Unfortunately, I started stitching him before the start date of the April Fool’s challenge so I kinda disqualified myself from the challenge with this pattern. Of course, I changed the rest of the colors as well. I thought what in the world was I going to with these then settled on this particular pattern. My mother bought my colors for me which were Ecru from DMC, PB34 from Rainbow Gallery, and Father’s Day from Weeks Dye Works. Further, the project had to be a certain size. There was three threads picked from DMC, metallic, and hand dyed. They decide to do an April Fool’s challenge with thread based on your birthday. What you don’t know is they have a sense of humor and like to create some fun and challenging projects for their stitch group. You all know I buy most of my supplies through Embroidery Central. It’s a long process but according to her blog she is enjoying it. However, Futurecast is a freebie that can be found on her website. She is also releasing some of the designs through Patterns Online. Wentzler is taking another look at her designs and converting them from hand drawn to computerized. I may or may not have have paid $50.00 for one of her patterns at one time or another. Her patterns are hard to find, believe me, I started collecting her ten years ago and eBay became the place to shop. If you like castles, fairies, mid evil stuff, then she is hands down the one to go to. Herald) from one of my favorite designers Teresa Wentzler. I’d like to explore the work of Nora Corbett for Mirabilia, Passione Ricamo and others, and I recently got a book of Joan Elliott designs that might keep me busy for a while, but I know I will always come back home to TW.Okay so here is the skinny on this cute little dragon. Working these designs has the unfortunate side effect of making a lot of other stitching patterns look unsophisticated or juvenile – the kind of hokey pieces that make people look at you funny when you say you really enjoy cross stitch – so it’s put the pressure on to find other designers with comparable skills. I won’t give exact numbers here, but I was floored by the prices she gave me! It seems all that work is worth something to someone after all, even if it is only the insurance company!įather Winter will probably be my last TW piece for a while, but I’ve discovered that I now have standards. She asked me if I had ever had my finished pieces appraised for insurance purposes (I have not), and then told me the estimates for both framed and unframed pieces. I discussed this one day with one of the ladies at the shop, and told her I mainly worked on TW’s designs. I really want to have Stroke of Midnight framed for my living room, and plan to have it done at Suwannee Valley Cross Stitch in Trenton. I’ve completed seven of her designs, and am plugging away at the eighth. I have recently begun to think I might to like to design cross stitch patterns, but looking at TW’s work makes me realize I have a very long way to go. I love watching her work in progress, and cannot wait for the Jacobean design to come out I hope she will make the carousel horse into a design too. TW is an amazing artist as well, and has blogs for both her needlework and her art. Most of her pieces have a patterned border that shows off some fancy stitching, and some make heavy use of beading (Angel of Frost took a long time to finish, but it was worth it -see below). A nice feature of her work is that even in the easy pieces, she uses a lot of blended needle threads (using one strand of one color and one strand of another) to soften the contrasts. TW’s designs range from very easy (Rapunzel was mostly just straight stitching) to very complicated (Father Winter uses many different embroidery techniques – see previous post). There’s a good cross-section of fantasy, medieval and floral designs to choose from, and the color schemes are soft and pretty. I’ve worked on her designs almost exclusively for the past 12 years – why is that?įor one thing, her designs are beautiful, and incorporate themes I like. It’s probably safe to say Teresa Wentzler is my favorite cross stitch designer.
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