tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84656809913400858892024-03-17T19:08:55.393-04:00Baroque Embellishments"... and the works of their hands tell a story - each thread connecting us to those who came before. And the story endures...."
from Piecework Magazine 1993Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-9110629726171805242015-03-07T10:00:00.000-05:002015-03-07T10:00:32.134-05:00Update On My Embroidery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can not embroider anymore. Due to Lupus I've lost feeling in my fingertips - enough that I can no longer feel the fine threads I worked with. It became obvious over the Spring/Summer of 2013 when I was working on the pieces for Nicola Jarvis and <i>Inspirations</i> magazine. The quality of my embroidery declined. The process became difficult; then tiresome. During the same period I lost someone dear to me. The embroidery became a minor issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love creating beauty and I will miss embroidery. But, Spring is around the corner and it's time to move forward. An idea occurred to me recently. I've been tossing it around in my head; a way to use embroidery designs in a different medium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you all for following my embroidery, for your conversations, and your passion. The online embroidery community is a very giving and thoughtful one. I have thoroughly enjoyed the time I've spent with you.</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-70514898036000396332013-05-29T08:41:00.000-04:002013-05-29T08:41:05.275-04:00A Third Thomas Trevelyon Manuscript?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm just about finished with the Bluebird (pics to follow shortly), and beginning to think about my next project. Inspirations periodical has asked me to design a small Thomas-Trevelyon-inspired piece for their Christmas issue. Searching the web for any new Trevelyon research, I came across this<a href="http://collation.folger.edu/2012/12/a-third-manuscript-by-thomas-trevelyontrevelian/" target="_blank"> interesting article from the Folger website</a>, written by Heather Wolfe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This 3rd Trevelyon manuscript probably pre-dates the 2 existing! The article is also interesting in that it addresses some of the original sources for Trevelyon's drawings (many of which he reproduced from contemporary documents).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The author is asking for help identifying original sourcing for a new section of illustrated alphabet. Those of you who also spend hours immersed in Elizabethan imagery like myself should have a gander at it to see if the embroidery world can help (photos about 3/4ths down in the article).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Folger folks are hoping that this new manuscript will help to uncover some biographical details about Trevelyon. </span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-73622291768909114342013-05-20T22:42:00.000-04:002013-05-20T22:42:56.106-04:00I Went To The Woods Because I Wished To 'Think' Deliberately<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">To get a life-sized drawing of the purse to work with I dropped the photo into iPhoto. In iPhoto, I enlarged it until the height measurement, when measured with a ruler laid on my </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">laptop screen, equaled the dimension Nicola gave me: 15cm. Then I checked the width measurement to be sure the ratio had been maintained. It always is, but I like to be certain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Next, I opened my laptop as far as possible and using the screen as a light box I traced the purse outline onto tracing paper. At this enlargement, the purse was larger than my laptop screen, so I traced, scrolled, and finished tracing. I checked measurements again and all was as before. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Now to come up with a background design. It was a nice enough Saturday afternoon so I threw my sketch pad in my bike basket and pedaled to my favorite quiet destination. I came up with this sketch.</span></div>
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-30247212271849710872013-05-19T12:27:00.000-04:002013-05-19T12:27:34.719-04:00Progress on Nicola's Bluebird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These photos were taken late Friday afternoon. I finished the gold area and his head. I still have one small motif in the green area to complete. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly, most of the accent stitches have been done with the filament thread only, called Accentuate - used to be called Madeira Supertwist, it has some metal in the composition, giving it a sheen. I expected to use one strand of silk & one of filament. Every time I tried it I felt it was too heavy for what I was trying to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His legs are outlined with a couched #7 Tambour thread. I tried stem stitch in silk. I don't know why since I knew I wouldn't like it even before I tried it. Here's both options for comparison. A better choice might have been to straight stitch in silk. But, by then I could see this bird wanted to go Metallic on me so that's what I did.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Friday I've nearly completed all the accent stitches, which would have been the end. But an idea tugged at me the entire time I worked on this bird. I didn't think it was practical (because I'm so far away and not able to see the purse pattern) and wasn't sure Nicola would like it. Friday evening I decided to email Nicola about my idea. Her response came on Saturday morning. In the next day or two I'll share what transpired.