Another really informative episode, and I loved seeing the illustrations on your books. I’ve never been to Sweden yet, but I also recall seeing delightful textiles in the national museums of Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhague. I also adore the white/red combination in antique quilts, they are beautiful. For anyone interested in art, i guess it is difficult to pick just one artist. Some of my favourites are John Singer Sargent, the pre-Raphaelites and the Japanese Ukiyo-e school, specially Utamaro and Hokusai. I love the great wave. It totally fascinates me the way that folds of fabric and different fashions and accessories are painted by different artists. Specially the Japanese, I could be entertained for hours looking at the detail with which they paint the patterns in the fabrics
You're making such an interesting point Tere! Yes, fabrics are fascinating: from the ultra-realistic (Van Dyck was a master in giving the illusion of different materials in his work), to completely flat but intricate in woodblock prints. I saw a whole great deal of stunning woodblock cuts just a few days ago when I went to the Übersee Museum in Bremen: in their open archive they have cupboards that you can go through and it is very fascinating. Their display of their collection downstairs is really interesting as well! :)
Thank you for that recommendation, I’m starting to travel again, and that is not too far. Would you believe it? I have a heading in my NoteMaster app as “Jacob recommends”😂🤣
Hello Dear Jacob ~ yet another wonderful Vlogmas visit ! Thank you. Pointillism !!!! When I first laid Eyes on Seurat's Phenomenal ' Sunday on the Island of the Grand Jatte ' in 6th or 7th grade, I was So Completely Awestruck. To know that tiny, yet distinct dots could blur into an image, captivated, intrigued, and utterly delighted me. I also love the piece, ' The Evening Air ' by Henri-Edmund Cross. Coined ' Pointillism ' by then 1810's art critics as a ridicule of this art expression, then became quite admired. And Jacob, like our computers screens of today !!! , Pixels on the screen resembling dots blurring into the image you see.....just as those on pointillism paintings in 1880's !!!!!!. THAT is astounding in and of itself ! next... Cross Stitch Pointillism ...... hmmmmmmmmmm ( ^ ; * ) Look forward to your next visit. xo marcia
Haha! Yes, pointilism is fantastic in deed. Seurat's work is beautiful. I love how artists like Van Gogh admired the 'dots' but wanted something more expressive and that created that distinct style in a way. HAED pieces are pretty pointilistic in a way I guess.... :D.
I have no set style as I love all things “needlework” from the finest cross stitch samplers old and new to the most primitive of wool appliqué. All makes my heart sing. Each stitch. Thank you for sharing with us Jacob…maybe 2023 is your year to start that red on white curtain. 😀
I love all artist that add to the world's beauty, my grandmother's family was from Sweden and were the tailors to the king of Sweden. I learned to weave but not from my grandmother but she was fantastic at making clothes you could pick the sleeve from one dress, the bodes from another and the skirt from another and she could go home draw it off and sew whatever you wanted. I didn't know until recently that she did sew alot of my dresses. My family was a bit fragmented and I learned it from my half sister.
Goedemorgen Jacob, I could never narrow it down to one person or style. I lived in Stockholm and loved Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. But I also love the incredible paintings of John William Waterhouse. Our Dutch masters are amazing. Perhaps if you said I could pick only one, it would have to be William Morris!! Everything about his ideas and vision touch me deeply. His designs are amazing and still current today. His furniture is beautiful. His drawings that have been made into all range of things including embroidery. I am fascinated by the Middle Ages so perhaps that is part of why I am drawn to William Morris. He encompasses the romance of the Middle Ages with some Dutch sensibility thrown in.
It's a tough one isn't it! Love William Morris also - when I lived in England there was so much stuff there. His "The Red House" in Bexleyheath, London, is such a perfect example of his work and the whole idea of that Art-and-Craft movement. It's also strangely modern, when you see it in comparison to the overstuffed Victorian homes of the time! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery His ideas were far beyond his time. He believed in a lifestyle of handmade quality and connecting to nature that is so appropriate for our current times.
