The Let
People Choose SAL is hosted by Serendipitous Stitching.
Time again
for Let People Choose SAL, organised by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching each
month. Every month there is a theme proposed, what makes even more funny
participate as you not only stitch but also look for the pattern you want to
stitch. This month Theme is Speciality Stitches. I think I was quite lucky when
I decided to buy April’s issue of the magazine Just Cross Stitch. As it is the
Easter special issue they proposed some Easter designs. I quickly fell in love
with one of the designs as it was Ummm……...beautiful? ……….. I can’t really find
a word to describe it. It is an Easter egg make using only special stitches and
they proposed different options: green, blue and pink. Ok, I would like to make
all or even more colours, but for the first one I chose green. I used 28 count
Lugana fabric in cream and the call for DMC threads for the green egg.
The egg is designed by Charlotte Smyth of Charlotte's Web Needlework and it is called A Stitcher's Egg.
The variety
of stitches used to make this eggs are the following (if you see the egg
picture I am starting the stitches list from top to bottom):
- Elongated Smyrna Cross Stitch
- Mosaic Stitch
- Scotch and Reverse Scotch Stitch
- Algerian Eye Stitch
- Triangle Variation Stitch
- Rice Stitch
- Long Arm Cross Stitch
- Woven Cross Stitch
- Montenegrin Stitch
I finished
it in the obvious egg shape, using cream back fabric and cardboard to make the
whole harder and I put green cord all around which not only help me to hang
somewhere but also is very decorative and hide the two part join edges. Let’s
see if I can make the other colours before Easter.
