is - there is always a problem !! - that I wanted to have 32ct linen to work on, but the lady at the small boutique i went only had 28ct in that colour. I got pressured into buying it to not displease the lady, but i realize years later that it wasn't a good idea. I hate to to work on 28, as i never liked 14ct Aida. I don't know if i will ever finish it, but try to do some work there and there on it. I put on some stitches this automn and during the Holidays, but don't have picture right now. Maybe in the next WIPocalypse !!<br />
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<b>#2 Charlotte, from Nora Corbett Mirabilia</b><br />
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Oh my sweet baby Charlotte.<br />
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I still cry my lost of the pattern. It was my first Mirabilia i bought and I fell in love with the colours immediately.<br />
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If I ever find or buy another pattern, I will surely finish her.<br />
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Finally, I have a lot off UFO lying in my <i>secret</i> stash. If you read some older posts on my blog, you can see all of them. At first, I don't plan to stitch them but maybe I'll pick one to work on this year, we never know what can happen !!<br />
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<b><u>Second, about Japanese Embroidery</u></b><br />
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In 2017, i had my first class in Japanese Embroidery, and it was love at first sight (almost). I now have to pieces in progress that i will absolutely work on this year !<br />
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<b>#1 Sensu, Phase 2-3 of JEC</b><br />
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In April, I will follow my second class of Japanese Embroidery, with a Teacher from Edmonton that will come to Montreal. I chose to work on Sensu for this piece<br />
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Before class, we have to do some homework : filling foundation in the 3 clouds. I worked on this in the last two weeks<br />
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This represents 5.25 hours of work, and I haven't filled the half of it !!! Japanese Embroidery is very time consuming !<br />
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Since I have to finish everything before April, and realizing the crazy amount of time i will have to put on this, this is my very main goal in the next months. I can't wait to see this piece finished !<br />
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My friend Dima is working on the other project from the same phase, Hiogi. You can follow her process here on her blog <a href="http://d1-d2.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">D1-D2</a> . She also does a lot of exquisite other types of embroidery !!<br />
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<b>#2 Bouquet from the Heart of Japan, Phase 1 of JEC</b><br />
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My first project of Japanese Embroidery ! I had to put it on the side to concentrate on my phase 2.<br />
Here is what it looks like as today<br />
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I don't know when I will work on it. Maybe when I will get tired of twisting threads !<br />
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So that's it for this long post about me and me embroidery projects for WIPocalypse 2019 ! Thanks for visiting, i hope you will enjoy my blog that i try to resurrect from time to time. I hope I can write more about interesting thing hat I come across and related to embroidery, my challenges but also my small victories.<br />
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We will see ! Trying to post every month for WIPocalypse will be a small victory in itself !<br />
You can also follow me on instagram with the @merlynn.stitch<br />
<br />Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-28830899365882615162018-12-18T16:28:00.001-08:002018-12-19T10:45:13.496-08:00Sensu - Framing and Fan Outline <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hi everyone, long time no see !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have been really busy with school lately and didn’t have a lot of time to stitch. I went to a research internship in France for 6 weeks and couldn’t bring my big frame in my luggage lol. I did a little bit of cross stitch (easier to put in a bag) but not that much because i was very busy at the univeristy there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because I was in Europe, i missed my monthly meeting of Japanese Embroidery in November, but would never missed the December one .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This meeting was special : we just received our Phase 2-3 kit and we planned to frame it before our April class ! While all the other stitchers chose Hiogi, i went with the Sensu !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(If you ask, no my phase 1 is not finished - far from it - but I need a rest from this frustrating piece xD )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For those who are not familiar with the Japanese Embroidery Center curriculum, instead of doing two separated pieces for phase 2 and 3 , there is the option to combine both in one piece . To be honest, I </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">don’t like the phase 2 fan so I find this option 2-3 very convenient . Phase 3 projects are appealing me, but it means going throught phase 2 first. I prefer enjoy one of the Phase 3 later when this 2-3 will be done .... In 5 years at my actual pace, i suppose xD .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The kit arrived with all needed threads, cottons to sew in fabric ends, chart box, one pair of lovely komas, and ... no indication on where the colours go ! Should I guess where to put all those 19 colours?? I can’t even tell the difference between the greens xD Dima emailed the JEC and they gave us the colour chart. We were glad they answered very fast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It took all day to sew our fabric ends, frame and double-lace our projects. A very long process, but since our piece may sit on the frame for a long time, it's a better idea to have it double laced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Before class, we have some "homework" to do : Outline of the fans, and foundations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As you can see, the top of the fan et the outline of the small one are not printed on the fabric. Nancy told us it was because the fabric may distort on the framing process. In order to have a beautiful piece with straight line, we have to trace the design on the fabric ourselves after framing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I used tracing paper to trace the shape of the fan, and some of the cloud lines . As you can see, my blue lines for the cloud don’t match the ones printed on the fabric . This is the distortion. You can’t see it on the picture, but I had to add 1-2 mm to each end of my tracing to martch the fabric .