December 19, 2024 2:05 pm
I report the finish on my RESIST sampler. Completed, signed and dated.
Don’t worry about that dot on the bottom margin – that’s just fluff I neglected to brush off prior to the photo. The message is dead serious, but there are some silly bits in it. Like the dragon heads that parade across the top. The eyes in the original are empty – no pupils. But I put some in on this strip, and got several emotions when I did. My dragon heads look angry, attentive, contemplative, attentive, and bored. And more. Just a whim.
I am also pleased with the Pegasus strip – doodled up just for this piece. It will be included in my forthcoming Ensamplario Atlantio Volume III (EnsAtl3). No timeline yet for that release. Here are the sources for all fifteen bands, top to bottom.
Now RESIST joins the three fangirl samplers I have completed, celebrating the science fiction works of my Resident Male. That’s a lot of stitching since June, shown here on my Wall of Shame, where all my finished but not yet framed works live.
What’s next? Probably another in the PERSIST-RESIST grouping. ASSIST will be longer than RESIST. Also on a high count not-so-evenweave linen remnant. As you can see, the prep step of hemming has started.
I’m torn about colors and threads. And I have to calculate the thread count of this scrap piece. I have a feeling that it’s a bit more skew than the other four, and probably a skosh coarser than RESIST. I have some silks in various colors that might work on it, doubled in happy polychromatic chaos. Or I might do it all in deep red, possibly with a spot of a shiny black for emphasis.
As to what to put on it, I’m also contemplating options. The word, for sure. Possibly some voided bits or heavy foreground long-armed cross stitch strapwork bands (I haven’t done much of that recently). Or maybe I’ll work in some tiles of fills. But not worked inside freehand drawn shapes – just in geometrics. I have LOTS of fills begging to be taken out to play, some of which I came up with on the fly for the Unstitched Coif project. Since that’s off at the V&A, it seems proper that I stitch them up on something I can look at and enjoy here at home.
Stay tuned for more stitchy mischief.
Posted by kbsalazar
Categories: Blackwork Sampler - Doodle, Uncategorized
Tags: blackwork, counted thread embroidery, sampler
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Stunning! I like your selective use of the neon thread. All strength to your needle!
By Elaine on December 19, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Love the little kitties in the sampler. I wonder if in 100 years people will know the message and reason for this work?
You really need a new name for the wall – the stitching hung there, even the unfinished, are certainly not in the “shame” category. What about Wall of Waiting?
By JustGail on December 22, 2024 at 8:54 am
I realize that folk don’t have the same sense of hyperbolic and ironic humor that I do, and several have written to me, strenuously objecting to the “Wall of Shame” name (much more stridently than JustGail;s very warm and friendly note) – but I am not inclined to change it. The name helps spur me to take action, however slowly, to address these ready-to-display pieces and WIPs.
I also have a Chest of Knitting Horrors(tm) where doomed and seriously flawed knit and crocheted efforts go to sit prior to being reduced back into ready-to-rework yarn.
By kbsalazar on December 26, 2024 at 11:32 am