Felt Like Learning Bargello Embroidery This Week
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I always love trying out different forms of needlework, so this week, we're exploring bargello!
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I do not need a new craft.
I do NOT need a new craft.
I do not NEED a new craft
I DO NOT NEED A NEW CRAFT.
Damn it, I've got a new craft. Now I'm off to get new supplies...
Unless... 👀
Does that work, if it does I need to work on it.
Me too
But.....
Same, no use fighting it or attempting to reason your way out😂😂😂💚💚💚
Stopping in the middle to let you know (you probably already do by now) the numbers are the number of holes in an inch. That's why the bigger the number the smaller the holes and the opposite. 7 holes to the inch verses 14 holes to the inch. Love the video so far! Big Hugs
Was coming down here to say this, but I think it's stitches per inch, instead of holes per inch. 14 stitches would use 15 holes.
Having worked in a store, many years ago, which sold needlework supplies, I learned that the numbers refer to the threads/inch in the weave of the canvas or embroidery fabric That was part of their description on the price tags. I'm not in the USA though.
Beads work the same way.
@@janebarnes4449 THIS! Every woven material has 'thread count' which means exactly that, how many threads there are in a cm of fabric. I ask this when buying bed linens online to not get something you can poke your finger through. Also this explains why Egyptian cotton is so expensive - it has absolutely insane thread count :-P
like a sandpaper.
I designed a four way Bargello pincushion, that comes up at 3” square. I then upsized it (! 😂) to 12” square for a miniature quilt, with each patch measuring 1/2” x 1/8”. It got Highly Commended at the Festival of Quilts (UK) and 1st prize at the Great Northern Quilt Show (Yorkshire).
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!
I haven't gotten far into the video, but when you said 8 way bargello I had to ask my mum, who has done a lot of bargello if she had done eight way and whilst she hasn't her eyes lit up and I think I have created a new monster LOL she is apparently teaching a class on Bargello later in the year and something tells me she will have worked out eight way by then LMAO
I know you said it's great for kids, I've always recommended this for older people (I work in geriatrics). Most older women sewed or quilted but their hands can't do such fine work anymore, this stuff is great for them, bigger holes and I tell them to use yarn! Plastic needles for hiding yarn in a crochet or knitting project works great!!
If you've got anyone that loved cross-stitch, scaling up to monks cloth and using the full embroidery floss strand instead of separating it works great. The tapestry frames are a little easier on arthritis hands than the hoops too.
Bargello quilting lends itself to the current precuts that are trendy in quilting. you can buy a jelly roll ( 42 to 44 strips 2.5 inch by width of fabric (usually 44 inches) ) and sew those strips together into a stripey fabric. then you can cut the fabric to various widths, and step them up and down by one stripe. it looks incredibly hard, and so fast. it's magic.
My grandma did a few of these style quilts when I was a child, and I was mesmerized by how fast she could put a quilt top like this together.
My mother-in-law makes Bargello quilts and they are gorgeous. My favorite is the heart Bargello.
I thought I'd come away from this video with a burning desire to learn a new kind of embroidery. Instead I'm looking speculatively at my espresso machine and my food processor ...
😅😂
I think my favorite part of this video is the daily chaos coffee check ins
I too enjoyed.
So fun words, when you use that style of vase for a beverage, typically to serve it, the vase is called a carafe.
I thought the same. But also: does carafe usually mean a different kind of beverage holder in American - with a lid and handle and vacuum insulation, maybe?
I once served punch in an actual flower vase :-P was the only thing big enough with mouth wide enough for the ladle.....
I kept looking at it and thinking "Isn't that a wine carafe?"
@@joelledurben3799 yep, us yanks use carafe for both the vase-style ones (usually for water, sometimes juice) and the ones with a handle (most often for coffee) with thermal insulation, or glass with black or orange handles you see in diners to distinguish decaf.
My non-technical names for background work is "living scenery". I do historical re-enacting so I've been recruited for a few things. It's a lot of hurry up and wait so a smallish embroidery project is perfect.