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When satisified with everything , i attached the paper to the fabric , making sure to put my needle in places that will be covered. This fabric looks forgiving if I pierce a hole in the wrong place, but I prefer to develop good habits now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eeeek. The lines are not <i>perfectly</i> straight. This thing is hard, and I LOVE perfect things!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now that I’m back, with courses and exams done, I expect to do a little bit of embroidery before going to see my family and leave my frame all alone for another 2 weeks for Christmas . I can’t wait to put some colors on this Sensu !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I may post some pictures of my progress on foundations, and give some news about the phase 1 Bouquet, that is growing quite slowly . I progressed a lot since my last post in May, but left it untouched for the last 2 months. Since i have some thing to do before my april class, i prefer concentrate on this Sensu. I will go back to the Bouquet after ... or maybe if i get tired to do foundation and twisting thread. It becomes boring after some time xD </span><br />
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<br />Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-77810795663671956122018-05-03T21:29:00.000-07:002018-05-03T21:29:36.644-07:00JE May 2018 Report<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hi everyone :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even if I shouldn't have had time to stitch in April, because of school... guess what happened !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I did some nice things in the last month, and I had my group meeting. This time, almost everything went well. I got a little bit frustrated on my orange chrysanthemum at some point, but now it's over. No «hours of angry removing» this time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is my progress since my last report and everything I worked on last month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Last pic is «light test». It's to make sure there are no holes or empty spaces in our foundation. It's done by putting a lamp under the fabric. I suppose everything is okay for me, but in cas something is incorrect, I still have a part of twisted thread ready.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a little bit hard. I think there is too much space in the middle of my right outter petal, but it's okay for me. I will leave it like this. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">More about the process here -> <a href="http://threadlady.blogspot.ca/2018/04/je-blue-iris-flower-is-done.html?m=1" target="_blank">Blue Iris Progress</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Bigger petal on foreground has to be done first. Then you work clockwise, and counterclockwise. I feel the right part looks better than the left part. I've got better at this. The biggest petals took me almost 1 hour each to stitch, including self padding. I am a VERY slow stitcher. It take me a lot of time to decide where i will put my next stitches. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The only thing, i feel my thread is not twisted tight enough for the first petal and those going to the left. Or maybe i am looking at my piece too close. I suppose time will tell me what is the best. Alors, I am not too satisfied with my smallest petal in the back. Maybe i'll redo it in the end. Maybe not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Actually, following the Japanese Embroidery rules, i should do the Purple Chrysanthemum on the left before the blue on the right, because the latter is in background compared to the other. But since this petal is notre overlapped by the purple ones, I decided I wont lose my precious (and expansive!) silk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In this picture, I see the difference between my day 2 of formation, where I had so much difficulty to stitch parallel, and now. Lots of improvement needed, but very satisfied with my progress from the begining.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nancy made a light test for me. My first stitches on the top have some spaces between them, I will have to add some more libes to cover it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I will put lattice on the flower at the end. And some knots to finish. Someday. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Did i said i hate knots? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So now here is what it looks like, Before /After</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">23 hours in this since february :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Working on my valerians this month... and maybe pinks !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between all my projects I had to submit, my exams, papers, grading exams (Teaching assistant job) and everything related to my Master but not the courses, I found some times there and there to <strike>stitch </strike>procrastinate. Productive procrastination. Mostly Japanese Embroidery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So my project from last WIPocalypse was there</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-Paperbag foundation is done, i will add some decoration on top after my group meeting in May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-Chrysanthemum is almost done. It needs knots and layers in the middle. I hate knots so much, so it will wait until the end, when i will have no choice but to do them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-Worked on Yellow Valerian for my monthly groupe meeting. I also had a blue flat silk thread that I didn't want to throw away, i stitch it on the chrysanthemum I'll be doing later ( I need to do the left one before, because it's on foreground)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But maybe it won't happen : I have a new full time session with courses and more Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant contract beginning in May. I just received a very big scholarship for my grades, so all this hard work of <strike>stiching</strike> studying pays off :) ... so i will find time to stitch probably. Surely. I always find time. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even if i should be writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So far I have put more than 25 hours in this. Including the removing. I began to track my time in February, so it excludes Class time and everything before February ( But I really had no time to stitch before that, so maybe a 5 or 6 hours max ? It won't make a big difference in the end I suppose). It's really time consuming but also very rewarding. I feel like I do not only put a needle in a fabric endlessly without reason, I am learning more each time the thread plunge into the fabric. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I am also very slow stitcher, contemplating my piece everytime I have to take the decision where i should put my stitch. I hate doing mistakes. I really hope i will finish this piece before next year.</span></div>