My favorite painter is French painter James Tissot, 1836-1902. His depictions of scenes from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament are so stunning to me, the realism is just so amazing. especially after growing up with the "pious" pictures I had grown up with. It's a dream of mine to see one in person. thanks so much for all the work the team put in to this SAL...terri
I am just now learning about Slovakian/Eastern European style embroidery. My mom embroidered and she taught me when I was a child, but I never asked who she learned it from. Her mother, my grandmother, crocheted and would make bedspreads, tablecloths, doilies, etc., out of white thread and she was unable to read a pattern. She would just look at the finished product and figure it out. I taught myself to crochet as an adult so I guess I am carrying on both traditions.
That's really cool Kim - I think most crafters just "looked" and "learned", and didn't use a lot of patterns. As long as the basic technique is known, it doesn't matter too much, as long as it looks good and resembles what you set out to make. :)
Hi there. Next year's plans for me include doing M. Bell in a scrumptious red. Will post updates on Instagram. My favorite embroidery is free hand surface embroidery. I can not do it but I had two aunts that did that for a living. People would order the entire 'canastilla" for when a baby was going to be born, so I grew up among sweet little baby garments that were sort of 'quilted' in pique by them. That was the Cuba of the 1960s. My aunts have passed away and when I left the island in 1974 I was not allowed to take any of their treasures. Now you can't even find the materials! Anyway, thanks for your videos. I may not always comment but I do watch them!
Thank you for that memory Lulu - that was very moving....! It's never too late to learn a new technique, I'm definitely going to try my hand at some free hand embroidery in the future! :)
My favorite artist is Albert Bierstadt. He was a German-American artist who painted landscapes of the American West. I love the way he captured the land so beautifully and portrayed light. I also like the work of Charlie Russell, who 's paintings depicted the west at around the same time but focused more on the people.
I love Danish cross stitch. Their designs are timeless. I have recently stitched a pattern from 1960 but you would not know that as it is not " trendy " but classic.
I very much like the Northern/Scandinavian designs and their homely, cosy use around the home. I have had a book for many years by Katrin Cargill which is packed full of stunning designs in traditional reds and blues ( curtains/bed linen/table linen/crib cover). I don’t know if you have ever seen it, it’s called Traditional Needle Arts : Cross stitch. To my shame I have not yet attempted a project but from time to time I like to take time to thumb through it whilst having a coffee. It’s still available on the second hand book market and Amazon for just a few pounds. It’s worth a look if you come across it.
Thank you Jean! I don't have the Katrin Cargill book but it looks quite wonderful. It's okay not to work from a book and just enjoy it - I've got so many books just like that! :)
I love these little videos. I finally found cross stitching after years of other textile crafts and beading. It took a few months before I found MFE and now I feel I've found something I will stay with (altho maybe not monogamously). I'm stitching the quaker motifs in M. Bell & especially love how the little patterns within the motifs show as each motif is stitched. I never quite see the detail when looking at the pattern so each motif comes as a lovely little surprise. Also, my first few months of cross stitching were spent with a HAED which gradually became very tiresome. Love the simplicity of 1 color.
Thank you so much Rose, that's wonderful to read! Yes, stitching monochromatic is so much more enjoyable (for me at least) than having a hundred colours, doing two stitches and then getting a new colour again... I don't think I'm cut out for that! :D.
Thank you Freda! Stumpwork is very cool. There was a stunning Tudor style stumpwork "fruitbowl" in a museum in York. They had some other examples there as well - I was always quite fascinated by how extremely 3D these pieces were!
I love the red and white Swedish embroidery most of all. I was fortunate to find cross stitched (red on white) curtains at a garage sale a few years ago for $3.00 (U.S.) and I'm using them as a starting point for creating a cozy little work room. Red and white are such happy colors. Another inspiring episode, thank you!
