Latest Swedish Weaving project . . .

After lots of changes and un-doing and re-doing and un-stitching and re-stitching, I now have the next row figured out to my liking.

This photo shows the work in progress with lots of dangling sections of yarn.  I have used several different colors for this project that you may want to limit to 2 or three.  I just have a weakness for lots of colors.

So far the colors I've used are:  2 shades of brown, 2 shades of green, pink, lavendar, smoky blue, yellow, and tangerine.  Yes that is 9 colors!  Like I said most people will probably limit this to between 2-4.

I think this will be so adorable when it is all done!!!

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!

Needs Some Love and Attention

It's time for some change. I have a website called Ivy Stitching that I have put an occasional blog type entry on. I also have a blog with a variety of fun stuff on it called Mom of 5 Daughters and then last of all I have this blog that has been totally neglected and is in need of my attention. So, here goes, a new look, a new post, and a new link from my website. This will take the place of the occasional website entry that I have done in the past.

Hopefully, my technology skills are up to snuff enough to have this all work correctly ;-)

I may be just having some good intentions at the moment, but I hope to include pictures and links and all kinds of good stuff in this blog, which will be quite a change for this blog and the one on my website.

Okay, I'm going to go check this out and see if it works!!!