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<b><u>April 29 – Talk to us about your longest-running WIP or UFO</u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eeeeeeee. Well. My longest WIP/UFO/WIP (working on and off) is Elegance of the Orient, from Dimensions Gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was my first very big project, I laid my first stitches on it in May 2014 (Almost 4 years !!). Why did it became a UFO ? I think it's because of Aida 18 ct fabric. When i first stitched on linen 32 ct, I knew i would never come back to Aida. This why lady was sometimes put on the side while i was working on other projects. Also, after summer 2016, i didn't stitch for more than 1 year due to illness. I gradually came back to embroidery last automn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Maybe I should seek to finish it this year, or 2019. I don't know. I do not feel the urge to work on it. I don't like to set unrealistic goals I deeply know I wont respect. I prefer listening to my innerself about it what I really want to accomplish, and this piece is not on my main to-do list. I have other priorities for the moment. (sorry !) So... maybe someday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I hope you had a better month of stitching than me, and that I get more time in May. </span><br />
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Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-79436181928923940062018-04-16T15:51:00.000-07:002018-04-16T15:51:41.145-07:00JE Blue Iris Flower is done !! :)<div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The right inner petal was very hard too : because it's part under the right outter petal, you have to guess where to land your next stitches to create something balanced. I was not satisfied with my first result, and had to remove 3 times my stitches. I feel what is there is not the best it's possible to achieve, but it's the best i could do at my level of embroidery beginner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I learned great thing with this iris, i feel my eye knows better where my stitches and my needle should go to create what i want. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Also, while having a very hard time, this crossed my mind : <i>«If it's easy, then you are learning it wrong. »</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I felt like a ghost was looking above me, and telling me to perseverate. I can assure this thought didn't came from me. I am a little bit of a lazy person who loves when everything is easy. I would never ever think of something like this ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have a group meeting on the last week of April. Maybe i will work on my pinks or the orange chrysanthemum. I was supposed to be working on top layers of paperbag, but my friend Dima won't be here, and I don't want Nancy to give two times the same instructions. I hope to have some improvements to show after this meeting !</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A little bit about my group :</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In Montreal, there is a group of ladies from the Embroidery Guild who follow the JEC cursus. I think we are about 10 people working on different phases. Nancy is the lady who organize the group meeting at her house. She received the Phase X formation but she doesn't teach. She is giving us advice when needed about our stitching since she is the most advanced. She is precious help for me and Dima... and everybody I think. On our monthly group meeting, she sometimes don't even have time to stitch because there is always someone calling her for help and suggestions :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you are in Montreal and interested to see Japanese Embroidery or even take courses, the group sometimes receive teacher from other places! Next time will maybe be next spring (2019) depending on the group progress on their projects.</span></div>
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Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-80201241275348645282018-04-02T00:09:00.000-07:002018-04-05T07:34:02.862-07:00April 2018 JE Report<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hi ! I hope you had a great time in March. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between studies and other things, I had a group meeting for Japanese Embroidery at the beginning of the month, and unfortunately i had to remove a lot of work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When i came to the meeting, it looked like this :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where to begin ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>First :</b> Byebye Pinks. All of it. As I understand, Japanese Embroidery has very strict rules, but you can do some variation of your own when you are more skilled. My pinks were not done the traditional way,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"> I was very unhappy with how it looked (not the same as it should be), and a fellow stitcher suggested to remove it if not satisfied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I did it, i removed the thread. Almost. All. Of. It. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then throw away this unusable ORT's (SO MUCH THREAD... i am actually crying )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fortunately, i could re-use a part of those threads, this time stitching the good direction : from left to right. (I was stitching the wrong way). So here is what a complete day of stitching looked like : a day of unstitching. Not a single new thread was added to my work. I was SO sad. The only time I had to sitch in one month was to remove ALL of the past work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I felt very crappy for some days. I was in mid semester time, had a lot of papers to submit for my Master then, and I was impatiently waiting for my stitching day to relax. Well...it never happened. I did what i had to do, then put my work in my case until i could find courage to redo everything. After 3 weeks, when i found time between my studies, I felt urge to stitch, so i put my frame on the stand, and went back to work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I could add a little 5 hours of stitching, so here is what it looks like as today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had to remove a little part on the middle, but it will be very fast to stitch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The big problem is, with this mistake of not doing the paperbag the good way at first, i had to throw away so much thread... now i don't have much left :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our next group meeting is at the end of April. I was given a goal, if possible : finish the paperbag (while finishing my Master courses :/ ). Since i still have brown to put on it, and so little left, I want to wait for the group discussion to not mess up more things and risking to not have enough if i still do mistakes. I will wait, and work on something else Knowing my friend Dima won't be here in April, I will probably be working on something else, and wait for her to comeback in May, so we could do this together. She also had to redo her paperbag and is also short on thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well... almost. I didn't took a picture of the paperbag finished. Without the pinks, my embroidery looks so empty :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good thing is, the last day went better than i thought it would. We worked on 'easier' things </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first thing was finishing the outline of the paperbag, and put guidelines to follow the weft of fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That part was way easier than what i did before. You twist the thread, and stitch inside de outline, while making sure to go parallel every time, following the guidelines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, the last part was about the pink flower. They have to be worked in short and long stitch. In this orang, i will put white and gold thread. It will look great. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Even if it was hard, I got a lot of fun. I am able to blog about it because after 6 month my interest on Japanese embroidery is still very high. Even with the difficulties i face, i manage to continue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the fellow stitcher is having a monthly meeting at her home, so everybody could have a full day of working on their different pieces ( A gift from the sky, knowing i dont really have time with school, i could never be able to find time to stitch ! ). Plus, having a group helps when you have questions or incertitudes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From now, I will post a monthly report of my work, what I did, what went good and bad. When Carol-Ann Conway from Threads Across The Web ans Susan from Plays With Needle were still doing Japanese embroidery, I got a lot of pleasure reading their blog about their struggles. Knowing they had great times and also difficult helps me when I struggle on something, since i am very fan of their stitchings ( They do it so good ! ). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you have the opportunity to try Japanese embroidery, i encourage you to go for it :) And I hope you will get as much pleasure as i have to stitch with silk and learn this beautiful art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">here is my monthly progress as March <strike>25</strike> 31 WIPocalypse (almost on time !) . I've been talking a lot about Japanese Embroidery, but i still work sometime on my cross stitch. I've done a lot since my last monthly report, had some new starts on the way ( but no finishes ^_^ )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">WIPocalypse rules are here on <a href="http://measi.net/measiblog/wipocalypse_main/2018-wipocalypse-info-page/" target="_blank">Measi Blog</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So here is the question of the month : </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This year, I discover more of Japanese embroidery. I love de Japanese Embroidery Center designs, and also Midori Matsushima's ones. I love the silk thread, you can do so much with it, it's a pleasure to stitch because of its delicacy and beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I won't lie, March was kinda hard for me. I've made a lot of work in February, but had to remove A LOT (like 6 or 7 hours of work, maybe more) because some things were not quite right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(It looks so empty without pinks !!! )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This piece is a small kit from Midori Matsuchima. I did a little but of work on it, but it was before i has my Japanese Embroidery Class... si it's VERY FAR from perfect. Since i'am working mostly on my bouquet, i don't know when I will comme back on it. Maybe i will remove everything now that i had a complete formation. So here is what i looked like on the last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's a little bit sad. I should really remove everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most of my time is on Japanese embroidery.... but i still do cross stitch ! Usually when i am too tired to do anything but repetitive movement and counting while watching movie. There is something very relaxing about cross stitching, almost contemplating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In those 3 years (Ishhh.. ) of not blogging, i did a lot of work. I will try to recall every WIP and new beginnings i made ( And no finishes at all lol). I will try to have NO OTHER BEGINNINGS this year ... easier said than done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ok so let's go back to my <strike>UFO's</strike>... WIP's to see what was improved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yesss ! A lot of work done ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Yes ! A little bit. Not easy to spot on this pictures. I will have another one someday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yay ! Moredone. But still unfinished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is where it hurts. When you should work on your things and you literally procrastinate cross stitch by cross stitching something else !!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay, I lied earlier when saying i finished nothing. I began AND finished this little cutie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Annnnd thats it. For my defense, two of them were on a Eventually-To-Do-List. And i finished another one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So i think that's it... </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I feel so guilty for having all those WIP. Not blogging made me lose track of what i was working on, and how much of them i had !!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ok, this was long post. It's the punishment for not blogging for so long. Thanks for having made through it !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all : Japanese knots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So while other stitcher were doing somme beautiful flowers with the french knots, all I did was...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Those. Horribles. Tentatives. Of. Straight. From. Hell. Things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the top left, there three almost correct knots. The rest were... yuck. «Practice», yeah. Not a single knot was stitched on the piece that day ( nor 6 months later). My problem is about not pulling the good loop so it creates this kind of tail on the top f the knot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For info: I got a crash course of Japanese knot last month, they look better know but still haven't put any on the fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Second struggle of the day : Bush clover. There are 34 of those little devilish things in the piece. We suppose the mad/genius creator of this piece made sure we would know how to stitch them properly at the end of the phase 1. Slow clap for him, they are very hard to do. In fact, they look like being easy. You start on one side, move and turn and shorten the stitches next to the top then turn and do longer and.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The teacher said it was not that bad.... but she made me redo the right part two times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">( There is a small difference between the two pictures, I don't know if you will notice it)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the afternoon, it was a litte bit more relax. We made a special thread, supertwisted thread that we had to put in water and made to dry before stitching. It is used for the stem of flowers. It looks super shiny and i love it texture. We couch it with little regular twisted thread of the same colour (green).