Thanks you Jacob for sharing your lovely art books…I like the styles coming from Williamsburg, Virginia…those come from many European countries…wishing you well and happy stitching ❤
I love and appreciate so many artists and their respective styles, but I keep returning to the Arts and Crafts movement. I love the furniture, architecture, ceramics, wallpapers…. It just feels classic and homely to me. My favorites are Sweden’s Carl Larsson and Scotland’s Rennie Mackintosh as well as the ubiquitous William Morris. Thank you for sharing your favorites with us. Take care, Sally in Northern California 😁
Thank you Sally! Yea - the Arts and Crafts movement is very dear to me too. We had a similar movement here in the Netherlands, and I own a really gorgeous oak chair that is only occupied by one of my cats as it is in dire need of new upholstery and fixing of the spring seating. The woodwork is stunning though and the very reason I bought it! :P
I think I have too many artists to mention. For styles I love Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement; their interpretation of nature is beautiful. I enjoy Mannerism. It was a game in college to look for the odd details that the period was known for in their paintings: elongated necks, random missing limbs, etc. For embroidery, I love Scotland. Mainly the colors and the importance of family on samplers. Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome - and love your favourites. The mannerist school was (like Van Dyck) not my favourite but I have learned to appreciate it so much more. Love El Greco, and he was one of the first that pulled me in that direction :).
I love a lot of embroidery, 2 of them is glazig that is from Quimper and the other one is called Viking embroidery that is from the tapestry of Bayeux, really easy and fun to do.
My very first cross stitch at my grandmother's knee was a red thread on a white pillowcase! Dearly loved it and I guess that started my love of Blackwork. I do enjoy a bit of Swedish embroidery and love doing Quaker motifs.
I lived in Cyprus for a while...way back. They have something called "Levkera Lace". I think it was an Hardanger type of embroidery brought over during Venetian colonization the 1500s.
Oh I'd not heard of that but it definitely looks like Hardanger indeed! Very likely that the Venetians brought it over - their books on embroidery were very influential all over the western world at one point!
Hahahaha! Thank you Kate :D. Morris is fantastic, and how magical is Rousseau's art! Saw his Tiger in a Tropical Storm some months ago in London again and it always captivates me :)
Beautiful! I love your sense of humor. I have found really old filet crochet patterns on the Internet - mostly animals - and have used these patterns to do cross stitch on material. 🙂
Good morning Jacob , Enjoyed your book chat this morning 🎄 I love crewel embroidery and I think you would love Ingrid Eggimann Jonsson 's embroidery books .
Hi Jacob, loved looking at a selection of your 📚. Portuguese stitching crafts are dear to my ❤️ inspiring to look at cultural traditions of other countries, regions. From the embroideries of Mary 👑 of Scotts, artisan crafters to the samplers of school girls. History in the making. 💕 Your videos & your style.
What beautiful books. I am always in awe of what some stitchers can accomplish with just a needle and some threads while I am struggling to just consistently make decent Xs. Thank you for sharing.
@@maryanncarl646 You won't! Just start by stitching a horizontal dash every ten crosses (just a backstitch over 2 threads) along the full design - once you've done this and it matches up, you know exactly that you've counted correctly. Then you can start planning the whole design much more easily as you've got the "TEN" indicators on the edge. From there, you can just work motif after motif as it's shown in the chart and you don't have to worry at all. And if you make a mistake? I do it all the time - make it purposeful by either repeating the mistake on the other side, or leave it in. If it really bothers you, unpick it but don't be disheartened by it: we all make mistakes constantly! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery If I am understanding you correctly what you're describing is a form of gridding. I'll certainly give it a try. In my current project, a few of the smaller motifs are off a little but no one looking at the piece would ever know it so I'm going to leave them. I am auditioning colors today for your 2023 SAL. They are similar to what you've chosen but I'm going to try Cosmo floss because I haven't been happy with DMC. (I can't afford what your using and the Cosmo seems a nice compromise. I hope it is.) My biggest concern is coverage because I want to stitch with one thread because I get a better look to my stitching. Hopefully, when I get more experience I will do two threads. I can't thank you enough for all your advice. I know how busy you are. Take care and I look forward to your next video.
@@maryanncarl646 No worries at all! I love stitching with one thread - it doesn't give "full coverage" on a lot of linens (( love it from 36 up especially). But there's something really beautiful and folksy about using only one strand and seeing your crosses as a little X. It really is not a bad thing - many antique embroideries have this very same feature! It wasn't until folks started making full cover pieces / tapestry pieces that the coverage mattered. On samplers, it never really matters :).