On another note, as a historical re-enactor, I can tell you drinking hot coffee out of a pewter mug is dangerous if you are half asleep.
I remember bargello being a big thing in the 60s and 70s. I'm thinking it looked vaguely psychedelic in the hot pinks and lime greens of the time.
i have been obsessed with these 18th century pocketbooks that ive seen super frequently in my historical fashion research, but i am not an embroiderer (it's too freehand for me, i love working on a grid) and i thought i would never be able to/want to make them myself. i had no idea what the style of needlework was called, and i hadn't realised that they weren't just regular embroidery. i'm SO GLAD i saw this video, because it has dumped me straight down the bargello rabbithole and i have bought myself all the supplies. serendipitously, the day after i saw this video i went to a book fair where almost every book was $1.50, and i found four bargello books, one being the same dorothy kaestner book you referenced in this video. a serious of lovely coincidences has led me to a delightful place, and i thank you much!
Not read the other comments so someone might have mentioned this - with canvas that feels sharp and to stop it fraying.. I bind the edges with felt which I take off when the project is complete and sew it on my next piece.
Love this video xx
What a great idea! Thanks ❤
This is a very neat idea!
When the canvas is scratchy/abrasive i use the masking tape on the edges
Oh! Look into Hardanger, another counted technique. I really enjoy working pieces in this style.
I love Hardanger, was gonna suggest it too
Yall might like to watch Karen the needlebugg she does hardanger sometimes as well as cross stitch
@@arianaodom6601 Thanks for the recommendation. I'd not heard of her.
We are getting absolutely spoiled on uploads! Thanks for all your hard work, this is gonna be great to have coffee with 🎉
This is the stitch we were taught when we were starting embroidery in class, we were 6-7-8 years old? Used it to make a bag and cushions. So yes, children pick this up easily.
tip if you need double yarn, pull the needle on the middle of the working yarn, when you finish the yarn, cut the needle loose after you attach the thread.
As a quilter, I can confirm we definitely like Bargello quilts. I've done a couple, one shaped into a heart, and one wave. Trying to get my act together to do a flame in Aurora Borealis colors.
Maybe I just need to get some needlepoint canvas and do it that way.
That would be lovely!
If you ever want to do mug replacement again, my grandmother served me and my brother in a small elephant teapot and an elephant milk pitcher. We drank from the trunk.
I am 76… yes, I was part of the 70’s bargello cult!! You’re making me go through boxes in the back of closets and start again. I loved it and my pillows are still perfect. The end product is not only very beautiful…it’s tough!
Not a lady, but I love salad plates. That's what I call those plate bowl thingies. They're so nice for rice dishes and salads. I love them.
I call them pasta plates!
me too :)
They're ideal for grits, particularly if you're putting something on top. Just had eggs over easy on our favorite local mill grits for while watching.
😂 70s flashbacks 😂. We made so much stuff with that plastic canvas. My favorite was little trinket boxes. I had forgotten about plastic canvas boxes till you gave me flashbacks 😂 and I’ve been trying to find just the right travel container for my seam ripper and sewing awl. May have to bust out a piece of plastic canvas, some yarn and brush the rust off of my crafting skills.
I did a Bargello piece decades ago, I guess in the 70’s, had it in a small footstool for many years. It finally got worn and the small wood footstool. I tried to find the pattern again to recreate the project but never did. Just the word Bargello in the title made me click on your video. Thank you! I will be able to search once again. I have learned to spin my own wool to make yarn and always hoped to make a Bargello piece because it shows off the yarn so splendidly.
The thing that fascinates me the most about embroidery of all of the thread crafts is the fact that you are essentially painting with thread. Like, the threads are making up the brush strokes of a painting and they can be overlaid, interspersed, dotted, knotted, etc. There are so many potentials for expression with embroidery and that's even before you get into beadwork. It's such a fascinating subject.
That food processor bowl made me so nervous. You really filled it as much as you could!
