I’ve started work on Luzine Happel’s left-handed Schwalm project. I’ve never worked with a project that has the pattern applied with an iron-on transfer before. I’m surprised at how dark it is, and how much the colour of the transfer transfers to the thread as I stitch. I’m used to my whitework being white! The instructions say that all will be well at the end when it has been soaked and then boiled to billy-o, but in the mean time, its not very white!<\/p>\n
My other main thought at this stage is that I have a hunch (and I could be wrong!) that Schwalm embroidery fell prey to the worldwide discontinuation of Coton a broder No 12. (Oh, unhappy day!) Most of the shapes have to be outlined in coral knot stitch. The thread I have been provided for this part of the project is Coton a broder 16. <\/p>\n
As I stitch, it just feels a bit thin for the coral knot stitch. My feeling is that if you were going to work a knotted outline, you’d want it to *look* knotty. I suspect that in the past, it would have used No 12 broder cotton, which is a bit thicker than No 16, and therefore would create more pronounced knots. I will ask Luzine about this. I’m intrigued.<\/p>\n
I haven’t done much on the project yet, but I’m certainly enjoying it. I’m just doing a little bit each day. That will get it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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