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First Finish of the New Year!

February 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Bargello, New Needlepoint

Since we’ve been going on 8 days without any sun shine, I decided to go ahead and photograph my newest finish with crappy in door light and be done with it!

I know it is probably wrong to whine about the weather when half the county is getting hammered with unprecedented amounts of snow but I am DONE.  I’m tired of it being cold.  I’m tired of it being wet.  I’m tired of the snow and the ice and the cold.  Have I told you I’m tired of being cold?

Anyway.  I kind of went off there for a moment.

I stitched this stunning piece for Marianne at NewNeedlepoint.

It is a lovely bargello piece.  Marianne picked the colors and threads and I stitched it on (I think) 14hpi canvas.  As soon as Marianne gets settled after her recent move, I’ll send it back to her for finishing as one of her samples.

I’d never done (except as part of a sampler once) any bargello.  It was fun.  Very zen like.  Not hard at all. And the colors Marianne picked were stunning!  I think this would make a lovely book cover for an address book, or calendar (I know, I’m totally inconsistent.  I love technology but I carry my calender in my purse and write my appointments in by hand.) Or it’s a lovely size for a sofa pillow.  I don’t know what Marianne’s got in mind but it’s got a lot of possibilities.

If you’ve not ever tried any bargello, look at what Marianne can set you up with.  There are some great pieces there!

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7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Pat // Feb 7, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Very nice! Bargello is a lot of fun to work! You can get addicted!

  • 2 Lisa H // Feb 7, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    Very pretty! :)

  • 3 frontrangestitcher // Feb 7, 2010 at 1:23 pm

    What a sweetie you are to stitch this fun piece for a friend. You did a great job and the colors are fun and vibrant too. I love bargello and need to put a project on my stitching queue for this year. Looking forward to seeing what you’re stitching next.

  • 4 LadyDoc // Feb 7, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Beautiful stitching!

    Yes, I too have been on the Internet for more than 15 years, have a blog, am on Facebook, have an iphone, use a DVR- I’m pretty good with the techno stuff. But my planner??? Yup- still a Dayrunner that I carry in my bag and write in by hand. Nothing else feels right.

  • 5 Judy Harper // Feb 11, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Bargello is very “zen” – as were the basketweave pillows we used to do in the 70′s before decorative stitches took over. Relaxing hobby and beautiful home accessories. You did a great job on this.

  • 6 Cynthia // Feb 13, 2010 at 7:33 pm

    Hi Margaret,

    Love Bargello! Made quite a few pieces years ago and enjoy stitching the patterns still. :-)

    By the way, if you want, I’ll ship you some of our snow so you can see what you are missing. Here in Maryland we are setting snow fall records going back over one hundred years! LOL!!!

    Cynthia
    Windy Meadow

  • 7 marianne // Feb 19, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    WOW! Margaret has done me proud and then some. Fabulous stitching. WOW!

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