I think the problem you are having with your camera focusing is because the christmas tree lights blink. Everytime they blink the video goes out of focus. I just got my 2023 mfe project! Cant wait to begin.
That's good to hear Sheila! The lights on the tree actually don't blink - it's the focus that makes it look like they're blinking :D Unless you're sat properly bang in the middle, a camera will try and focus on what it sees as the most important thing :)
Since I began needlework I was drawn to red on white....clearly the Swedish influence from my mother's side. This was an informative joy, Jacob. Tack!!
Another really informative episode, and I loved seeing the illustrations on your books. I’ve never been to Sweden yet, but I also recall seeing delightful textiles in the national museums of Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhague. I also adore the white/red combination in antique quilts, they are beautiful. For anyone interested in art, i guess it is difficult to pick just one artist. Some of my favourites are John Singer Sargent, the pre-Raphaelites and the Japanese Ukiyo-e school, specially Utamaro and Hokusai. I love the great wave. It totally fascinates me the way that folds of fabric and different fashions and accessories are painted by different artists. Specially the Japanese, I could be entertained for hours looking at the detail with which they paint the patterns in the fabrics
You're making such an interesting point Tere! Yes, fabrics are fascinating: from the ultra-realistic (Van Dyck was a master in giving the illusion of different materials in his work), to completely flat but intricate in woodblock prints. I saw a whole great deal of stunning woodblock cuts just a few days ago when I went to the Übersee Museum in Bremen: in their open archive they have cupboards that you can go through and it is very fascinating. Their display of their collection downstairs is really interesting as well! :)
Thank you for that recommendation, I’m starting to travel again, and that is not too far. Would you believe it? I have a heading in my NoteMaster app as “Jacob recommends”😂🤣
@@teremazon6109 Haha perfect Tere, that's awesome :D. Enjoy!!!!
I loved this video...i too love Scandinavian design and your design in particular...cant wait to order a project!♡
Thank you Peggy! :)
Hello Dear Jacob ~ yet another wonderful Vlogmas visit ! Thank you. Pointillism !!!! When I first laid Eyes on Seurat's Phenomenal ' Sunday on the Island of the Grand Jatte ' in 6th or 7th grade, I was So Completely Awestruck. To know that tiny, yet distinct dots could blur into an image, captivated, intrigued, and utterly delighted me. I also love the piece, ' The Evening Air ' by Henri-Edmund Cross. Coined ' Pointillism ' by then 1810's art critics as a ridicule of this art expression, then became quite admired. And Jacob, like our computers screens of today !!! , Pixels on the screen resembling dots blurring into the image you see.....just as those on pointillism paintings in 1880's !!!!!!. THAT is astounding in and of itself ! next... Cross Stitch Pointillism ...... hmmmmmmmmmm ( ^ ; * ) Look forward to your next visit. xo marcia
Haha! Yes, pointilism is fantastic in deed. Seurat's work is beautiful. I love how artists like Van Gogh admired the 'dots' but wanted something more expressive and that created that distinct style in a way. HAED pieces are pretty pointilistic in a way I guess.... :D.
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery Indeed ~ ( ^ ; * )
I have no set style as I love all things “needlework” from the finest cross stitch samplers old and new to the most primitive of wool appliqué. All makes my heart sing. Each stitch. Thank you for sharing with us Jacob…maybe 2023 is your year to start that red on white curtain. 😀
Thank you so much Cheryl - and who knows, it might just be the year! :D
I love all artist that add to the world's beauty, my grandmother's family was from Sweden and were the tailors to the king of Sweden. I learned to weave but not from my grandmother but she was fantastic at making clothes you could pick the sleeve from one dress, the bodes from another and the skirt from another and she could go home draw it off and sew whatever you wanted. I didn't know until recently that she did sew alot of my dresses. My family was a bit fragmented and I learned it from my half sister.
That's really cool! It's one craft skill that I really want to learn - draw and sew your own clothes! :)
Thanks for the show Jacob.
You're welcome Hanna!
