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Following with another showcase of my second (or rather first) passion

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As my last article entitled ” Showcasing my second (or rather first) passion” received so many compliments (thank you very much) and views (again thank you) and also up-votes (thank you to all the Virilyans) I decided to present another set of my needle and thread crafts. Now I do not want to present myself as a show-off (maybe I am bit) but it is simply because I enjoy doing all these crafts so much that I want to share with this wonderful site that is Virily and all the people who write and share on this site. So get ready, scroll and enjoy (I hope).

Bell pull

This is again a needlepoint effort and it is a bell pull. Bell pulls, I think, originated in the Victorian era and were used to summon servants if I remember well. Just ask Indexer, I am sure he will enlighten you. Again, this took me about 8 months to do and again I worked on it about 19 or 18 years ago. 

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Needlepoint embroidery

This one is an un-finished piece but as you can see it was folded and stored away so it is very wrinkled. I am almost ashamed to showcase. But it features again needlepoint but done not on an aida cloth with hole but rather on a cloth just like an embroidery type needlepoint with also some embroidery stitches mixed with it.

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Bedspread

Now here for the " pièce de résistance " as we say in French. This is a bedspread which I am presently doing with crochet # 10 coton. I have been working on this for about six months and I am approximately 1/3 done. I am thinking of sewing it on a colored sheet so that it will cover the bed perfectly. 

And now that's it , that's all folks. Back to history posting I will go.

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House setting

This is a needlepoint picture that I did about 20 years ago. It is under a picture glass frame, so you cannot really see all the work involved. But just to let you know it took me about a year to finish it and then I had it framed. 

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Close up

This is a close up of one of the squares of the bell pull above. It was realized on an 18 count aida cloth compared to the 14 count aida cloth of the house above. This means that the holes in which you thread the colored thread are much smaller and closer together. 

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  1. Thank you very much. I remember when I was working on it, my eyes were going cross-eyed because the aida count was small. But I managed to work on it only during the daytime with the best natural lighting instead of the evening with artificial lighting.

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    • Oh I am sorry to hear that Vidocka. I think I am very lucky in the fact that even at 64 years old I do not have a hint or a touch of arthritis in my fingers or hands or even anywhere else for that matter. But I just want to thank you very much for your compliment-comment, for your perusing my needlework, for reading and definitely for up voting. I appreciate it very much.

    • Thank you for your compliment. To answer yes it does take a lot of patience to do needlework of just about any kind. Some of them take a few weeks to months to even years to finish. But I enjoy doing them all.

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      • I can relate to you, my friend. I had done a Mona Lisa cross-stitch with 58 colors and it does need more time to finish it. Now, I am enjoying seeing it in my living room.

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        • You should really showcase it here on Virily just like me and other crafters. I would really like to see it. Was it done on a 14 or 18 or 20 count aida cloth? That was a great number of colors. I do not remember how many colors I had in my landscape cross-stitch but I am pretty sure it was not 58 colors.

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          • I will take a picture of it soon, my friend. I am not sure how many counts now. It has been a long that I had created this. I did the half-body and the passport-size. c”,)

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