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, I want to mention how much fun this project has been. I've thoroughly enjoyed breaking out of the mindset of using strictly historical threads. Not to mention the mixed media aspect which has challenged me to look at my embroidery differently - in an exciting new way that seems very aligned with the art world today. It led me to order two books that I discovered through Nicola. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Ideas-Goldwork-Tracy-Franklin/dp/1906388032/ref=la_B001KMJ3Y6_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368977362&sr=1-1" target="_blank">New Ideas in Goldwork by Tracy A. Franklin</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-Whitework-Tracy-Franklin/dp/0713489642/ref=la_B001KMJ3Y6_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368977362&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Contemporary Whitework by Tracy and Nicola Jarvis</a>. I can see that Tracy and Nicola's work will be influencing mine in future. Oh! the possibilities that have appeared on the horizon...</span></div>
Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-61597648751752038272013-04-26T17:52:00.002-04:002013-04-26T17:52:51.345-04:00The Bluebird's Sunflower<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on to the yellow section. I decided to work the sunflower "seeds" in Spiral Trellis. It's one of my favorite Elizabethan stitches. I also thought it would be different than the French knots which you'd expect to see. (These "seeds" are quite small and could be covered with French knots. I enlarged them somewhat in order to work in ST.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The right seed is done in Soie d'Alger; the left in 100/3. I don't care for Soie d'Alger thread because it's fuzzy and I lose clarity in the stitch, but it's what came in the thread pack. I tried the 100/3 from my own stash. The problem is the yellow isn't deep enough and I can't buy the brighter yellow in 100/3 in time for this project. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The seeds are so small (3/32" in diameter) that it's probably a moot point anyway. I can see the difference in clarity under magnification, as in these photos. But with the naked eye you really can't. It just irks me to stitch second-best seeds. The color is more important here - Love the way it pops.</span></div>
Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-54288835127015524122013-04-25T08:08:00.000-04:002013-04-26T17:53:26.019-04:00Nicola's Bluebird (continued)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I'm working the green section of the bird. I have tried both 1 strand of soie d'alger (on left) and 1 strand of Accentuate (on right). Both threads are by Au Ver a Some. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blue section you can see part of was done in speckling with one strand each of d'alger and Accentuate. It has great sparkle - almost looks like glitter, but you can't see it in the photo, unfortunately.</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-53446313123253885522013-04-17T21:38:00.000-04:002013-04-26T17:53:12.798-04:00Nicola Jarvis & May Morris @ William Morris Gallery, London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nicola was awarded Overall Winner of the WM Gallery's Inspired by Morris competition in 2010. Looking through her work I was especially drawn to her <a href="http://www.nicolajarvisstudio.com/art.html" target="_blank">birds</a> (scroll down on the link to see the Robin and Blackbird). When I mentioned that I thought her birds magical she decided to send me a Bluebird as my project. I couldn't wait for my package to arrive so I could see him. I wasn't disappointed - he's delightful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon opening the package I was both delighted and intimidated to discover that my Bluebird is painted on Dupioni Silk! It's pale olive or sage green in color - the beauty of the color just doesn't come through on my photos, unfortunately. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The color of the silk is such a perfect foil for the bird's colors that I can't imagine him on anything else. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've never stitched </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> silk before so this will be a new experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Included in the package are silk and metal threads and sparkly filament threads. The filament threads are also new for me, but so beautiful that I can't wait to use them. I can select from the threads provided or use something of my own and how I embellish my Bluebird is entirely up to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have about 6 weeks to complete this project and return it to England. I'll be blogging about my progress so stop back to see how I'm doing. When I'm finished embellishing my Bluebird he will be made into an evening bag for the exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best of all, after the exhibit closes my Bluebird will fly back to me! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I embroider because I have a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">deep need to create beauty. The act of embroidering is equally as meaningful to me as that which I am creating. From tools to threads, everything in my surroundings must minister to a feeling of loveliness, enriching my enjoyment of the experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To this end I've created many embroidery accoutrements that I've shared on this site previously.