Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Counted Thread Experimentation


I have been slowly working on a band for the Counted Thread Band Sampler Round Robin that I am in. This is Mandy's sampler & before this sampler first arrived, I had ideas as to what I was going to do, then when it arrived I felt that what I had planned would not fit in well. It took me a while to get started & I am just letting the sampler tell me what it needs. The first thing was colour, somehow I needed to bring all the colours together. So I searched my threads and pulled out all the colours that were already in the sampler, then made a decision as to which ones I would use. I settled on a yellow, a hand dyed orange, and some greens. I felt these colours whould not only work together in a band, but help to reflect the colours already present elsewhere in the sampler. I haven't finished yet, I still need to work more eyelets, and then I think the band will tell me it still needs something else. Time will tell. I'll post a pic of the whole thing when my section is finished.

2 comments:

MargB said...

This is beautiful work Jenny - I am a great fan of eyelets and I really like your row of whole and half ones - also the colours you have chosen are delightful and so subtle.

laura_rose said...

What a great project. I have had my arm twisited into a hardanger workshop at our lace group in May...will see how I go :)