Thursday, September 16, 2010

The Newest Project

Always something new.  This new project will be taking Swedish weaving to places it's never been before.  But, I guess that's nothing new for Ivy Stitching patterns.
What is absolutely new with this new project is that I will be blogging about it throughout the process.   I will keep you posted on the progress, joy, and work (and many headaches and redo's) of creating Swedish weave designs and patterns.

The new project already has a name even though it is still very much -- in the works.  It is "Home is Where the Heart Is".  The pattern is dedicated to an amazing Swedish weaving friend of mine who lives in Maine.

I'm really excited about this project.  Even though it doesn't look like much yet, it will be loads of fun to do.
So, here is your first glimpse:
The green piece of monks cloth is my designing scrap.  It gets stitched and then the stitches get pulled out over and over and over again.  This process of figuring out a design is not pretty and it is repeated countless numbers or times.  Then, of course, there are many little sketches on paper of ideas and such before the scrap stitching.  So the white monks cloth is what I will be working the final draft on.




Here is the beginning border of the afghan or blanket.  I'll tell you right now, it took 10 lengths of yarn (yes 10!!!) for the row that you can see that I'm working on.  That will be fixed for the pattern, because just pulling and pulling yarn through the floats is not my idea of a good time!
I love the look of checker board.  My love for it came from the artist Mary Engelbreit (ME).  I love her stuff.  I usually receive a Mary Engelbreit calendar each year for Christmas and they are my favorite ones!

Okay, check back and see the progress on this exciting "Home" project.
'Til then, happy weaving!