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At times this aestheticism has made me do things others would surely consider eccentric. As when the thread manufacturers began packaging threads in cellophane bags. -- What a clever move on their part. The crystal clarity of the bags made thread colors pop. -- </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I secretly added the bags to my stash. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I say secretly because I was somewhat sheepish about this small peculiarity. But not enough to stop. After selecting threads for a new project, I would place them in cellophane bags arranged with those embroidery tools to be used for the project. I would then admire them for a week or so before I began to stitch. A guilty but harmless pleasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shop had 2 bags. I bought both of them, planning to put my new project threads in them. The shop reordered. By that time I'd thought of other uses for them. I bought all of those but one - I didn't want to be greedy, after all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have noticed the ribbons on the zippers of my bags. I use a bit of some frippery that matches the project. It's a great way to use up those bits of opulent ribbons too small to do anything with, but too beautiful to discard. If you set aside the project for awhile you can also tie the color same ribbon on the slate frame so you'll know which threads go with the project at a glance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*They make great gift bags for gifts for your stitching friends, making the gift look that much more enchanting</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needlework Eye-Candy. I hope you find one or two in your Easter basket this year. (Don't worry, I've bought as many as I can use for the moment).</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-81391281528600467732013-02-28T21:48:00.002-05:002013-02-28T21:49:31.479-05:00Mary's Pomegranate & Peas Purse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I love when stitchers share their renditions of one of my designs. Recently Mary Martin posted on Facebook that she'd completed my Pom & Peas Purse. She was kind enough to share her photo's with me to post here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Italo Calvino's novel <i>If On a Winter's Night a Traveler</i> he posits the concept that the story told in a book is a combination of what the writer wrote and the reader read. Each reader brings a different lifetime of experiences to the book, so no reader finds the same story there. Calvino even goes so far as to say that the same reader finds a different story there each time he reads the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same goes for embroidery. E</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ach stitcher puts her / his spin on an embroidery design, making it theirs as well as the designer's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These photos show Mary's finished purse. The technique is blackwork surface embroidery. Shading of the motifs is created using Speckling stitch after they've been outlined in Outline or Stem stitch. The vine is worked in Plaited Braid. I really like the light, delicate feel of the finished piece </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">created by using a light touch on the shading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great job, Mary - It's beautiful! Thank you for sharing your work with everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary teaches embroidery through the EGA. She recently received her Teaching Certificate and is working towards a Master Craftsman. </span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-90399078926255898212013-02-21T22:23:00.002-05:002013-02-21T22:32:27.384-05:00Off the Linen (continued)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, I'd like to thank everyone who made suggestions after my last post about stitching a 3D petal. Thanks Karen, Rachel, Stitching with Kittens, Elmsley Rose and "Anonymous"! I really appreciated your input. Six heads are better than one, right? : ) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my second attempt I tried buttonhole stitch around the edge. This looked even worse than the first attempt. My kitten made off with that petal so I have no photo yet. I'm sure it will surface at some point so I can photograph it. The buttonhole edge, which is what secured the metal thread to the petal, sat away from the linen in an uncomplimentary way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4th attempt: I switched to white thread for the overcast. Still a tiny bit fuzzy in spots. More importantly I lost the visual impact of the colored edge. It's something I could fall back on if it becomes necessary.</span></div>
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-44047263054587205042013-02-16T08:41:00.000-05:002013-02-16T08:41:28.654-05:00A Gathering of Embroiderers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-1613183153062434002013-01-28T15:51:00.001-05:002013-01-28T15:51:21.697-05:00Tudor Rose - Off The Linen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I have an idea for a Tudor rose, done in blackwork, taken from the gown of a<a href="http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Eliza34.jpg" target="_blank"> 1590 portrait of Queen Elizabeth</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My idea is to take it "off the linen" and make it 3 dimensional, and able to be shaped. This petal was my first attempt. I filled in a bit of blackwork, just to give an idea of what I want to do with it. A failure, but not epic. See the bits of white linen showing through the red edge of the petal?</span></span><br />
