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If you're just joining in on the stitch-along, you can find the Garden Swirl Project Index here. Today, we're going to move right along on Garden Swirl, by stitching a few more flowers on the piece. But just briefly, I used a custom-cut board that fit into the decorative box lid, I used a low-loft soft interfacing / batting, glue, paintbrush, pins, and clips.

These towel sets are available now, here in the shop. We used the simplest of embroidery stitches for these fellows: stem stitch for all the outlines, seed stitching to fill some of their garments and the toad stools, some satin stitch here and there, and some simple flower stitches, like lazy daisy stitch, some French knots here and there, fishbone stitch on some leaves, and straight stitch.

Strip your floss and put the two strands back together, to get the best coverage. That sounds ominous and rather old-time gangster. If you're just joining in, you'll find part 1 - which covers materials, tools, and the design - here.

Welcome to part 2 of the stitch-along for Garden Swirl. The stitch-along lessons will begin about a week after we finish shipping the kits. It's a little project and it goes pretty q. I also use them to line bread baskets, gift baskets, Easter basketsand the like.

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The towel set above is called French Sampler. These towels are for surface embroidery. More on all that when we get to that point! With these ready-to-stitch stamped cross stitch towels, a couple tips for stitching may come in handy:.

The towel set does not come with instructions or with thread.

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We're almost finished with the embroidery. Try to keep your threads flat and untwisted, so that the strands lie as parallel to each other as possible. Next Monday, I'll be creating a Project Index for Garden Swirl, which will be available under "Tips & Techniques" in the main menu her.

Finishing Supplies We will talk about the supplies that I used for finishing, when we get to that point in the stitch-along. Today, we're going to move forward on Garden Swirl, our current stitch-along on Needle 'n Thread. Welcome to the last installment of Garden Swirl, wherein we mount the finished embroidery project in the lid of the decorative box.

I learned to embroider when I was a kid, when everyone was really into cross stitch remember the '80s? And here they are, finished and ready to go! Stitch in rows, working the lower half of the stitch in one direction and returning along the row in the other direction, working the upper half of the cross stitch.

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday in Kansas - a little later start to the week than intended, but here we are.

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Each towel features a different variation in the design theme, already imprinted on the towel so that it is ready for you to stitch it when it arrives in the mail. Our last element of the kit will arrive the week of July 7th, if the manufacturing and shipping elves are working in our favor.

For those who are just coming upon this stitch-along, you can find all the previous installments of Garden Swirl available here in the Garden Swirl Project I. We used the simplest of embroidery stitches for these fellows: stem stitch for all the outlines, seed stitching to fill some of their garments and the toad stools, some satin stitch here and there, and some simple flower stitches, like lazy daisy stitch, some French knots here and there, fishbone stitch on some leaves, and straight stitch.

Eventually, I migrated to surface embroidery, teaching myself with whatever I could get my hands on All Rights Reserved.

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Anna is still alive. I am glad they arrived. The towels are suitable for kitchen use, for decoration, or for use in other ways. You can use whatever stitches you want, to embroider these little guys.

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Woohoo! For stitches, I recommend playing with stitches you want to learn, or sticking with your tried-and-true favorites. There, you'll find all the previous installments, including design and material. The cost fluctuated slightly due to a rise in the value of the Euro and import duties.

For example, work the lower half of each cross stitch from lower left to upper right. Happy Monday!

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Stitch the top half of each cross stitch from lower right to upper left. This leaves you completely free to choose your own stitches and your own color schemes. I like to use them in the middle of my table for a casual center topper.