I,ve been doing a little Christmas stitching , mostly before turning off the bedside lamp last thing in the evening . Not much time during the day now with Christmas fast approaching and so much to be done .
This is a vintage crewel embroidery kit that I found on Ebay . Designed by Emile Bernat in 1976 --Bernat Yarn & Craft Corp .
The lovely seller told me that she had started it (just one tiny purple flower petal at the top-which I left in ) and would love to see it completed and I cant wait to begin !
So , to begin with - sorting the colours out was very hard mainly because of the names given to the colours , which dont match up with my idea of what the colour is . If you are doing this kit , then you will know what I mean !
My kit had lost the picture of the finished embroidery , so I had to find it online and both of the two pictures that I found were very poor quality photos..I think the original photo was very poor quality to begin with..so very hard to match up the colours .
Then there was the wool .... which is " Bernat "1-2-3PLY" Persian Type " 100% Orlon Acrylic fibres .....which is very different to my usual Appletons crewel wool . The 70's was the time when nylon was having it's heyday ! I cringe thinking about those Nylon sheets ..everything was Nylon ...anyway so this thread has quite a different feel .
The linen is quite a loose weave , better suited to cross stitch really , but , we shall persevere !
There is also some lovely sparking gold thread .
The medieval Nativity scene design is lovely and I am following the instructions to see how it turns out....however I will be undoing little Lord Jesus bright yellow hair , also his red face ...which I,m afraid , I just cant live with !(see the pic above ) . I might even use a much finer thread .
I am going to stitch this beautiful design again , using better quality linen and threads .
At the time I found this on Ebay I noticed that there was another one listed in America ....which had also been started ..if you are the lucky person that bought it , I,d love to know how you coming along with it .
Not sure if I,ll complete it in time for this Christmas , but it has been a nice meditative piece to embroider over Advent .
Wishing you all a Peaceful and blessed Christmas .
This is going to be an amazing project. I'm looking toward to seeing how you put it all together.
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We appreciate it it so much, Thank you :) Steve has another doctor appointment Thursday so we are hoping for a better report.
Merry Christmas.
Connie :)