Blackwork borders and corners

Following up on adding blackwork to the spot sampler, I thought I’d post some of the simple patterns I doodled for the lesson on blackwork. The first one here is a leafy corner, just in time for autumn (on this side of the world). Of course, if you imagine the leaves green, it could also ...

Enjoy :) Please click image to enlarge Corner&Edge Pattern

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Finished up a couple of Blackwork bookmarks in July. We spent a couple of days at my In-Law's cabin on a lake. If I wasn't helping with meals or reading, I was stitching under the trees. It was such a relaxing couple of days. The basic pattern, for the bookmark above, is from my Blackwork Made Easy Book by Leslie Wilkins. The other bookmark shown below was a pattern I found on Pinterest. They just need a nice little backing and then will be put into my Bible. That's all for today. Until…

Read "Shelly's Blackwork Borders Vol. 1" by Michelle Comfort available from Rakuten Kobo. This Volume is my 3rd in a series of Blackwork embroidery, easy - good for beginners, border numbers 1 to 30. I have cre...

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns...

The past couple of weeks I've been stitiching away at a little flower medallion pattern that I found on Pinterest. I was going to make a little bookmark out of it. I started with the boarder first, which should've been left for last. Eventually, I made a mistake in the second medallion of flowers. I was going a bit off pattern, and messed it up in a big way. I will have to rip out the second medallion and repeat the first one, which is what I should've done in the first place. The boarder…