At each monthly meeting in the 2016 - 2017 year you will be provided with the instructions and the designs you will need to complete your very own Armchair Caddy complete with scissor catch!
May
The final step! We would like to thank everyone who participated in this years project! can't wait to see all the finished caddies next fall!
April
This month we are finishing the stitching the embroidery!
There was a miss-print in the counted embroidery pattern handed out in the guild. If doing the Hummingbird Design and using the handout from guild please move the sides in four stitches towards the centre. Use your discretion some may need to move in more depending on how the pattern was drawn.
The charts below are the updated edition including all correction.
March
For this month please reference the centre/placement of the rectangle both Carol's and Meagan's design.
The Embroidery
For the Counted Embroidery
January
This month's is a small one so please do not stress about having November's done or not.
The Embroidery
Carol has designed beautiful fruit tree for your scissor pocket. Expanding on what we have already learned. For the Fruit she suggests that you use:
whipped spider web
woven wheel
bullion knot rose (see image above for instructions)
bead
Leaves are to be worked in lazy daisy stitch and the trunk is worked in stem stitch.
For the Counted Embroidery
It is recommended that you locate the relative centre of the triangle and work the design out from there. Meagan has designed two patterns that will work with in the scissor pocket, please choose the design you like best. If working the blackwork design, you can choose between using one strand of floss or two strands, however for either choice you will work over two threads.
One strand of floss over two threads
Two over Two Back in one strand
Two stands of floss over two threads
November
The stitching has begun, this month you wil recieve the front pocket pattern piece.
The Embroidery
To start trace the pattern onto your fabric with your favourite tracing implement. Remember to center the design in your fabric leaving around 1/4 inch spacing from the edge of the pattern piece. Carol recommends that you stitch with a size 8 embroidery needle and two strands of floss.
Blanket Stitch in the round
Long Straight Stitch
Lazy Daisys (Detached Chain) with French Knot Center
Each flower consists of eight straight stitches and a stem stitch for the stem of each flower
Fence is worked in stem stitch
Small gatherings of french knots
Bullin Stitches surround in elonated lazy daisy stitch
Stems are worked in stem stitch. Work the flowers in blanket stitch 2-3 stitches a blosom (Edge of blanket stitch facing away from the stem)
Cone Flowers Five straight stitches worked to a center point. Top with a french knot (could be done in darker colour). Stem stitch and lazy daisy for the leaves and plant base.
Lazy Daisy worked 3+ stitches a row for five rows increasing in size each row down. Then work leaves in lazy daisy as well
Work trunk of tree in stem stitch
Work the Tree's leaves in either blanket stitch or lazy daisy
Optional work birds in fly stitch
The Counted Embroidery
To work the counted embroidery it is recommend that you start with the flower. For placement counting up from the center bottom the base of the flower starts at 12 stitches or 24 threads. The pattern is worked two over two and thread choices are up to you. Some people are working the front pocket in all one colour, while others have pulled five or six colours that compliment their fabrics.
October
The project begins, at the meeting you should have received a thread and fabric (12x15) as well as the paper pattern for this project.
Every member of the guild is entitled to a piece of fabric and thread even if you have chosen not to participate in the project (please contact Kim at [email protected] for more information).
For the next meeting you will need to have marked in all the pattern pieces on your fabric. Please Reference the images below for pattern placement.
September
During the September meeting Carol presented to the guild the design concept for the caddy and asked for members to sign up for either an embroidery piece designed by her or a counted embroidery designed by Kim.
Members were asked to bring two fat quarters to the October meeting