Football or Stitching?
It's easy to find something to write about during big sports
tournaments, as there will always be people who don't watch to join
in with the hype and would rather stitch instead.
But we don't want to lose sight of those who enjoy stitching AND
watching the World Cup, but one tip - don't stitch a complicated
section during the exciting bits! You'll definitely go wrong, count
your stitches wrongly or use the wrong thread. Find a nice easy
block of just one colour and stitch away, it does relieve the
tension!
I'm not a huge football fan, I can take it or leave it, but I
must admit I like a bit of Formula 1 motor racing and I always
stitch a nice bit of motorbike tyre or something equally straight
forward in the last few laps of a race! And thanks to the recent
motor racing, I had time to finish my Spitfire! Here the picture I
promised last time, just in time for our aircraft special. It was a
brilliant stitch, with some lovely straightforward bits in the
clouds.
The Spitfire kit costs £27.95, dimensions are 14.3" by 10", or
36.3cm by 25.4cm (when stitched on 14 count aida) and it uses 16 DMC
colours.
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My completed Spitfire, I love it!. |
Head in the clouds
As promised, this month I want to showcase our aircraft designs.
As always, we want you to ‘stitch something a bit different' and so
our aircraft designs are definitely that! They're all caricatures,
all cost £27.95 for the kit and are bright, colourful and certainly
stand out from the crowd!
First is of a similar era to the Spitfire, the Lancaster Bomber.
It's a similar size to the Spitfire too, measuring 14.3" by 10.1"
(or 36.3cm by 25.6cm) and uses 17 DMC colours. The 2 designs
stitched together would really stand out.
Next, 2 much more modern planes, a Harrier Jump Jet and Tornado.
The Harrier kit uses 15 colours to give that brilliant camouflage
effect. It measures 14.3" by 7.8" (36.3cm by 19.8cm) so is a little
less tall than the previous ones.
The Tornado is a fantastically bright design, with a slightly
different colour scheme. The kit uses 17 DMC colours. Measuring
14.3" by 10" (36.3cm by 25.4cm), you can see that all of these
designs would work together in a triptych, or whatever you would
call a triptych with 2 or 4 pictures instead!
Finally, we have 2 entirely different designs, different because
they show the sort of aircraft we might have travelled on (if we
were very lucky!) in the recent past. Concorde is a lovely design.
It adheres to the BA—type design and really shows off the beautiful
shape of that sadly missed plane. The design measures 14" by 8.1",
35.6cm by 20.7cm.
And then a very different looking plane which
has proved to be very popular, the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, in Virgin's
colours. Using only 11 DMC colours, it is again a similar size, at
13.2" by 10.1" (33.6cm by 25.6cm.
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Lancaster Bomber
Harrier Jump Jet
Tornado
Beautiful Concorde
Virgin Jumbo Jet
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Aircraft Type 2
So we've covered aeroplanes, what about helicopters? First
devised by Leonardi DaVinci, but not actually built for a few more
hundred years, you can now create your own in stitched form from our
3 designs.
Firstly, a helicopter made famous by a fabulously cheesy 80s TV
show—Airwolf. Regardless of whether you remember the show, it's a
lovely stitch with quite a few blocky bits for those who like to
stitch without too much fiddling (maybe whilst watching that
football again!). The kit costs £27.95, uses 14 DMC colours and
measures 14.3" by 10.1" (36.3cm by 25.6cm).
Next, a helicopter in the same vein as the aircraft above, the
Longbow. Priced at £33.95, this design uses more colours than the
others (23 DMC colours) and measures 14.1" by 9" (35.7cm by 22.9cm).
Finally, a tribute to those wonderful men and women who risk
their lives saving others, we have our rescue helicopter design, at
£27.95. It uses 15 DMC colours and measures 14.3cm by 10.1cm (36.3cm
by 25.8cm).
3 very different designs, but as you can see here they do go well
either together or as an individual piece of artwork.
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Airwolf helicopter
Longbow helicopter
Rescue helicopter
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Facebook update
You can now find us more easily on Facebook, using our own URL, www.facebook.com/Stitchtastic . Come and click ‘Like' to become
a Fan, and keep up with all our stitching antics! You can put your
own pictures of our designs that you've stitched up on the page, or
just admire the wonderful work of our brilliant stitchers.
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Next Month
Next month, we've got another stitcher to feature, plus some new
& classic Land Rover & Range Rover designs.
Enjoy the what's left of the football!
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Questions or comments? E-mail me at
sarah@stitchtastic.com or call +44 (0) 114 2353958
Until next time
Sarah
Designer
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