“Finished” Waffle from Stitch of the Month 2011 – Flowers of Italy by Ro Pace

August 27, 2023, 2:26 pm
Filed under: ANG Main Line Stitchers Chapter, ANG Stitch of the Month, 2011

Between needing the bars for the upcoming EGA Seminar, getting the proper color DMC for cording, and having a free day (thanks to a PGA golf tournament), I was able to do the finishing for the individual motif from Flowers of Italy by Ro Pace, an ANG Stitch of the Month from 2011.

Using the same colored DMC floss as the tent stitch to cinch the 2 sides together.

Heather is leading this piece starting in September. The original was done on Congress Cloth but I will do them on 18 count canvas. I’ll probably do four of them as a unit and the rest as individual ones.

The finishing of the waffle went faster than usual. I stitched 3 rows of tent stitch around the motif. I laced the sides down over a piece of Craf-tex (thanks to to surplus from Linda’s Boutique). I cut the corners a tad to decrease bulk.

I used Scotch Tape Runner, a double-sided tape to hold the backing in place on a second piece of Craf-tex.

The cording was a double cording of matching DMC Perle #3 (thanks to Nanda for picking it up for me).

Again, using the matching colored DMC floss I attached the cording. Perhaps using a thread I can see (as opposed to Sulky invisible thread) made things easier. Or, perhaps that both sides were together before attaching the cording helped decrease the complexity of stitching.

I was worried that the laid threads would get messed up with all that handling but a little careful adjustment fixed a couple of strands that were askew.