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Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 24

By Luzine Happel on 23. December 2023 / Advent Calendar, blog / Leave a comment

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene
The finished Project

Washed, starched and well ironed, the finished embroidery now lies on the table in front of me.

Both as a table runner

and backlit by a lightpad or hanging on the window

the picture has a fantastic effect.

Whether the shepherds with their sheep,

the holy family

or the Wise Men,

all are individually embroidered.

The clothing has very varied filling patterns.

The contrasts between light and dense patterns were brought out well enough, I think.

Look for yourself:

Maybe you embroider a project with the same outlines, but design it with different stitches and filling patterns. Then I would be very happy about a few photos.

Merry Christmas!

Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 23

By Luzine Happel on 22. December 2023 / Advent Calendar, blog, embroideries, tips and tricks / Leave a comment

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene
Robe of the third Wise Man

The garment of the third wise man consists of many small areas. Therefore, the pattern must be appropriate – small and modest in appearance.

Thread withdrawing is made 2:1 and

Diagonal Cross filling stitches (Openwork Pattern Samplers, pages 24, 25) are embroidered into the coat parts.

The dividing lines for the sleeves are embroidered only after the filling pattern has been completed.

The curved-line decorations are embroidered with wrapped Chain stitches (coton à broder No. 25).

In contrast to the airy coat pattern, the scarf should be given a dense pattern. I opt for the Satin stitch pattern “narrow pearl pattern” (Wickelstiche page 43) (coton à broder No. 20).

In the photo, the difference between the two patterns is rather small. After washing, it will look different.

At the end, the remaining unembroidered area of the vessel was filled with tiny Wave stitches (coton à broder No. 25).

With the third wise man, the last figure is also embroidered. Now the project still needs to be hemmed, washed, starched and ironed.

Pictures of the final result will follow.

Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 22

By Luzine Happel on 21. December 2023 / Advent Calendar, blog, embroideries, tips and tricks / Leave a comment

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene
Robe of the second Wise Man

The second wise man is to receive a subtly patterned shirt. For this purpose, simple vertical thread withdrawing 3:1 is made.

Honeycomb Darning stitches are embroidered from the back between the withdrawn threads (coton à broder No. 16).

The cape should have a distinctive pattern. The Limet grid is withdrawn 4:1.

Filling pattern 571 is embroidered in two steps (coton à broder No. 20).

The cuffs of the trousers are embroidered with Satin stitch bars (coton à broder No. 20).

The trousers have a large surface area that offers space for a distinct filling pattern. I decided on a slight modification of filling pattern 448 (coton à broder No. 20). The dividing seam is subsequently attached with wrapped Chain stitches and additional Chain stitches.

The shirt sleeves are given a Honeycomb Darning stitch pattern.

Especially when illuminated at the back, this pattern harmonizes with the back Honeycomb Darning stitches of the shirt.

With the wise man 2, the second-to-last figure is embroidered.

Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 21

By Luzine Happel on 20. December 2023 / Advent Calendar, blog, embroideries, tips and tricks / Leave a comment

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene
Robe of the first Wise Man

The robe of the first Wise Man is relatively easy to embroider, because he wears a simple, one-piece coat, which is supposed to achieve its effect through a magnificent filling pattern.

In order not to have to interrupt the difficult-to-embroider pattern too often, only the outer outlines are embroidered with Coral Knot and Chain stitches.

Thread withdrawing 2:1 is made over the entire shape of the coat.
With coton à broder No. 20 double crosses (Openwork Pattern Samplers, p. 77)

are embroidered in two steps.

At the end, the drapery is set with wrapped Chain stitches (coton à broder No. 16).

The cuffs are filled with Satin stitches (coton à broder No. 16)

and with the wise man 1 the eighth figure is already finished.

Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 20

By Luzine Happel on 19. December 2023 / Advent Calendar, blog, embroideries, tips and tricks / Leave a comment

Advent Calendar 2023 – Nativity Scene
Joseph’s Robe

The sleeves of Joseph’s shirt only have very small areas. Therefore, no thread withdrawing is made, so Chain stitch boundaries can be omitted. When working with filling pattern 571 I noticed that the pattern could look quite attractive even if only the first half was embroidered. So I embroider the Cross stitches (coton à broder No. 20) in this way, but only without thread withdrawing.

The vest should have an openwork pattern. Because of the small area, thread withdrawing is made 2:1.

Some threads are also withdrawn in the area between the hairs. It would have been better to leave these areas without thread withdrawing.

Since I don’t want to weave the threads back in, the area is inevitably filled with filling pattern 147 from Openwork Needleweaving Patterns.

The skirt of the vest also gets a thread withdrawing of 2:1 and

Cable stitches (coton à broder No. 25). A marking thread is withdrawn for the other half of the vest so that the pattern can be worked at the same height later.

Filling pattern 147 from Openwork Needleweaving Patterns is embroidered into the shape.

For the sleeves and collar I want a dense, small Limet pattern, which I found in “Feather Dress” in Limerosen II .

The hat brim is embroidered with geschlossenem Fischgrätenstich (auch geschlossener Federstich genannt) closed herringbone stitch (also called closed feather stitch)??? (Who can help with right translation?) (coton à broder No. 16).

The shirt that looks out of the vest receives the same decoration.

At the end, the hat shape is withdrawn 2:1 and a Rose stitch pattern similar to filling pattern 543 – only with non-staggered rows of Rose stitches – is worked.

The seventh figure, Joseph, is now finished.

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Advent Calendar 2023 – No. 24

Merry Christmas!

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