FIRST LIGHT - Pending Release 3-25-11

First Light -  
size 109x109 was designed as a  companion piece to our much larger  “Creation”. The model is worked with 1  strand of floss over 1 thread of 28 count light khaki Jobelan.  


Stitch types are full, half, Algerian Eye, a single Border Flower, and fan stitches which are created with simple straight lines.  It is charted in DMC for easy translation into the floss of your choice. 

First Light is ideal for cross stitch or needlepoint and over 1 thread of fabric, it becomes a true miniature - ornament size.   The design has instructions for stitching over 2, which allows more detail to be worked into the lettering.  If you are working this over 1 thread of fabric, ignore the fractional stitches – they are not needed and the alphabet will be just as lovely. A full alphabet is included for personalizing your work.  First Light would be a meaningful Easter gift, with very special symbolism.  This design in PDF is available for immediate download  Etsy.com-TemptingTangles

Panoply of Peacocks WIP

Just a wee beginning of Panoply of Peacocks. I thought I would stitch both in  Crescent Colours silk and cotton - one for me and one for my daughter.  The colors are a little different between the two sets of flosses, naturally so that will be an interesting comparison.  I'm anxious to see the Dinky Dyes silks as well and find a set of colors that give that same peacock look. 

I had a certain idea for the colors until I researched what peacocks actually look like up close!  There is a lot of green!  I cut back on the green since the teals are one of my favorite colors...

I am stitching this on 27 count white Linda, pending some pearl grey lugana for the other one.  This design can be stitched over 1 or 2 as desired.  The chart tells you how to accomplish that.  Since my walls are getting VERY full, I am more prone to smaller pieces now, unless as my husband suggested, I start decorating the ceiling!

--Deb

The Only Gift

The Only Gift

American philosopher, poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) offered this thoughtful statement in his Essay, “Gifts”.  This seemingly simple statement is in fact, a statement of great insight and depth of meaning.  A gift of oneself is the most beautiful and precious of all offerings.

  Size 231x187, full crosses and straight stitch.   Purchase information

Quaker Rocky Road

A Quaker Confection is on the menu! Purchase information here

Quaker Rocky Road - size  330x260

Wikipedia relates some fascinating information which inspired my design. “The world's first commercial ice cream factory was opened in Baltimore, Maryland in 1851, by Jacob Fussell,  a Quaker dairy farmer.  An unstable demand for his milk led him to mass produce ice cream which allowed this previously expensive concoction to be offered at prices everyone could afford. He opened ice cream parlors from Maryland to Texas, later selling his business to Borden.”  A big bowl of Rocky Road ice cream just may have been on the menu!

Quaker Rocky Road is composed of full crosses, back stitches and a single eyelet in tones of chocolate and marshmallow, with a few nut and berry tones shades tossed in for variety.  The chocolate chunks are stitched in the various browns, so that the motifs formed by the unstitched white linen areas the look of Assisi embroidery.

Back stitched Blackwork style filigree bands, border, various motifs in chocolate and pistachio reminds us of those dainty little ice cream wafers, a plaid "shortbread cookie" border completes the look.  The design reads “Chocolate Smooths the Rocky Road of Life”.  Isn’t that the truth?

Incidentally,  Smooths and Smoothes are both correct spellings!
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Panoply of Posies - A Quaker motif sampler with a history

Panoply of Posies    size 250 x 250  - A garden delights in Quaker style motifs with a history, this design has been inspired by collections of antique geometric motifs gathered a century ago from needlework found in rural cottage households in Switzerland. 

These beautiful floral figures are reminiscent of wild flowers, ferns, herbs and grasses that blanket the meadows and hills of the rural landscape.  Model is stitched on Zweigart's light khaki davosa.  Suggested are Crescent Colors hand-dyed silks:  Baguette, Harvest and Mer Blue.  

                    

Panoply of Posies will soon be available in your local LNS through Hoffman Distributing. 

These attractive accessories use Panoply of Posies motifs

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The Creation Sampler-

Creation - size 286 x 240 

This amazing piece was stitched on 26 count raw linen by the designer and then almost a year later, painstakingly charted from the finished work.  Creation stirs both imagination and emotions with its swirling palette of storm cloud and sunrise colors.

This inspiring work evokes the wondrous drama of the words in Genesis, stitch painting the introduction to the  Biblical story of Creation

There are several specialty stitches in this piece with excellent illustrations and instructions to aid the stitcher in recreating them.  Charted in DMC.

The Creation sampler -a Tempting Tangles original

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