White and dark brown squares following each other, adding line after line as the kettle grows under my needle. Pearl and dark chocolate silk threads; just typing that now leaves a taste of chocolate. Chess tea kettle with a curved kettle spout and metal handle with wooden roll – handle from my childhood that so many…
Copper tea kettle surrounded by stitched words and tea strainers. Copper, as it should be with distinct blue at the bottom. Signature of time. Multi-coloured by numerous shades of each silk thread used. It is a gamble – choosing which end to start with or use to continue the stitch line, darker shade or lighter…
My first time ever on 40 count linen. One floss of thread working over two threads of linen. 9 big charts! A long journey. Slightly scared of the finesse and patience it cries for. It will take an eternity to make it through! Hm….seems not as hard as I anticipated. And now, having started just…
Tempting Tangles, designer and owner Deborah Dick, specializes in cross-stitch and needlepoint designs of antique style, as she claims for an “adventurous and discerning stitcher to create heirloom quality stitcheries”. Adventurous? Me? Certainly!!!! One of the newest motifs, just launched February this year, “Tempting Teas” and it follows one of her previous works…
Here they are, in my hands. Pleasant touch of real silk and admiration of tints and tinges. Australian brand residing in Houston now, has their own production in Thailand from local silk. Dinky-Dyes is a play on the word Dinky-Die which means genuine or the real thing and yes, it feels like I have ‘the…
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