Platebowls! Long live the plate-bowl! I love them and my husband is still meh 20 years in😂
Same here! He'll use them for spaghetti though, as he understands their superiority in that regard.
I've always called the 'not quite bowl, not quite plate' a pasta bowl. It is way easier to eat slippery things like pasta from them. And yes am a woman who loves using them!
I'm think they make funky wide sash belts sowed ribbons to the ends. I'm usually a cross stitcher so my daughter at about 8 tried out cross stitching and your suggestion was exactly, how we did it. The plastic canvas with the plastic needles used a large size with yarn.
Everytime you said Bargello all I heard was “machello” so immediately my brain went to Stargate: “Yes! Inventions to fight the Goa'uld”. I imagine that’s a nerdy reference not many people will get but thought I’d share in case I’m not the only one 😂
You have opened a whole new world of coffee containment. I loved the vase, too.😁Btw, I remember these types of patterns in the 70's (yah, I'm old.) Loved the geometric designs. Never tried it (remarkably as I tried every other type of stitch work to my mother's chagrin.) Maybe I will.
I tend to look for ways to add these kinds of crafts to my clothing makes. Now I'm imagining bargello on tulle for a skirt or maybe on a linen blouse.
I mean I am german so I could be wrong, but I also thought aida was pronounced like the opera. That just made the most sense to me 🤷🏼♀
I think the Americans pronounce it Aid-a like "first aid" because that is easier for us than the other ai blend sounds. Could be totally wrong.
@@ProcraftinatorSharon The stitchers in my family say EYE-dah, but I do sometimes say eye-EE-dah, like the opera
I actually did some looking into the correct pronunciation of aida years ago and it seems like no one is really sure where the word originated so we can’t be sure of which way is “correct”
So as to the quilting, like... It's actually really great for quilting because you can stitch 2.5" strips together then make your "steps" you cut the large fabric you've made into different widths and sew them back together with extra bits on the end.
Back in the 90’s Bargello became very popular in the Quilting circles, Mom was in a couple of sewing groups where they spent months working on so many different styles. I still not unpacked all of Moms quilting supplies but she had done I think 4-5 different types. I did only the one, loved the style just hated working in fabric apposed to yarn. All my quilting projects have been appliqué as I can hand stitch it all with embroidery floss. I have a very extensive embroidery floss collection of cottons, wool, silk, polyester and many other types of yarn. Some of them as old as 50+ years old. Mom would always raid my stash of yarns for the odd projects that she did doing appliqué.
I use to buy a lot if my yarns from deceased estates back in the 80-90’s and then one day the yarn shop I was buying from was selling everything off at 1/8th of the price to clear out her shop as she was closing her doors after 60 years of business. Every fortnight after getting paid I would go into the shop and just bulk buy at $50-100 depending on how much I had spare. I picked all of the ones still in boxes that had not been opened I did not worry about colours as all colours would eventually get used. I did this for a whole year and even then she had not sold off everything. At the end of the year she packed the rest and placed it into her spare room at home. Her GrandDaughter used it all to start her online business, I would have bought but she increased the prices way to high for me. So I’m just happy to have what I did buy during the shops closing down sales.
So much of my stock is still in the original boxes from her shop. I never bothered with canvases only the yarns. Most of them are no longer on DMC charts today as they are from the 50’s and 60’s and some from the 70’s when the book you’re using came out. I have the 1st book but even most of my supplies are still packed away from when I moved back home to help Dad with looking after Mom.
I will have to get it all sorted out, it’s so frustrating not being able to get into my stash at times😹😹😹
I also love the deep plate/shallow bowl style! Eating off of one right now. Using them for pasta makes me feel like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant.
Great video! As you cross things off your to-do list you add to mine, lol!
When I was a kid in the 80s, my Girl Scout troop made tissue-box covers using basically this technique, with plastic canvas and worsted weight yarn, so you're right about it being a suitable activity for kids.