Goedemorgen Jacob,
I could never narrow it down to one person or style. I lived in Stockholm and loved Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn. But I also love the incredible paintings of John William Waterhouse. Our Dutch masters are amazing. Perhaps if you said I could pick only one, it would have to be William Morris!! Everything about his ideas and vision touch me deeply. His designs are amazing and still current today. His furniture is beautiful. His drawings that have been made into all range of things including embroidery. I am fascinated by the Middle Ages so perhaps that is part of why I am drawn to William Morris. He encompasses the romance of the Middle Ages with some Dutch sensibility thrown in.
It's a tough one isn't it! Love William Morris also - when I lived in England there was so much stuff there. His "The Red House" in Bexleyheath, London, is such a perfect example of his work and the whole idea of that Art-and-Craft movement. It's also strangely modern, when you see it in comparison to the overstuffed Victorian homes of the time! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery His ideas were far beyond his time. He believed in a lifestyle of handmade quality and connecting to nature that is so appropriate for our current times.
My favorite painter is French painter James Tissot, 1836-1902. His depictions of scenes from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament are so stunning to me, the realism is just so amazing. especially after growing up with the "pious" pictures I had grown up with. It's a dream of mine to see one in person. thanks so much for all the work the team put in to this SAL...terri
Thank you Terri! I need to look up Tissot's work - I think I've seen some in museums as the name definitely rings a bell! :)
I am just now learning about Slovakian/Eastern European style embroidery. My mom embroidered and she taught me when I was a child, but I never asked who she learned it from. Her mother, my grandmother, crocheted and would make bedspreads, tablecloths, doilies, etc., out of white thread and she was unable to read a pattern. She would just look at the finished product and figure it out. I taught myself to crochet as an adult so I guess I am carrying on both traditions.
That's really cool Kim - I think most crafters just "looked" and "learned", and didn't use a lot of patterns. As long as the basic technique is known, it doesn't matter too much, as long as it looks good and resembles what you set out to make. :)
My favoriete painter artists are Hendrick Averkamp and Helmantel. For other arts three are just too many that I love. Thanks for sharing
Avercamp sure is appropriate for this time of year - such atmospheric landscapes! :)
Thanks as always
You're welcome! :)
Hi there. Next year's plans for me include doing M. Bell in a scrumptious red. Will post updates on Instagram. My favorite embroidery is free hand surface embroidery. I can not do it but I had two aunts that did that for a living. People would order the entire 'canastilla" for when a baby was going to be born, so I grew up among sweet little baby garments that were sort of 'quilted' in pique by them. That was the Cuba of the 1960s. My aunts have passed away and when I left the island in 1974 I was not allowed to take any of their treasures. Now you can't even find the materials! Anyway, thanks for your videos. I may not always comment but I do watch them!
Thank you for that memory Lulu - that was very moving....! It's never too late to learn a new technique, I'm definitely going to try my hand at some free hand embroidery in the future! :)
My favorite artist is Albert Bierstadt. He was a German-American artist who painted landscapes of the American West. I love the way he captured the land so beautifully and portrayed light. I also like the work of Charlie Russell, who 's paintings depicted the west at around the same time but focused more on the people.
I don't know either of these, will have to look 'em up! :)
I love Danish cross stitch. Their designs are timeless. I have recently stitched a pattern from 1960 but you would not know that
as it is not " trendy " but classic.
Yep, that's the great thing about folk art isn't it - it just remains timeless! :)
I very much like the Northern/Scandinavian designs and their homely, cosy use around the home. I have had a book for many years by Katrin Cargill which is packed full of stunning designs in traditional reds and blues ( curtains/bed linen/table linen/crib cover). I don’t know if you have ever seen it, it’s called Traditional Needle Arts : Cross stitch. To my shame I have not yet attempted a project but from time to time I like to take time to thumb through it whilst having a coffee. It’s still available on the second hand book market and Amazon for just a few pounds. It’s worth a look if you come across it.
Thank you Jean! I don't have the Katrin Cargill book but it looks quite wonderful. It's okay not to work from a book and just enjoy it - I've got so many books just like that! :)
I love these little videos. I finally found cross stitching after years of other textile crafts and beading. It took a few months before I found MFE and now I feel I've found something I will stay with (altho maybe not monogamously). I'm stitching the quaker motifs in M. Bell & especially love how the little patterns within the motifs show as each motif is stitched. I never quite see the detail when looking at the pattern so each motif comes as a lovely little surprise. Also, my first few months of cross stitching were spent with a HAED which gradually became very tiresome. Love the simplicity of 1 color.
