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Time to start making notes on some of the magazines I buy... New Stitches was one that I wasn't terribly interested in, because it covers all embroidary techniques and I'm really only interested in cross-stitch and blackwork (plus a vague interest in trying hardanger one day), so there wasn't usually enough to make it worth buying the magazine. But over the last few months there has a been a strong focus on those techniques, and even the other articles have been interesting to read as a theoretical study of a technique, so I've been buying it regularly. I picked up the March issue last week, and while I won't stitch any of the designs and intend to pass it straight on to Watervole the next time I see her, I found it well worth the money.
On the theory side, there is a study of the different effects that can be achieved using cross-stitch interspersed with blank squares to fill in a backstitched outline, using an autumn leaf shape. There's also a nice study of using different blackwork patterns over a pale cross-stitch to give different textures to a sheep's fleece, and this is the one that would tempt to me to keep the magazine for later use.
Introduction to a new technique covers silk ribbonwork -- I'd never try this, but it was interesting to read.
The two large patterns are a cross-stitch panel of 7 different coloured irises, which can also be stitched individually, and a blackwork clockface pattern in different colorways. The clockfaces didn't appeal at all, but I liked the irises a lot, and would try them if my stash wasn't already several years' worth.
On the theory side, there is a study of the different effects that can be achieved using cross-stitch interspersed with blank squares to fill in a backstitched outline, using an autumn leaf shape. There's also a nice study of using different blackwork patterns over a pale cross-stitch to give different textures to a sheep's fleece, and this is the one that would tempt to me to keep the magazine for later use.
Introduction to a new technique covers silk ribbonwork -- I'd never try this, but it was interesting to read.
The two large patterns are a cross-stitch panel of 7 different coloured irises, which can also be stitched individually, and a blackwork clockface pattern in different colorways. The clockfaces didn't appeal at all, but I liked the irises a lot, and would try them if my stash wasn't already several years' worth.
