i realised recently i never posted this guy finished. his name is Edward (effervescent) and i once edited him from discord emojis . he's been done for like a year

decided to wait until this one was finished to show it!

this is my first cross stitch/blackwork design and i really like how it worked out with the variegated thread!

When I said I'd continue stitching colour wheels until I was stopped, I meant it. Blackwork embroidery on black 14-count Aida cloth.

A total of 17 thread colours across 24 sections, each with its own fill motif.

Pattern here.

From this pattern: https://ko-fi.com/s/33f47e68ab

Waistcoat

c.1620-1625

England

The high waistline and narrow sleeves, open at the front seam, are characteristic of women's waistcoats of the early 1620s. The blackwork embroidery is of exquisite quality and is worked in a continuous pattern throughout the body of the garment. A group of interlocking curling stems enhanced with a garden of roses, rosebuds, peapods, oak leaves, acorns, pansy and pomegranates, with wasps, butterflies and birds, make up the embroidery design. The extremely fine speckling stitches create the shaded effect of a woodblock print. This style of blackwork is typical of the early seventeenth-century and thought to have been inspired by the designs from woodblock prints that the embroiderers were using. The waistcoat is unlined and embellished with an insertion of bobbin lace in black and white linen at the back of each sleeve, and a edging of bobbin lace in the same colours.

The Victoria & Albert (Accession number: T.4-1935)

Complete cornflower blackwork.

This represents approximately 50ish hours of work.

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Little hand embroidered beetle brooches, with hand stitched wings hiding under wing covers.

I will continue stitching colour wheels until I am stopped. Blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida.

This one uses just seven thread colours (six for the fills, plus white for outlines). Each section has a 3-part gradient on a bit of a curve, which was a bit different to design, but no harder to stitch than my earlier 2-part gradients.

Pattern here.

“Somniphobia”

I see you, Jon...

I see you!

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Ivan Zagusta

Photos by Sydney Darwin

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"Enough sewing for a few weeks at least!" I tell myself

*Let's do a fast and easy project!" I say next

*proceeds to do colorfully blackwood on black canvas*

No it doesn't make any sense, thanks for asking

(pattern by @loosethreadstitchery)