Oooh, gorgeous! I love the way the colors you choose change the illusion of depth - that one looked 3D. Might make a really cool collar and cuffs or pockets or even a hem stiffener if you wanted a flowy fabric to stand out a bit. Just rambling thoughts. PS, that couch is in such a cool spot for daytime light. Yay.
I haven't thought of this in years the 60's and 70's real revival of the arts and crafts movement. There was also a lot of recycling reusing tin cans to make things. Lots of flowers power too. I too have a list of needle crafts I would like to try or at least learn something about them. I also saw years ago something about using cross stitch patterns but doing it in fabric! Which sounds frustrating but fun!
Oh and I've found that the best not coffee much is a thick ceramic beer stien. The ceramic holds the heat really well, has a handle and hold a lot of coffee!
We called it Modifying stitch. It is much easier than cross stitch. We used to do it on grocery bags. On Matty cloth. With cotton six strands. Now I have done it on plastic sheet also. Thanks 🙏
So proud of Matt, yay for Matt taking on the Bargello!
I found your channel a few days after I got rid of over 500 full bolts of random fabric that I inherited from my mom. (It was gifted to her when a friend closed their local fabric/craft store. Then a couple weeks ago I found (& got rid of) a bunch of needlework projects…including Bargello as it was taught in my high school’s Home Economics class. (I graduated in 1998) So instead of continuing to sort through my mom’s craft stuff, I’m just going to hold onto everything just in case you make something that I have the supplies for, lol.
What riches! I started quilting after receiving 8 bins of quilting fabric after my coworker's mother died. Sad event, but a rich gift.
@@RebeccaTreeseed I’m sorry for your co-worker’s loss. It’s interesting how things come into our lives…most notably the mundane things that takes you from a sense of overwhelming anxiety to a practical hobby/skill, especially when it saves you a ton of money in the long run!!
@@jdot3345I hope she knows her precious things found a loving home. I have made quilts for family members that extended good homes for them. They like getting grammy's original quilt designs.
My auntie used to do this! She passed away in 2011. And I remember her doing this all the time, her house was filled with Bargello ❤️ I’m so happy to finally find the name of this craft! Definitely getting my supplies to make some!
I pronounce Aida like the name Ada. Also I love your scissor necklace-that seems so useful!
i like the green and blue colour scheme, it's very peacock
You are my new favourite RUclips and fibre artist/creator!!! Your videos strike the perfect balance of crafty and interesting and relatable and hilarious and - of course - excellent dog content. From one sofa crafter with a sleeping dog to another ❤❤❤
Back in the dark ages my only bargello was upholstery for a wingback chair. Need I say that was my only bargello
25:50 as someone new to the world of stitching crafts I picked up a bargello kit for the holidays and upon enjoying it ran into this problem trying to find out more about it. Similar problem with something some people call 'canvas work' or 'counted canvas work' which is (I think) a form of needlepoint somewhere between embroidery and bargello. It has some really interesting texture too it and ends up, funnily enough, looking like a quilt but it's all hand-stitched needlework.
Looking forward to seeing your larger bargello project!
LOVE LOVE LOVE Silk and Ivory thread❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Welcome to needlepoint
I love geometric types of patterns, so this looks fun!
Also both my husband and I prefer using our "bowl plates" whenever possible. I like the higher sides to keep me from spilling my food all over myself, especially since we often eat sitting on the couch
My partner and I love our "plowls" (only called this on occasion, in a silly mood) and splades (sporks but leaning a lil more knife). They're good for almost everything except soup or hamburgers
I had to comment over the hilarity of the pasta-sized dish for your coffee! I knew if I tried that, most would have wound up on the kitchen floor before even making it to my sewing room. Also, bargello quilting started to get big around the late 1980s to the 1990s onward. (Am a quilter)
I have a book with bargello patterns checked out from the library as I am currently working a crochet blanket designed in that style.
I had to laugh when you mentioned someone said it was hard as ‘they never tried counted cross stitch’ sprang to mind.’