Thank you so much Rose, that's wonderful to read! Yes, stitching monochromatic is so much more enjoyable (for me at least) than having a hundred colours, doing two stitches and then getting a new colour again... I don't think I'm cut out for that! :D.
Thankyou Jacob for another wonderful Xmas post
I took love van Dyke ❤
And love your musical posts
Thank you so much Linda - glad you're enjoying these! :)
Another interesting and informative episode, I’m really enjoying watching these over breakfast. I love stumpwork.
Thank you Freda! Stumpwork is very cool. There was a stunning Tudor style stumpwork "fruitbowl" in a museum in York. They had some other examples there as well - I was always quite fascinated by how extremely 3D these pieces were!
I love the red and white Swedish embroidery most of all. I was fortunate to find cross stitched (red on white) curtains at a garage sale a few years ago for $3.00 (U.S.) and I'm using them as a starting point for creating a cozy little work room. Red and white are such happy colors.
Another inspiring episode, thank you!
They are indeed! We once holidayed in a little home that was all wood, and red and white. It felt very Scandinavian and it was a super cozy place :)
Thank you for sharing your lovely books. Love Swedish embroidery as well
Thank you Ida! :)
Thanks you Jacob for sharing your lovely art books…I like the styles coming from Williamsburg, Virginia…those come from many European countries…wishing you well and happy stitching ❤
I love and appreciate so many artists and their respective styles, but I keep returning to the Arts and Crafts movement. I love the furniture, architecture, ceramics, wallpapers…. It just feels classic and homely to me. My favorites are Sweden’s Carl Larsson and Scotland’s Rennie Mackintosh as well as the ubiquitous William Morris. Thank you for sharing your favorites with us. Take care, Sally in Northern California 😁
Thank you Sally! Yea - the Arts and Crafts movement is very dear to me too. We had a similar movement here in the Netherlands, and I own a really gorgeous oak chair that is only occupied by one of my cats as it is in dire need of new upholstery and fixing of the spring seating. The woodwork is stunning though and the very reason I bought it! :P
I think I have too many artists to mention. For styles I love Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement; their interpretation of nature is beautiful.
I enjoy Mannerism. It was a game in college to look for the odd details that the period was known for in their paintings: elongated necks, random missing limbs, etc.
For embroidery, I love Scotland. Mainly the colors and the importance of family on samplers.
Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome - and love your favourites. The mannerist school was (like Van Dyck) not my favourite but I have learned to appreciate it so much more. Love El Greco, and he was one of the first that pulled me in that direction :).
Another interesting episode. I shall have to take a look at some of the types of things you mentioned.
I love a lot of embroidery, 2 of them is glazig that is from Quimper and the other one is called Viking embroidery that is from the tapestry of Bayeux, really easy and fun to do.
Oh how interesting Suzanne, I hadn't heard of the Quimper Glazig embroidery but have just looked it up. Stunning!
Thank you for yet another lovely episode. I love this kind of information. Visiting Scandinavia is definitely on my to do list!
Thank you! :)
Not an embroidery artist, but my favorite is Giuseppe Arcimboldo. His work would make for a very challenging cross stitch project 😊
He's fantastic!
My very first cross stitch at my grandmother's knee was a red thread on a white pillowcase! Dearly loved it and I guess that started my love of Blackwork. I do enjoy a bit of Swedish embroidery and love doing Quaker motifs.
That's a beautiful memory - thank you for sharing! :)
🎄🎄💚💚
I lived in Cyprus for a while...way back. They have something called "Levkera Lace". I think it was an Hardanger type of embroidery brought over during Venetian colonization the 1500s.
Oh I'd not heard of that but it definitely looks like Hardanger indeed! Very likely that the Venetians brought it over - their books on embroidery were very influential all over the western world at one point!
