Desire: All done and ready for hanging

Here is Desire all ready for framing :-)

I really love it.

Desire: Finishing process

This is the beginning of my finishing process. I want to be able to hang it on my wall, so am making a fabric frame for it.

This is how Susan Portra had hers finished, as an ornament.

Photo of Desire all stitched. Next photo will be of Desire ready to put on my wall.

Desire: A Susan Portra design

I don't know if you all remember, but I had a little problem with this project as I could not find the cabochons with rimsets that I needed to finish the project. Pat had sent me a few things that I thought could work (thank you Pat for those, I will keep them for later use), but after trying them, I realized that I would much rather do something else to replace the missing cabochons.
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Once I put behind me the notion that I absolutely needed some cabochons for this project, I started concentrating on what else I could do instead and decided to do some Jessicas with some golden metallic thread and then filled the inside with some red metallic threads.
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After I did that, I decided that I really did not want to put any bugle beads now, so used some gold metallic threads and made a bargello row instead.
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I am happy with the outcome. It is different from the one Susan did, but still looks good.
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All that remains now is to do the finishing. That will have to wait a little bit as I have other things to stitch first.
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For the sake of comparison, I have added below a photo of what the original looks like.


I would like to finish stitching the little Christmas stocking, but not so crazy about the idea of working with all those beads though :-(
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Pierrette =^..^=

Desire - stitching part done and hunting for cabochons with rim sets starts in earnest

I have now completed the stitching part of Desire, #13 of Susan Portra's Cabochon Series by adding the couching stitches to the long long tramé stitches and need to concentrate on finding the five 10mm cabochons with golden rim sets to attach to the canvas. I will also have to dig and see if I can find what appears to be 37 golden bugle beads. I know that I have some, but not sure that I have that many, but those can be found easily enough. What I am really surprised about is how difficult, if not impossible, to find the golden 10mm rim sets to attach to the canvas for the cabochons. I have been looking on different web sites and some seem to have the cabochons, but no rim sets in sight. Some designers use them so they have to be available somewhere, the question is where exactly. If I ever find some I will have to purchase a big quantity of them as I don't want to have to go hunting for them again and they really look lovely on a project and make a statement.

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I must be one of the worst person to try to find something on the web as I never seem to find anything and my friend Terry finds everything she is looking for and then some, so Terry took pity on me and offered to have a look for me. Sure hope she is more successful than I have been so far.

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It has been a long time since I have worked a needlepoint project that is mostly beads, but I have just the one next to me right now. It is a mini stocking called Patches of Snow, all white and gold, a Kaitlyn Marie Designs. I am thinking about this coming Christmas and this sure would look nice for my tree. I really need to work on some smaller projects as I have been involved with bigger ones lately and sure need a break. Instant gratification or almost :-)

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Time to have a look at those bugle beads and keep dreaming about cabochons with rim sets :-)

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Pierrette =^..^=

Desire: Moving along

Now, it is starting to look like Susan Portra's finished ornament. Still a bit more work to do like some couching to add on the long tramé stitches and the bugle beads and of course the hard to find 5 cabochons with rimsets.

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Am still wondering about the finishing that has been done on it as to what it is exactly. I know that I can probably do it if I can only get a clear picture in my mind as to what it is. I will probably have to sleep on it but there is no rush before the ornament is all completed and for that I need to find those cabochons with rimsets or substitute them with some other stitches. If someone who is reading this entry have some ideas as to where I can find them, please let me know. I can be easily contacted at LovetoStitch99@comcast.net

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Pierrette =^..^=

I stitched two additional rows last evening, took a photo and then got distracted and never added to my blog.

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So far on this project, I have used Fyre Werks on the first row (gold), Crystal Rays (the larger one with reddish colors), Fyre Werks in black for the second and fourth rows and Neon Rays for the last and fifth row (wine color).

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This morning have added a sixth row using some DMC Perle #5 in red (not in the photo).

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Should be able to finish it today, except for the cabochons with rimsets which I don't have and will see if I can find some gold bugle beads all the same size. I think I may have some but have not yet looked for them.

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I have been looking at the finishing on the photo and been wondering how exactly it was done. There seems to be some gold thread laced somehow. It looks very good, just not sure how it has been done as I can't see enough of it :-(

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Pierrette =^..^=

Desire: A Susan Portra Cabochon Series design

I felt that I needed a bit of a change and remembered this lovely and much smaller project that I had purchased on Ebay some time ago.
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I have always loved Bargello as whenever I work on such pieces it is so easy for me to just loose myself, as I just want to do one more row, oh, just one more. I think it has that effect on so many of us.
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This is a photo of the bit I had the time to stitch this morning. It is a Susan Portra design, which she made for Rainbow Gallery in 1993 (publication date). The design is called "Desire" and is #13 of her Cabochon Series. When I saw it on Ebay, I fell in love with it and was lucky enough to win it, which is far from always beeing the case as I have often been outbid by others. I have no idea what the others of the series look like as have never seen them.
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It is always a bit difficult to gather the supply for projects that have been created a long time ago and that is the case for this one too. I was fortunate enough for someone to send me the Crystal Rays thread as it is not produced anymore.
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I do not have the cabochon required for this project. No indication as to the size either could be found on the chart, so will have to stitch enough of it to get some idea of the dimension needed. It seems that a color like Ruby might look very nice with probably a gold rimset, if I can put my hands on both.

This is the photo that is on the cover of the pamphlet. Just so pretty :-)

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Need to go now to stitch just one more row (big grin).

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Pierrette =^..^=

The Iris

The Iris is a stylized interpretation designed by Susan Portra.

This is one of my first needlepoint project made, which I also enjoyed stitching it tremendously because of the different stitches used. It was just a lot of fun to see the Iris come to life under my eyes.

Pierrette =^..^=
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