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If the petal were filled in with DBH stitch, or similar, it would be easy. The challenge is that the center must be linen... and linen frays and it must be able to be shaped to imitate the curve of flower petals.</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-37175539903235727602012-12-09T17:43:00.000-05:002012-12-09T17:43:20.512-05:00DMC Features Baroque Embellishments On Their Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-10677957796434355292012-12-06T17:08:00.000-05:002012-12-06T17:08:01.050-05:00Elizabethan Holly Garland Available as PDF download<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Elizabethan Holly Garland is available as a PDF for download on etsy:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After receiving requests from those of you who already have the supplies in your STASH, I decided to make it available as a PDF download. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Instructions are clear, concise and filled with lots of large, gorgeous photos to help & inspire you.</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-47995474583071419752012-12-05T20:35:00.000-05:002012-12-05T20:38:46.109-05:00SAL For The Trevelyon Purse Ornament<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-62661628563399723842012-12-02T23:45:00.000-05:002012-12-02T23:54:23.840-05:00Holly Garland Kit Available on Etsy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The second leaf on the holly garland has been worked in Au Ver a Soie Perlee (#491). The button-hole edge around the leaf was worked in Gobelins #2125. <br />
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Someone asked me what I plan to do with the garland. One idea is to wrap it around the base of a tall candlestick, molded to appear as if it's climbing up the candlestick. Another use would be to wrap it around the handle of a basket. Start at the bottom of the basket handle and wrap it almost half way up the handle; just enough to add color, but not so much that it interferes with holding the basket. The garland could also be fashioned into a tiny wreath. Or couched onto a black velvet scarf for a unique accessory. The possibilities are nearly endless....<br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-85322840606722129192012-11-15T22:38:00.000-05:002012-11-15T22:46:20.321-05:00Elizabethan Holly Folly<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-30071628969288385032012-11-07T22:10:00.000-05:002012-11-08T18:05:39.839-05:00Inspirations Issue #76 to feature Winter Mistletoe Scarf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Australian embroidery magazine, Inspirations, will feature the design and instructions for my Winter Mistletoe Scarf in issue 76, to be released later this month.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This has been a very interesting year for me, full of new experiences & opportunities. Not only did I start a new job in a new field, but for the very first time I had an embroidery design published. I was barely done wrapping up the details on the first publication when I was contacted by Inspirations about the Mistletoe Scarf design. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I'm really excited to see the upcoming issue of Inspirations magazine. I believe all of you who follow Elizabethan embroidery will want to get their hands on a copy, if at all possible. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I have been corresponding with the lovely ladies at Inspirations for months. At the start of the process I mailed my scarf to them, along with any design notes, etc. (Inspirations writes the instructions for their featured projects in order to keep formatting consistent throughout their magazine.) Our discussions on my design began. I was tickled to find out that they were unaware of one of the fibers I used on the scarf - Gilt Sylke Twist! In researching the thread, they stumbled across the whole Plimoth Jacket project, of which they were also unaware. Of course they were very excited to read about the reproduction jacket. As a result of my having used GST threads on my scarf, this issue of Inspirations will include an article about the jacket project as well as my scarf design! How's that for serendipity? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Which leads me to wonder... if the next President of the United States was not only a woman, but an Embroiderer, maybe my world would be a better place.</span><br />
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Kimberly Servellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08429456479703363604noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465680991340085889.post-34658010666684058402012-07-31T13:52:00.000-04:002012-11-15T20:25:15.771-05:00Winter Issue of SANQ To Feature Trevelyon Christmas Ornament<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am pleased to be able to share with you that Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly will be publishing instructions for my Trevelyon Christmas Ornament (a miniature purse, featured on their cover) in their 2012 Winter Issue (#69), along with an article I wrote about Thomas Trevelyon. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel fortunate to have one of my designs featured in a magazine that I have followed since its inception. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It seems a good time, as well, to thank all of you who follow my embroidery. Your support & interest helped me to realize that I might have something worthwhile to add to our collective body of embroidery publications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last year I did a stint as Stage Manager in a local production of Shakespeare. It was an interesting and exciting experience. In a conversation with the Director she said "You shouldn't remake a piece unless you have something to add to it."