Needlepoint

I finished Marilyn Owen's Ornament Quartet, one of the projects in the ANG Chapter Project book.  It was the education program for a Cyberpointers meeting.  I even finished the individual pieces as ornaments.

 I also finished all of the lesson 1 stitching for Terry Dryden's Moroccan Sands, offered as a Cyberworkshop through ANG.  I love the colors in this piece and I like working on counted geometric designs.

Finally, I continue to work on my kimono.  It was involved in an accident with a cup of coffee and a cat, but none of the stitched areas were damaged.  Here it is half done.  I love the way that the stitch textures and colors work together and in the individual sections.  Many of them look like brocades or patterned fabrics.

John Waddell Kimono part 3

I have completed Part 3 of the Kimono.  I am not sure if I am happy with two dark green patches next to each other and there is a mistake in the compensation on one of them.  I didn't want to fix it until I have stitched part 4 and see how the two dark sections fit in with the rest.  Other than that, this project is fantastic and a lot of fun to stitch.

John Waddell Kimono Part 2

I have finished sections 14 through 26 of John Waddell's Kimono.  The colors continue to come together.  I have about ten threads left that I have not used yet; they are different shades of colors that already appear on the kimono.  I have included a photo of the kimono so far and a picture of the sections from the second lesson.

Kimono sections 1 to 13

I am working on a needlepoint Kimono that was originally designed by Maggie Lane.  John Waddell is offering a colorful version as a course through the Shining Needle Society.  Although I really want to make one that is black, red and gold on black canvas with the color spacing like the one Teresa Frank entered in the exhibit at the 2004 ANG Seminar in Reno.  I would like to use red in place of the blue and black for the cream portions, but I have been seduced by all of the colors that everyone is posting.  So I selected colors from my stash:

The threads include two colors of Caron waterlilies, a couple of skeins of Walsh silk and wool, some Needle Necessities, quite a few Gumnuts "buds", some stranded metalics, a couple of rayon threads, and some other stranded cottons.  I added DMC to expand the range for each of the main colors and to give me more stranded fibers to work with.  Using John's random color selection method, I stitched the first 13 sections of the Kimono:

I am delighted with the results.