Source: Crossed Wings kitMaterials: 40-count silk gauze and silk threads
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This was probably one of the first crafts I "helped" someone do; I can remember stitching on a bargello piece at a young age, but I can't remember which relative it was. (Funny thing, though: in my family, needlepoint's been a man's craft. My grandfather and father both did a lot of it; I'm sure Grandma did some, but it wasn't one of her major activities. Maybe that's why I don't do as much needlepoint as other needlecrafts?)
Source: Crossed Wings kit
Materials: 40-count silk gauze and silk threads
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I'd had this kit for some years and had kept saying I'd get around to it later. Then, when I started dating a wonderful man who's several years older than me, I realized that my days of good close vision are numbered. So I started this kit.
It's slow work, and while I can still see it fairly well, I think it'd be a lot easier if I had decent magnification. I don't think I'll try silk gauze needlepoint again. But I'm glad I did it once.
Started May 2004
Finished September 2005
Source: Herrschner's kit
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A needlepoint sampler. A cat is sticking its head out from under a patchwork blanket; the "patches" each use different stitches. It was a fairly easy project; I lost the thread for several years in between moves, but fortunately I found it again.
Started July 1988
Finished April 1995
Source: Watermelon Cubed, Sandy Crow
Another from a Ginger's Needlearts class. Very simple -- a watermelon-patterned square. I did this as a present for my dad, a true Southerner!
Started May 1995
Finished June 1995
Source: Needlecraft for Today
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An experiment to use up some weird colors of no-name floss. Works okay, but I need a different sized egg to cover properly.
Started 1988
Finished June 1995
Source: some unknown kit
Okay, this one I should've kept. It was a needlepoint kit, of three owls in a tree. Cute little piece, except that the background is this hideously ugly shade of light green. And it warped pretty badly during the stitching, so I got rid of it. In retrospect -- I like owls a lot, and there's places in my house where that green would disappear into the surrounding colors. Ah, well.
Started by someone in my family, probably in the 1970s
Finished around 1985
Source: Needlecraft for Today,
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This one's a good use of plastic canvas -- a box designed to hold a couple decks of playing cards. Quite neat, and easy.
Started and finished January 1988
Source: Needlecraft for Today,
A half-circle-shaped box, with hearts on the sides and a rainbow on the top. I gave this one away after a few years -- it's a bit of an awkward shape for anything I'd store in it, and in retrospect I should've ignored the color pattern they gave for the rainbow and used colors that I liked. But if I ever feel like it, I can make it again; it was a relatively fast project.
Started July 1987
Finished September 1987
Source: Needlecraft for Today
A rainbow and clouds, with little hearts hanging down. I gave this away to a coworker who was pregnant. In retrospect, I kind of miss it, but hey -- I still have the pattern, so if I start missing it THAT much, I'll just make it again.
Started July 1987
Finished December 1987
Last updated 11 October 2005
