Needle and ThREAD

Bookmark Design

How are those bookmark designs coming for the X’s and Oh’s / Needle Pulling Thread contest coming? Entries must be received before June 15, and this is Canada we’re talking about, so it might be wise to allow a couple of extra days for the mail. Jo (X’s and Oh’s owner) is exceedingly generous, but a deadline is a deadline!

And speaking of bookmark designs, my June bookmark design for the Ducharme Challenge is another pocket bookmark.

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It’s the subject of the June Needlework Nutshell. If you want to learn more about it, and you’re not a subscriber (subscription box in the sidebar), you can visit the Nutshell archives.

Would you believe I’m still working on the May DNA bookmark? I’ve tried different lengths, and I experimented with gluing the ground fibers around the edge prior to stitching. While not essential, it probably makes the end product more bullet-proof. I think it’s too much of a hassle for many stitchers, though, so I won’t recommend it in the instructions.

Next, I’m going to try stiffening one with spray fabric stiffener. Also not essential–it holds its natural twist very well–but I want to see the result. And, finally (unless I think of something else), I want to iron and perhaps starch or stiffen one flat just to show that alternative. Or I could try alternating the direction of the twists in the center which might eliminate the twist naturally.

Oh…and I might try one on a different fabric.

Is it any wonder I’m the slowest needlework designer in the world?

So far, Becca and Kunni are the only readers to join me in accepting the stitch-a-bookmark-a-month Ducharme Challenge. Yay, Becca and Kunni! Any other takers?

What–are you chicken? Bwaak-BwaAK!

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