Butterfly Basket 5

April 25, 2010, 8:31 pm
Filed under: Butterfly Baskets

This is the fifth of the Butterfly Basket series & is a “Pinsations” original design & stitch selection. The pin is added to the piece so that the pin can be removed, worn, & replaced.

The darker yellow flowers are Rambler Rose and the lighter yellow flowers are a combination of Lazy Daisy + French Knots. The basket is Tied Gobelin. The stem is Fern with variations in length for curves. I still used several shades of brown DMC floche to get some depth to the basket. For the edging around the basket, I used 2 rows of Wheat Stitch.

Books used:

Stitches To Go by Suzanne Howren and Beth Robertson.
The Needlepoint Book by Jo Ippolito Christensen.
from Elegant Stitches by Judith Baker Montano (a dozen pages are dedicated to combination stitches).