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The little seeds ont the side if the green stems is where i should have put my (not on point) knots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So this is what the progress of that horrible day looked like : One leaf, 3 cm of stems and half outlining. And 30 ugly knots on the side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doing this blog post 6 months later, i remember the mixed feelings of that day. I was very naive about the Japanese embroidery.. like i knew it would be difficult be living those difficulties for real is not the same. After almost 3 years of waiting for this class, i never thought i would be <i>that</i> hard. Seeing the other stitchers doing there knots almost perfectly (because embroidering for years), I felt a little bit left behind. Moreover not able to distinguish angles and where the needle should land to have te perfect stitch, have to redo 2 times a single side of a leaf... Aouch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But the most important is... i'm not a quitter. It was not the first fail i had in my life, and certainly not the last. When life knocks you down, the only thing you can do is stand up. So I stood up, had a great night of sleep, ready for my fourth and last day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A question may be asked : why do i began with some petals particularly? Because there is a rule in Japanese Embroidery that the front item have to be stitched before the background. In those 3 pictures, i stitched those items because they were ont the foreground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the chrysanthemum, you have to begin with the bigger petal in front of the other, and then do the others. The one on the left is my first one. The last will be the two little in the back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'am so excited. I have been waiting for this day for so long. I will finally learn all the secrets of Japanese embroidery. The teachers gave us an inspirational speech for our first, about seeking perfection but not be overwhelm by it. She said the journey was more important than the goal, and we should not seek perfection at any price at the beginning, it will come with time and practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This my work place, ready to begin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our first lesson is learning to twist the silk. With 4 brands of flat silk, we have to make twisted threads. Easier said than done. The teacher told me i could twist the silk a little bit more tight. </span></div>
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Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-76466450389248192652018-02-28T22:36:00.001-08:002018-03-01T21:18:37.486-08:00Japanese Embroidery Class Phase 1 - Day 0<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have no words to tell how I was excited to attend my first day of Japanese Embroidery class. I was waiting for this day for so many years. Instead of me going to Atlanta to follow the Phase I course, a teachers came in Montreal. Her name is Sue Sprake from London, Canada. It was a dream coming true ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The teacher made sure to order everything we would need for Phase I : Threads, silk, needle.. etc. Another lady from the group order the wood frame we are using for JE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the time for embroidery was quite limited ( 5 day class), Sue asked our frame to be mounted already for day one. It was a good idea because it took almost 3 hours for the 4 beginners to have their piece ready. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of my tools : </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- Tekobari, long stroking needle to make the silk flat and shiny</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, the seven colours we will need for the project. Silk tread is a pleasure to work with... but also a creation of the devil. It lays so beautifully on the fabric, until you snag it with the side of your thumb. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">« If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.»</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By the way, if you know any Japanese embroidery blog these days, let me know ! I'm always looking for inspiration !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last post was almost 3 years ago. Lot of things happened !! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since I had to put lots of efforts on school i had to stop blogging, i was taking me a lot of time. I was also giving myself irrealisable deadlines for my stitching. While working, going to school, life, I was not able to put all the time i wanted in stitching and felt ashamed, since i value myself mainly on performance. Now, i let myself the right to not have time to do some embroidery, and i feel great about it. (Ok, I'm lying, i always want to stitch, even if i don't have time!) I'm now in Graduate Program in university, so i still have so much work to do and no time for what i want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not only master is a great news, i have another one, very important : </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finally got my Japanese Embroidery lessons! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The one i was waiting for so long. At first i has prepared myself to go to Atlanta on September 2016, but got a last minute impediment... I was so sad, but began to prepare another trip for the year after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Luckily, a teacher of JE came in Montreal in October 2017. I had the chance to meet a group of japanese embroidery in my city. We now have a monthly meeting for a full day of stitching at the house of one of the ladies. I feel so blessed to have meet those ladies, and that wouldn't have happened if i went to my class in 2016. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I plan to post pictures and progression of my Bouquet From the Heart of Japan, the Phase I of the Japanese Embroidery Center. Instagram is nice to post picture, but it's hard to tell a story about my struggles and achievements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If possible, i want to document my journey like the two blogs i've been following for so long : Susan Elliott from <a href="http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Plays with needles</a> and Carol-Anne Conway from <a href="http://threadsacrosstheweb.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Threads Across the Web</a>, even if it's been long time they didn't post anything. They were a great inspiration for me, and i think it's the best way to do a tribute for them by posting my own journey on a blog. I hope they'll make a comeback someday !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did a lot of cross stitching, and posted it on Instagram since 2015. You can follow me on @marilym.stitch if you want. I have some pictures of progression on a lot of things. I will still post pictures of cross stitch if by some reason i do work on my WIP, but mainly most of my time is on JE now.</span></div>
Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-77763498441310314172015-01-20T17:18:00.002-08:002015-01-20T17:20:07.528-08:00HAED 50% on ALL charts !<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just received this email : <a href="http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=63d8484e748cafcb21839420f&id=1d97d671e4&e=3a2be8b0e8" target="_blank">50% off on all charts !</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Until January 30 2015 ! Dear Stitch From Stash participant, this is your chance to buy at low cost that chart you wanted for soooo long ! Spread the good news !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have a nice day :) </span>Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-14690811027970902512015-01-19T17:09:00.000-08:002015-01-19T17:09:36.212-08:00IHSW Report Jan 2015 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rules for this are simple : Stitch all the weekend ! As much as your time permits it !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Exactly what I've been doing because i've been attacked by a terrible cold and fever that left me staying home and doing nothing <i>«productive»</i> all the weekend ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nothing productive meaning I felt like my brain was swimming in some jelly. Result : no homeworks and lectures, only sleeping, movies and stitching ! ( A week end of break sometime isn't bad ? )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made a lot of progression on 3 projects from Friday to Sunday night ( Yep, missed my classes on Friday, I could'nt get out of bed, it was like a truck passed on me while I was sleeping )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is it for this month. My stitching pace is slow if I compare to others I follow but it's okay for me. It is not a race, I stitch because I love to ! </span></div>
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I'm not sure to have time for the next one, because the due date will fall almost in the same period as my exams, and I suppose it would be suicide to dedicace all my weekend on stitching .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy New Year everybody ! I wish you time, health, love et 50% reduction on thread and patterns for 2015 !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2014 was a great year for me. After more than 10 years without cross stitching, i found my old sewing box covered in dust. Since I had quit my part time job in 2013, it was the first time I had nothing to do during Christmas time. (I had always been working fulltime during the 3 weeks vacations to have more money). And this is where everything started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One year later, I am very pleased to have a blog and show you my projects and progressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Everything was listed as new project in 2014, so I don't have picture of before/after to show you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, let's go with the progression of my work so far, separated by resolutions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>#1 Elegance of the Orient</b>, <i>Dimensions/Gold Collection</i></span><br />
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I didn't make progression this month, here is just a picture to show you where I am for now. I hope to finish it in 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the one I've been working the most on during Christmas Vacation. I completed the Elbow, the hairs, a little bit of the flower and almost finished the face (She looks more like a human now ! ) I love working on this project. The thread and the Aida are high quality ( Thanks Anchor kit! ) this is a pleasure to work with thread that's not knotting every 10 minutes ! I hope to give it to my parents this year !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No work has been done on this one on December. I do it very slowly, I hope to make a little bit of progression this year but i'm not sure to finish it, since I have more enjoying projects than this one. ( Hope it will not become a UFO ... It would be my first one :/ )</span><br />
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New start here !! Because I can't bring Jazz Cafe home when my parents are there, I was stitching this one. Here is a picture of the work so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can see there is a major difference in the colours (grey and purple) It is because the image of the package I received was this. With purple. Such disagrement to see the grey thread instead of the beautiful purple expected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was sooooo disapointed. I decided to look in my stash where i own more than 200 skeins. I found the 3 purples matching so I began to stitch. But then, I-don't-know-how-many-hours-later, I saw the picture of the two other cross stitch pictures associated with this one :</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well.... the two are made with grey thread. The package lied to me. I will remove the purple thread when I will have more courage. Until then.... I hope to make progress on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My little sister paid me a one year subscription of the Magazine The World of Cross Stitching for Christmas, and I will work on the little minis they're sending each month. This is the January project, a little card ^__^</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The problem is, I can go there and buy only the things I have to !!!! I fell in the Mirabilia Collection and absolutely had to return home with her :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The owner didn't had the fabric in stock so she ordered it for me. I will receive it in one or two weeks. I can't wait to do the first stitch !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Surprisingly, It costed me around 85$ CAN for everything (including taxes) and would have cost me 88,37$ CAN (At today's rate) if i had bought the exact same thing on 123Stitch with shipping fees ... ) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, this is it, I hope to be here on January 2016 to see the progress made through the year, and that you'll be still following me ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(So sorry if there are mistakes, I try to improve my English everyday !! )</span></div>