You're a beautiful, wonderful person too 😊
One of our machine knit patterns in the group I follow is a Bargello style scarf using variegated yarn and its beautiful. You made great progress and I am glad you are having fun. Keep I mind those panels you made can be incorporated into a corset or waistband with attached canvas and lacing. The plastic could be used, cut down, into coasters and glasses cases……….👊🏼
I don't really know why, but the exchange between you and Mat at 32:40 was so satisfying for my brain. I rewatched that one bit so many times 😅 Like the "You remind me of the babe" bit in Labyrinth
You can usually find evenweave linen (that's what the ones with no punches holes are) at fabric stores in rolls and probably much cheaper than craft or needlework stores. You could even try your loved discount fabric store you frequent if they have the store organized in a way you wouldn't have to search through the whole store. I normally look for craft supplies in odd places like home improvement stores for things like twine which is usually 98% less than a craft store.
I remember when I went to the Bargello as a needleworker i was extremely excited to see Those Chairs and they were just randomly in a room lol. Don't remember if i took a picture but all my pictures from the digital camera era are missing if they weren't uploaded to Facebook.
I alway enjoy your videos- thanks a lot!
You: This trip to the local shop was quite expensive
also you: I choose a yarn with 50% real silk and 5o% merino wool from switzerland
Yes, I can´t imagine where the high pricetag came from
😂😂 😘
i mean, if they only carry expensive things, and don't have a low price point options... like i understand LA rent and higher markup and it maybe not making sense to carry things that have low profit in stores.
Re: soup plates, I adore them. They are perfect for things like canned beans, stews, and just anything with a bit of gravy or sauce.
So, historically, Mongols drank from bowls. I learned this while attending an SCA event (Society for Creative Anachronism). And here's the thing. Drinking from a bowl, with both hands, is very mindful. Whatever you are drinking becomes your entire focus for a few seconds. It is almost like meditating on the fluid. Coffee, wine, tea, even water becomes your entire focus. The smell, the taste, the temperature. The simple act of drinking consumes your entire being. It's refreshing. It is calming. And it is a worthwhile activity, even in itself.
I'm really glad you decided on this experiment. I hope you learned something about yourself, and your focus.
The mug replacements slayed me... visually I find this design most pleasing to my eye... I have done a bit on plastic canvas... too slow... n looked at quilting books... too complex... as goldilocks I haven't found my just right... I'll keep this in reserve as I think it would be easy to do in the RV w/ my grand kids...
as soon as I saw silk and merino-- an OH!!! popped out of my mouth! I have some plastic canvas that I wanted to make for Christmas house display items (I am a cross stitcher and there are only so many things I can MAKE and use.. but some holiday stuff is fun)
The alternative to a mug challenge feels like a challenge invented by someone who really wanted to go out of their way to avoid doing dishes, and I'm all for that 😂Bargello definitely looks like a nice option to watch TV while working on it, once the basic pattern is laid down with one or 2 colors it looks like some of the options are pretty easy to work on without giving it 100% focus. That's mainly why I prefer embroidery over cross stitch (unless the pattern is preprinted for the cross stitch). Most embroidery patterns I work on are either preprinted or pre-drawn on and and I just get to follow the lines, only having to worry about using the right stitch or color
I LOVE Bargello stitch, always have since I was a kid. I used to make glasses cases with plastic canvas using the bargello stitch and cheap yarn. You use what you have! My mom taught me to double up the yarn for the finer canvas. Its beautiful and very simple, once you get into it. Excellent for kids with their small hands. I was 8ish in the 80s when we did it. We also did punch needle, but that's another story.
I love your videos from beginning to end, and am so entertained by your outtakes! Thanks for including them!😂
I've made several bargello style quilts. One fabric print was an ombre dark to light across the width, which lended itself to being cut into strips and put back together to make the steps. I did a "cathedral" pattern in warm fall colors for a wedding gift for a friend (came to a gentle point), and then a medallion patter in black/white/red for a table runner for another friend's daughter's wedding. I used the scraps of the first to do a ribbon wall hanging for my mom. If you play with both the height and the width of the quilt blocks it does some weird and amazing things, but I like keeping the srtip width a constand and only mess with the width of the cut. I've not used a jelly roll in this way but I'm sure it can be done to good effect.
