Filed under: Embroidery Guild of America, Pomegranate Heart by Melissa Sherbring, Seminar 2023 - Boston
It’d been almost 2 weeks since returning from EGA Seminar and I had not stitched on the Pomegranate Heart, the one-day class with Melinda Sherbring.
Glad to say, I picked up easily where I left off with the Ceylon/Ladder stitch.
The pair-wrapped ladder worked up well.
This is a 4-column Crown (working on this upside down). The center rungs got lost until I got to the center pointed tip. Since I’m not sure it would rip out easily, I am leaving it alone.
I’m working with Gold,Silver, and Copper Passing Thread. It is a thin flat metal thread wrapped around silk or cotton. It does fray but wax applied at the end helps. Because these threads are more expensive, Melinda makes up smaller spools for kits to keep costs down. Very considerate but certainly adds kit preparation time. The white spool is a harder plastic tube than the green plastic straw. Each have cuts in the end for anchoring the end of the thread. They would make a great spool for leftover threads.
The Ceylon Circle is a little too small so maybe I should have placed the framework stitches further out. I only looped around twice, and I think Melinda got around 3 times. Oh well!
The Corded Lark’s Head Filling offset stitch was tricky – going down and over, up under, and down and under repeated. Working with a magnifying glass didn’t help much. Then, I realized that my tension was probably too tight. Looser thread and the magnifying glass made working the bottom half go easier. So, you can see it is a little denser on the upper half. Again, I am leaving it alone.
It’s kind of slow going because I can only stitch with the magnifying glass so long.
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