<br />Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-74267123847596883472015-01-11T19:53:00.001-08:002015-01-16T12:55:31.098-08:00WIPocalypse January<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oupsi ! Sorry for the late post for the WIPocalypse ! School just began this week and I had a lot of things to do because i'm on the Conseil Executif ( Don't know how to translate :/ ) of my Program Association.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here I am, my name is Marilyn. I live in Mont-Royal, neighborhood in Montreal, province of Quebec ( In Canada, but since i'm not feeling as much Canadian, Quebec is enough ^__^ ). I am 24 years old and I'm studying in Demography and Statistics (But it's easier for people to understand when I tell them Population Studies and Mathematics). I hope to receive my diplome in June 2016, and then continue to the Graduate Program in Demography or in Biostatistics ( But for the last one, I will need a killer GPA... that's why i'm working so hard and don't have a lot of time for cross stitch ) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I live with my boyfriend since 2012, the one BF who loves me for everything I am, even when I return home after buying everything in sight at the cross stitch boutique. (Yeah the rolling eyes he makes is love demonstration :) )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started cross stitch last year, after more than 10 years of break. I found my old box full of threads and patterns.. with some UFO inside ! The BF will tell you he had not signed for this, but it's ok (I think) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Exactly one year later, here I am with a blog and 1 000 000 000 000 new projects in mine ( But not as much in my bank account )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(The link send you on the page of the label associated to the project progression. If you only want the lastest picture, I invite you to go to the WIP page ^_^(To be done soon.. I hope))</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://threadlady.blogspot.ca/search/label/Jazz%20Cafe" target="_blank">Jazz Cafe</a> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And.... That's it ! I will surely modify this list trough the year, but this is a good start. </span></div>
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Merlynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13026990250310774671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3922056340900063732.post-86478928750038479552014-12-09T13:24:00.000-08:002014-12-09T13:24:14.147-08:00Christmas before time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm writing you from my overheated appartement ( I think the landlord is allergic to cold ), while the snow begins falling outside, slowly and gently. Weather forecast announce 25 cm tomorrow, with super strong winds of 70km/h.<br />
Readers, I present you Canadian Winter. Canadian winter, here are blog readers. Maybe I'll have picture for you ^_^ (Because I still got 2 exams tomorrow, and 25 cm of snow is NOT a reason to close the university. )<br />
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But, the snow is not the main reason for my title here. Something more exciting !<br />
My mom told me yesterday she had no idea what to offer me for Christmas. I suggested : Why not one of the Millenium frame I showed her last time ? My dad is CabinetWorker ( Erf, google translate, he makes wood furnitures ) and maybe he could make me one of those ?<br />
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Well, since my dad have too much too do, she decided to buy me one ! I was sooo glad !<br />
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And more over, my little sister bought me a one year subscription for The World of Cross stitch magazine ( Insisting on the fact that she want me too do the littles freebies for her baby... which will be done with great pleasure ! )<br />
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Jazz Cafe from Maia Anchor , I have done a little bit of the hair, maybe more than the half, and began the white flower.</div>
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I've began this one during the summer, but since I want to offer the Jazz Cafe to my mom, i've put it on the side for the moment to concentrate on my future gift.<br />
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Here is The Mad Hatter from HAED design, made by Hanna Lynn (I'm a total fan of her work !)<br />
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This is the first time I stitch on evenweave fabric and I love it ! I think it is smoother than Aida, and the finish is less rought.<br />
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I will gladly show you what is tent stitch in another post ! This sort of stitch is the easiest (in my opinion) with HAED design. It's a kind of Half-stitch, but with better cover than the regular one. I use the parking method too because ... well because I'm not crazy enough to try to do this with the perfect back technique.<br />
And the big hole on the latest picture it is because I dont have this exact colour of thread. Since I bought almost 250 skeins the last time, and rolling them was a real nightmare, I thought making a break was not a bad idea. ( Ok the little boutique that sells embroidery stuff had 13 colours missing in the ones I needed for this, and I was too lazy to go back 2 weeks after )<br />
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Soooo this is it for this week. Pray for me to have success in my exams that are beginning tomorrow until Friday. May all the gods me on my side, and the spirit of all the mathematicians who would be terribly mad against me not doing my homeworks !<br />
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(And please, If somewhere I had a bad use of a word in English, I will be very happy to know. I'm writing this blog to be better in with the Shakespeare language. Don't be shy to correct me :) )<br />
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I've just begun my 2nd year of 3 of my undergraduate in mMathematics and Population Studies. This is one of the hardest undergraduates in the Faculty of Social Sciences of University of Montreal (The worst is Mathematics and Economics, cold chills in my back just to think about it).<br />
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This is why I don't have all the time I wished to stitch. With more than 20 hours of courses and TP each week (Practical Work if I translate, kind of homework courses), this is terrible. But I keep a good minding about it, because, unlike the others undergraduates in social sciences, like sociology or anthropology, there is a good job waiting for every students who complete the grad course. Since we are only 20 each year to begin the courses, the employers usually hire the students before they finish.<br />
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I found what I wanted to do in life only at 22 years old. Dears readers, if your kids don't know what they want to be in the future, it's okay. Let them find their way and don't put pressure on them. The most important thing is to be happy in where you are in life. And this is the only thing you should wish for your children :)<br />
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No, I didn't only studied this autumn, I've been doing a lot of stitching. (A little too much, my 20 pages paper due for next Thursday have a progression of... 0% -____- )</div>
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Let's take a look to my Elegance Of Orient from Dimensions</div>
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I think I have made a good progression on it. The roses began to appear, and the bottom of the Blue kimono. I will have closer pics next time.</div>
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I want my back to be neat and perfect. it's is a little bit more complicated to do the stitching this way, but not very hard. Once you know how it works, it becomes very easy !</div>