Part of the fun of quilting for me is choosing the fabrics, so the precut packaged fabrics are not as appealing.
that pastel one with the star looks like a landscape and i really like it. like pastel hills in a sunrise
I did a lot of bargello at some point in my needlework history. It was probably back in the 70's. I always enjoyed it because it grew so quickly. The plastic canvas is awful, except for kids. I always used natural tapestry canvas; the kind that has double threads and is about 14 count, and tapestry wool.
I did a little bargello years ago, thanks for the reminder. I've just realised it'll be ideal to feature in miniature in my upcoming 1970's Dolls House project!
I love how you just adapt and poke at crafts, see what works and what doesn't, versus just trying to match things exactly. And I know there were other comments but when it comes to many crafts, number are 'per inch' fabric, canvas, those tend to be threads per inch, if you ever work with wire, it's the numbeer of wraps side by side to fill an inch. ...never did get sense of crochet hooks, some go up, but the finer ones go down.
And while it is perfectly acceptable to use as a vase, I'm more used to seeing a carafe full of orange juice or water in the morning 😊Definitely a good choice for coffee!
You are a lovely person. I love watching you and especially enjoy your enthusiasm. It is infections in the best possible way. These are neat and I definitely want to try some more embroidery type stuff. Thanks for the inspiration. :)
the standard, easy to find 7 holes per inch plastic canvas is used with worsted weight yarn. like red heart. i search out plastic 14 holes per inch plastic canvas for cotton cross stitch or needlepoint earrings / broach / magnets .
I remember using that and doing this as a kid! With the plastic needle. I bet this would be so much nicer to do with the supplies she picked up.
God, it's been about 30 years since I've done Bargello!! wonder if I still have the instructions/ info🤔. I got my mum's "golden hands" magazines when I moved away from home, so now I just have to find them. along with the other needlework magazines I got from her. I see a new project on the horizon😂
This reminds me of a memory I have asked other people about. Do you remember people making covers for their Kleenex boxes? Like, when I was young, so many people were covering up their Kleenex boxes. Toilet paper sometimes too. I know it still exists to some extent, but those plastic canvases were definitely involved in the conspiracy to hide tissues. Maybe the boxes just got more attractive??? People got lazy. Idk. T-Shirts used to be offensive as outerwear. The past was wild.
So bargello quilting often uses the same motifs you'll see in the needlepoint. For instance, the blue-green motif you worked is often called "Light in the valley". They're generally made by sewing "strip sets" of your desired color arrangement, then cutting the strip sets into a variety of widths. These can then be offset a specific amount, and it does seem to often stick with the same half-height offset used for embroidery. Of course, because quilters can never leave well enough alone, you'll see all kinds of fascinating variations that bear no resemblance to traditional embroidery motifs, but it's really interesting to see the evolution.
Thank you so much for introducing me to this stitching book/style....I received it last night...and I was speechless...my embroidery game will never be the same...
It's funny how I used to do these when I was a kid and never knew it was like a proper embroidery style ❤
I love how much you love your dog❤️🇨🇦🐾
What a fabulous-looking series of patterns you can get from this style. And fun to learn about something I knew nothing about before!
The Plate/Bowl is our favorite in our house. My husband loves them so much that I ended up buying a replacement set on Ebay for more than I would normally pay of the exact ones that were in our house for the last 15 years. So many were chipped and broken that I had to do it. He did not complain at all. But....now he is more careful with them. LOL
I did Bargello "back in the day" being young I got bored with it. Thanks for the memories
Sooooooo purdy. Blackwork is on my list to try from a historical point of view, sashiko is because it looks really chill, but I may also have to investigate this
Blimey I remember making a cushion cover in the 90's in this style!
the vase was also my fav out of all your drinking utensils. it seemed like the most unhinged lol!
