Just a short post today of a little whitework R with the hope that I shall be back in the swing of regular weekly posting by Friday. My problem – if problem it can be said to be – is that having more time at my disposal has meant I’ve been able to get on with slightly bigger projects of embroidering cushions. I discovered French Linen fabric from The Cloth House which I now absolutely adore using as it lends itself beautifully to hand embroidery. I don’t like using a frame but I also don’t like to see fabric puckering around embroidery stitches, so usually I use ‘Stitch and Tear’ as a stabiliser. But with this linen I don’t need to use anything, embroidery is a joy and I love having my hands very connected to the thread in the needle and fabric, which you just don’t have with a frame. My problem is that The Cloth House is temporarily out of stock of the linen I use. I have fabric sufficient for all five cushion fronts but only for two full cushions including the backs. Do I carry on with the embroidered fronts and hope the fabric materialises or do I make up just the two of them and source another fabric? I think I’m leaning towards the first option which is about as reckless as I’ve been since lockdown …
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I think I would keep on making fronts as well!
Thank you – it’s surprised me how helpful it is to hear someone say this.
I think I would by inclination be too much of a purist about having the back and front in the same fabric. (Though I may well carry on making fronts with my fingers crossed that the Cloth House turn up trumps and announce French linen is back in stock!)
I shall keep my fingers crossed for you when I’m not embroidering!
Thank you, Rachel
Me too. The backs can be made from some other fabric anyway. If you can’t get any more of this French linen it would be a shame to have used it to make the backs. The rose is beautiful
As I said to Rachel, it is very useful to hear what people think.
I’m just hoping French linen makes a reappearance – soonish – so I don’t have to agonise about what to use a backing!
I’ll cross my fingers for you Mary!
Best of luck getting the rest of your fabric?!
I’ve sourced something that is the same sort of white but just a bit more open weave and I think it will work if I used the new fabric for the back of the cushions.
So glad. So many things are in short supply nowadays.
And I’ve just heard the French linen is back in stock – just after I’d bought a substitute!
But better that way than not finding anything at all and I’m never short of uses for white linen.