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I will show you how to do this some day. It is important of you want to do towel or other projects where the back is as important as the front, because people could see it.</div>
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This autumn, I have made a New start, with one of the kits I received in the end of September</div>
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It is called Jazz Cafe from Maia Anchor</div>
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(The colours are less bright in real life, it's because of my lamp)</div>
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This is what I made for the moment. I want to offer this to my parents, because it would fit perfectly in their Living room. They are musician and the theme of the decoration is Jazz music. I hope they will like it !</div>
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It was the first time too I had to work with black aida. It is harder than the white one, because you don't really see the holes, and you have to guess them sometimes. If I have a negative point for dark Aida, is that you need a very good light to work on it. I'm happy to be young and have good eyes, because this would be very hard.</div>
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I would be glad to read you about it !</div>
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For know, I have a semester to finish, and good grades with it, I hope !</div>
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Special greetings to everybody from Buffalo who are experiencing the Great Canadian Winter<br />
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I have a loooot of new stuff and pics to show you !<br />
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First off all, I bought a box full of Anchor and DMC threads, because I wanted to start new projects that were not the kits i usually have.<br />
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Pics of new WIP next post ! <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">(⌒▽⌒)☆ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Doing cross stitching when i was a teenager, i recently open my old embroidery box to find a UFO started and abandoned in 2005... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, time to «retrousser ses manches» as we say in french ! (whehehe sorry, Im French Canadian ) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As there were a LOT of mistakes, i have been watching cross stitching videos to learn a second time how to cross stitch and realize i was doing it all wrong at 14 y-o !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After 3 months of angers and cries, i finished this little project. And then, i discovered that there were à lot of young people like me who where crazy fans of cross stitch, who posted pictures and videos of their projects. Why not me ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As my first post here, I will put pictures of my WIP, and those that are finished !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(I take my picture with my phone that is NOT Iphone, sorry for the bad quality )</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Soo here are my few projects !</span><br />
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T<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">his one is called Elegance of the Orient, from Dimensions. I fell in love with this beauty the first time i saw it on Deviantart. As my first project was finished, the one thing i've done after was to order this kit ! I've been working on it since April 25 (the day i received it hehe). It is the first time i work on Aida 18ct and it is harder than expected after ben working for 4 months on Aida 14.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This project, i'm trying to do it with the Perfect Back technique. I will post pictures another time, and tips if you want to do the same !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(Is there someone who knows how to «turn» pictures on this blog? )</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one don't have any name, only a number. It is from Permin of Compenhagen. It is a kind of little kit, really simple to do. This is what my mother bought me when i was very young. I have a lot of them in my embroidery box ! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I put only 2 hours of works to do it a this point. I wish to give it to my little sister who is waiting for a baby !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When they tell you : choose something you really like because at one point, ou will be thinking of throwing it in the fire.. hell yeah this is true ! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">This is called Hummingbirds & Fuchsia from Dimensions, made on Aida 14. It is this one that I found unfinished ( and I remembered why ! ) If it was not of my boyfriend cheering me up, and telling me me that UFOing is bad, i would have throw this one in the garbage. My aunt gave me this 10 years ago and I never really liked it ! But sinc</span><span style="text-align: center;">e it is finished, it's okay i feel better ^^</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you notice, there are French Knot in this piece ! They are not perfect, since it was the first time i attempted to do this. Thanks to youtube ^^</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is another Permin of Copenhagen kit with no name, received from my mom when I was very young. Made on Aida 14, it took me only one week to finish ( knowing I was in the end of the semester and studying/exams all over the head).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one i really love to do it. The colours where wonderful( I looooove pink ! ) and it will match perfectly with the baby room for my little sister ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And this is it for now, maybe I will find other treasuries to show you !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And before saying goodbye, a little bit about me !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My name is Marilyn and I am 24 years old. French is my first language and i have some difficulties with English, but i try very hard on this side. I'm living in Montreal, where i do an Undergraduate in Statistics and Population Studies, in University of Montreal ( Even tough i come from Saguenay, which is 6 hours in the north. Yeah, North of Canada \o/ ) I'm working part-time in a restaurant, and studying in the same time ( Yes, i have a summer session -___- ) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't have a lot of time for cross stitching, i wish i had more. But eh ! I want good grades, and i want money... so stitching comes last ! I also love playing Playstation. For the moment i enjoy Oblivion (since my ex coloc «stole» my Skyrim game ). I do RPG too with a group of friend. If you don't know what is Dungeons and Dragons, it will be a pleasure to explain it to you ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well hope you will enjoy my blog, as I enjoy reading about other people !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(No, i don't have any cats, but i have thread. And I'm crazy too.)</span><br />
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