If I had to really pinpoint my favourite folklore style it would be MFE. Its true. Ok - and I'm a huge fan of William Morris - and Henri Rousseau.
Hahahaha! Thank you Kate :D. Morris is fantastic, and how magical is Rousseau's art! Saw his Tiger in a Tropical Storm some months ago in London again and it always captivates me :)
Beautiful! I love your sense of humor. I have found really old filet crochet patterns on the Internet - mostly animals - and have used these patterns to do cross stitch on material. 🙂
Hehe thank you Louise! Yea, those patters are great and very adaptable! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery Maybe I'll send you a pic of one but I'm not sure how to do that... Thx.
Good morning Jacob , Enjoyed your book chat this morning 🎄 I love crewel embroidery and I think you would love Ingrid Eggimann Jonsson 's embroidery books .
Thank you Daisy! I've heard of Ingrid but don't have books by her - yet... that'll change soon enough I guess! :)
Hi Jacob, loved looking at a selection of your 📚. Portuguese stitching crafts are dear to my ❤️ inspiring to look at cultural traditions of other countries, regions. From the embroideries of Mary 👑 of Scotts, artisan crafters to the samplers of school girls. History in the making. 💕 Your videos & your style.
Thank you so much Bev! :)
Gosh that sent me down a rabbit hole looking at Swedish embroidery!! Stunning. Thank you for sharing your books with us today. 😍
Thank you Fee, glad you enjoyed it! :)
What beautiful books. I am always in awe of what some stitchers can accomplish with just a needle and some threads while I am struggling to just consistently make decent Xs. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Mary Ann! You're capable of a lot more than you think - I believe most stitchers underestimate what they can actually achieve! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery I hope you're right. I do so want the 2023 SAL to come out OK. It's so beautiful I don't want to spoil it.
@@maryanncarl646 You won't! Just start by stitching a horizontal dash every ten crosses (just a backstitch over 2 threads) along the full design - once you've done this and it matches up, you know exactly that you've counted correctly. Then you can start planning the whole design much more easily as you've got the "TEN" indicators on the edge. From there, you can just work motif after motif as it's shown in the chart and you don't have to worry at all. And if you make a mistake? I do it all the time - make it purposeful by either repeating the mistake on the other side, or leave it in. If it really bothers you, unpick it but don't be disheartened by it: we all make mistakes constantly! :)
@@ModernFolkEmbroidery If I am understanding you correctly what you're describing is a form of gridding. I'll certainly give it a try. In my current project, a few of the smaller motifs are off a little but no one looking at the piece would ever know it so I'm going to leave them. I am auditioning colors today for your 2023 SAL. They are similar to what you've chosen but I'm going to try Cosmo floss because I haven't been happy with DMC. (I can't afford what your using and the Cosmo seems a nice compromise. I hope it is.) My biggest concern is coverage because I want to stitch with one thread because I get a better look to my stitching. Hopefully, when I get more experience I will do two threads. I can't thank you enough for all your advice. I know how busy you are. Take care and I look forward to your next video.
@@maryanncarl646 No worries at all! I love stitching with one thread - it doesn't give "full coverage" on a lot of linens (( love it from 36 up especially). But there's something really beautiful and folksy about using only one strand and seeing your crosses as a little X. It really is not a bad thing - many antique embroideries have this very same feature! It wasn't until folks started making full cover pieces / tapestry pieces that the coverage mattered. On samplers, it never really matters :).
I think the problem you are having with your camera focusing is because the christmas tree lights blink. Everytime they blink the video goes out of focus. I just got my 2023 mfe project! Cant wait to begin.
That's good to hear Sheila! The lights on the tree actually don't blink - it's the focus that makes it look like they're blinking :D Unless you're sat properly bang in the middle, a camera will try and focus on what it sees as the most important thing :)
Since I began needlework I was drawn to red on white....clearly the Swedish influence from my mother's side. This was an informative joy, Jacob. Tack!!
:D Varsågod! :D
Unfortunately, your focus is still not "steady" and it comes in and out. Still an interesting video. Thank you.
That's autofocus unfortunately - it's a lot better than the other video though! :)
Never stop posting! I love this channel!!!! The secret to success - "Promosm".