Bargello fits into this weird category of fibre crafts that has a long history, got really popular in the late 1800s/early 1900s, then faded into obscurity until the 1970s, when it got big again. The same thing happened with macrame. Nowadays we associate these crafts so strongly with the 70s but you can find macrame and bargello instructional books from the 1890s.
As someone who has a slight fascination with dying and obscure crafts. This video has inspired me to buy both books and add it to my list of things to learn ... alongside the lace making, weaving and spinning (there's many more but they are the latest ones)
Re those not plates not bowls, I exclusively use them for main meals now. When we have guests over, some of them hate them so much they have to have plates while we use the not plates not bowls.
You can repair holes in a window screen using any grid based stitching technique.
Window screens can generally be removed either by turning the clips around the side, lifting the screen upwards in the frame then tipping the bottom out.
Eventually you may need to just replace the screen (many you can replace the screen from the frame) but adding a decoration, rather than replacing a large one in full, or the whole thing if it's attached permanently...
You probably want to rinse the screen before you start stitching.
Kenneth J Goelzer - Diamonds in the Round 8 Way Bargello
My grandmother had a bunch of decorative pillows that she'd made with this technique.
I’ve done this on plastic canvas before, but at the time I had no idea it was called bargello stitchers. When using the plastic canvas, I always used knitting/crotchet yarn. It covers the plastic quite well.
These Bargello stitch pieces turned out Beautiful 👌❤
Haven’t tried before but definitely looks like a fun new craft! Lovely patterns with your lovely choices of floss.
Will follow along to see how it turns out and listen to your stories.
I have made a few bargello quilts and there are tricks to it so you don't have to sew hundreds of squares 😊 you can if you want but I prefer to work in strip tubes
There was a big Bargello trend in quilting in the past few years. I really like your green and blue design. You should try it in another color way. Oh, and the plate-bowl is great for pasta!
Some of the best pupper content on the Interwebs.
I have a bargello quilt project waiting to be started for... I'm not going to say how many years now.
I think embroidery is a much more approachable method for the technique.
I typically give the age I started doing embroidery as 11-12 when my grandma taught me on pillowcases, but apparently it should be more like 8 because she had tons of needlepoint canvases and would have us go play around with them and her stash of yarn (she gave us cheap yarn, not fancy tapestry yarn because money) and I'm pretty sure it was that EXACT same book. I would always get super frustrated because I couldn't finish whatever I was working on before the visit was over and we went home. My mind is actually blown and now I want to see if I can get back into it. Great, another thing to do with my nonexistent spare time.
Bowl-mugs and bowl-plates are the best! I have some that are microwave/dishwasher safe plastic, and I use them more than anything else. However I don’t think I could drink coffee out of them lol. And all I could think of with the coffee in a vase was when a drunk guest at my wedding drank the water from one of the flower vases 😂
I love your dress in the intro! Super cute
Your sample barbells were pretty. I especially like the pastel waves and sun.
Huh, I have a late 60s/early 70s book which identifies Hungarian stitch as a pattern in bargello.
Yeah, needlework is so confusingly named. The style of knitting I do is sometimes called Irish knitting. My grandmother taught me. She learned it as a child in the Netherlands 🤷🏻♀️
As a 70's/80's kid, in Girl Scouts, and other activities, we did plastic canvas. The canvases were like 4"x4" and it was usually a picture, like an angel or santa claus and looked sort of pixelated . I never finished any of them because I would get confused. I think I have dyscalculia, I had lots of problems with counting without skipping and repeating numbers. Fun fact: my mom taught me how to cross stitch using gingham cloth (aka chicken scratch). But between the counting, wanting to cross my stitches, and the white grid showing,... I was a confused kiddo. And again when I tried a kit in my 20's. Lol. I think I will try the traditional styles, especially because they are a repeated pattern.