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of course, she was speaking of theatre, but at the time I thought that the same could be said of designing. It's that aspect - adding something of myself to the design - that drives me to do it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In that spirit I reworked the Quaker Pinwheels, reproduced so charmingly by Erica Uten. I was utterly beguiled by the shape and diminutive nature of them. They were knitted as were the originals. Mine was to function as embroidery equipage, so it seemed more natural to embellish it with embroidery. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More crucially effecting my design was the fact that embroiderers use needles much more often than pins. On a pinwheel, the pins are stored by pushing them into the edges of the wheel. This is great for storage, but isn't practical as a resting place for needle/pin whilst using it. I needed to alter the piece in a way that provided both storage and holder for pins & needles.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Two felt wheels were cut using the same pattern used to cut the card backing. They were whipstitched together then placed in between the card and the needlework. I thought it might prove more difficult to lace the embroidery to the card because of the padding, but found it made no difference.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Erica instructs you to cut the wool strip, used for the spiral filling, to the same width as your ribbon. For my padded pinwheel, <u>the wool strip should be cut marginally narrower</u>. I cut mine about 1/16" narrower, giving me wiggle room to conceal the seam. (When the padded side is sewn to the felt spiral filling, the padding makes the stitches slightly longer. ) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do you ever take your stitching on the road (rambling)? On gorgeous spring or summer days I like to stitch in the sun - maybe pack an afternoon tea and blanket & head for the park, or somewhere more remote. I find I don't need nearly as much magnification to do fine needlework in the sunshine - a good thing since you can easily start a fire with a magnifying lens! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the shading (speckling) I used 1 strand of DMC Mouline in colors 799 & 800. I'd say 99% of the shading was done in 799, then I went back & filled in some of the darker areas with 800 just to give the shadow a bit more depth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Be sure to click on the items that state they have no image because they do have images once you open the item's details. There are several unusual coifs. You'll want to take the time to look closely at the motifs - some are quite quirky. So make a cup of tea & relax while you peruse.....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Here are the photos of the completed scarf that I promised. As I mentioned before, I wanted a scarf that was longer than 72" (the length of my pink linen material) so I added more fabric to each end using a decorative seam technique used in Elizabethan times (and probably long before that).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The green floss I had ordered finally arrived in the mail, allowing me to complete the fringes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I used a simple technique for the fringes. These were made with 6 stranded DMC floss in color 471 to match the embroidery in the seam. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I simply wound the skeins of floss around a credit card and cut along one edge of the card to get my lengths of floss, all the same length.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Next, I took each piece of floss, folded it in half, without separating out the strands. Using a fine crochet hook, I pulled the loop of floss through a hole in the bottom hem of the scarf, then passed the floss ends through the loop creating a fringe. I repeated this for every other hole in the hem.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You may recall a project I started for a class I was asked to teach at Hand Dyed Fibers. The project was a Tudor rose on a pinwheel. Vikki, of Hand Dyed Fibers, cancelled the needlework conference she had planned for this year, so the class hasn't come to fruition yet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I decided to re-work the rose pattern and embroider it in blue on white. I will be making a pinwheel like the one pictured on the cover of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tokens-Love-Pinballs-Erica-Uten/dp/0955208637/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337904801&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Erica Uten's book</a>. Later I plan to make a matching sweet bag with a peony on it, and possibly some other embroidery accoutrements. All the pieces will feature posies worked in Speckling technique.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here you see the design transferred on to 50ct white Kingston linen, ready to embroider. If you would like to stitch this rose with me, here's my <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByCH-iHXWLbiUl9UZm9PTUZwc0E/edit" target="_blank">PDF Pattern</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I re-worked the pattern, I made it like the Tudor rose that appears in this <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16672/printed-linen/" target="_blank">early 17th century block printed linen at the V&A Museum</a>, Acc No. T.174B-1931. I love the idea that 400 years ago someone printed this rose on linen for embroidery and today, I can transfer that same pattern on to linen and embroider it! How's that for connecting with embroiderers of the past?!</span><br />
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