Rip, rip, rip.... I have been ripping up the woollen yarn of my Tvistsöm embroidery cushion and the
Glowing Stars
project can now R.I.P. (Rest In Peace)
I could for my life not make the pattern fit, the triangles and the stars did not meet where they were supposed to.
Furthermore I noticed some flaws; I had worked some of the crosses with the long arm from left to right and the others from right to left.
When I first learned the Tvistsöm stitches, it was such a delight to work the Sunday Stitch lessons and the samplers and I got inspired to start on the cushion.
Work on the cushion was OK until I started to add a few stitches here and there in different colours. It slowed down the process and I just got lost in the pattern.
Tvistsöm is SO different from ordinary Cross Stitch. There one stitch is a square, in Tvistsöm one stitch is a parallelogram (like an italic rectangle). Keeping track of the stitches on the graph pattern was difficult.
So I ripped up every stitch and fumed at the waste of yarn and time as I laid the Glowing Stars to R.I.P.
I will start all over again but with a pattern of blocks of colour. Hopefully I will enjoy it better and the result will be acceptable.
Circles Challenge
I have finished the three last blocks.
The next step will be to assemble the blocks before I can add the embroidery.
Freeform Embroidery
Because I spent so much time on ripping up the cushion embroidery, I have not had time to add more than two stitches on the Freeform Embroidery: Woven Cross and Chinese Cross.
