Sunday was the first lesson of the Brown Bunny class featuring this adorable Strictly Christmas canvas. In the first lesson we stitched the bunny. He’s super easy in Basketweave with just a little bit of Ming Stitch for his belly. All stitched in Soie d’Alger with a little Fuzzy Stuff for his tail. The tail is big fluffy Colonial Knots. If you need a refresher on how to work a Colonial Knot hop on over to our YouTube page. Here’s the link.
We also stitched the large area of snow under the bunny complete with all the shadows. It’s a laid filling stitch. If you know me, you know I love laid filling stitches. They go fast and allow the pretty painted colors to show through giving us more depth and dimension. This one is a special one. The stitch was designed to follow the angle of the bunny leaping across the canvas.
To work a laid filling stitch you start with a tramé of threads across your canvas. They can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal depending upon the design. They are always consistently spaced. Here they are in every other channel, worked horizontally across the area. It is not necessary to wrap the back of your canvas with your stitching thread. Start and stop your stitches when you run into a flower or the bunny. There’s no good spot to secure your threads so make sure your thread is long enough to get you where you are going.
My stitches are all secured in the white border no more than 2 canvas threads from the painted edge of the design.
Once the first step of the bunny is complete work the second layer of the stitch. These are the diagonal stitches. They are not on a 45 degree angle, why? because the angle of the stitch should follow the angle of the movement in the bunny! Easy magic.
More stitching shenanigans to come. Lesson two of the Brown Bunny is scheduled for October 13th. We have canvases and threads available if you would like to join the fun. Here’s the link.
Monthly Club News
We just released a new monthly club. These are the Retro Monsters by Sandra Vargas. Kimberly Roberts wrote the stitchguides and let me say the thread painting brings their faces to life! It’s not to late to sign up. Well, technically, it’s never too late to sign up but you get the idea. The first canvas with stitchguide will ship next month along with the complete thread kit if you select that option. The houses and skeleton are also available if you would like to recreate our display. The trees are from amazon. Here’s the link to join the club.
In other news, the SALE section of the website is full of Lots and Lots of canvases marked down. Rainbow Gallery Splendor is also on sale 30% off. Happy Shopping!
xo
ruth
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