{"id":9180,"date":"2020-03-22T11:09:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2020-03-23T05:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:47:28","slug":"joining-stitch-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/joining-stitch-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining Stitch 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back to my joining sampler after some disruption. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic? I’m not sure. Maybe due to a dyeing workshop and its aftermath. Or due to finishing my panel for the 25 Million Stitches project. Or some general re-evaluation and reflection. Or due to the online weaving workshop I started on impulse. Always many factors.<\/p>\n

So today I finished stitching all the William Morris squares together. A good milestone. They looked beautiful in a heap. The variegated sewing thread Joanne V. gave me looked great with the colors of the prints.<\/p>\n

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Then I really got frustrated trying to stitch an acceptable Mountmellick stitch. I couldn’t follow the explanation in Joinings, Edges, and Trims<\/em>. I looked it up on YouTube. I followed Mary Corbet<\/a>‘s video. The results looked terrible so I unpicked it. Diagnosed the problem as possibly coming from the single strand of thread I was using. Tried again with a double strand and produced an acceptable if not beautiful join.<\/p>\n

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My complaints:<\/p>\n

It’s very hard to keep the stitches even.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t decide how best to hold the work and kept flipping it around.<\/p>\n

It’s one-sided. It doesn’t fold well. It doesn’t show on the back at all.<\/p>\n

And I don’t think my thread choice was right, even after doubling.<\/p>\n

But this is what a sampler is for, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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