A few more rows...
I had to do the row of boats over again, because when I was on the last boat I realized I had a spacing error. I think I've made some sort of counting error on almost every row.
The row after the boats is done using the Norwich stitch and represents the iceburgs in Newfoundland. The boats beside Signal Hill are the Bluenose which is on the Canadian dime. I really like the next row of whale tails sticking out of the water. And now I'm on a row of little lighthouses. Each miniature lighthouse is a copy of a real lighthouse in Atlantic Canada. I never really went into the details of each row on this sampler before, but each and every row represents something specific in Atlantic Canada and Jeanette Douglas describes them all in the pattern.
I was really hoping this would be done by now. My next Cyberclass started today and I'm torn between working on that (which I obviously should) or finishing this. I find the rows take a lot longer than I expect on Eastern Seaboard because there are a lot of partial stitches, blended needles, and backstitching in some of the rows.
I'm off for the next few days, but will have a lot of overtime in the next couple of weeks (36 hours), so, I'm going to take advantage of all of the time I have and get as much done as I can. I will probably start Butterfly Lace (my Cyberclass course), but I doubt I'll finish it during the 3 week class because of the overtime.
So much to stitch and so little time!
Karen
3 comments:
An I treating Sampler Karen, thanks for the information. I wish there were more hours in the day to stitch also.
Sheila
Great progress on ES. I found it really interesting that each lighthouse is a copy of a real one. I think I've been to just about every one of those lighthouses!
Hope you get in lots of stitches before that overtime begins.
Jeannette's designs are always VERY detailed and she puts so much work into the research she does for each and every piece. I don't think I've known anything from her to be a quick stitch.
As for the spacing of rows always checke the center of the row first she'll often throw in a "compensating" thread in the middle instead of having 2 threads between motifs flanking the center she'll put 3 threads. You can't assume anything with Jeannette's pieces but they're well worth the work!
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