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A New Resolution

I have made a resolution to make more geometrics on 18 mesh canvas. I love to make them, I sometimes choose some colors and just start and see where they lead. The whole process is so freeing and creative.

Here is Fireworks which I loved making. If you look carefully at the design, it divides into so many different projects. Here are a few I see:

1. The Center Square

You could make the smaller square, add Nun's Stitch, tilt it so it becomes a diamond-shaped ornament. A small ornament in, I would guess, about an hour's time. Ornament size: 1 3/4"

2. Make the largest square, add Nun's Stitch, tilt it so it becomes a diamond. Ornament size 2 3/4"

3. Notice the heavy blue diagonal lines outside the center squares?

You could stop there, keep it as a diamond-shaped design or tilt it to a square, and you would have a box top. Squared, it is 3 3/4".

4. Notice the third square (there's the inner most, then the next and then a third. You could stop there. Square, 4 3/4".

5. If you want a shaped design, eliminate the outer most corners.

Great use for Stash and color experiments.

I could go on and on, beginning by recombining the elements. If you wish to play, cut up a color photo of the elements and try recombining them in all sorts of ways (this is not my idea, it is an old old design lesson).

Description of Fireworks

The full design for Fireworks is

7 1/2" square on white 18 mesh canvas 12" square.

I used Watercolours, three colors of Pepper Pot, Kreinik braid and ribbon and a stranded silk.

Any threads approximating the weight of my threads would work well and the design could well prove a good Stash Reducer.

The instructions are 17 pages long, plus 3 Oversize Graphs, a title page and a color photo of my finished Fireworks.

Do you recognize Fireworks in Val's iteration of it on the left?

What a wonderful adapation and the main reason for my selling instructions only. Val entered it in Los Angeles County Fair this year and she won a blue ribbon and a judge's choice and she just sent me this photo.