A Teaser..lol

OK...right now I am involved in painting a custom rug from a graph for a great customer...it is on 10st and the graph is coded you know x,/,? for the colors... the graph is all in black and white....and if you don't think that is a B..i..t...c...h.....then clearly you have never done this...anyway when I finish..... that is another blog entry...
Now onto the teaser....It was about this time last year when I finished my first worked Squiggee for a model....never having stitched in any fiber but wool...I was forced to come into the 21st century and explore all the new fibers that I had been hearing about, first hand...over load to put it mildly...now a year later...something has happened to me..and my last project is an example of a regular stitcher run amuck in the limitless land of fibers...
I love to use a new fiber..the harder to work with ,seems to be my thing, because Squiggee i find lends itself to sparkle and since I love the effects of the fibers next to each other...I find that I have gone over to the dark side....like a junkie....but I feel that ,since I am aware of my weakness...and having to spend a large part of my day painting...that I surely will be able to keep a lid on this....and won't have to hid my fiber stash, in pillowcases under the bed and secret shoe boxes tucked in back of the linen closet...at least they aren't gin bottles...
so here we go .. a perfect example a list of the fibers I used on my last project,(the finished canvas is at the finisher)... this list is minus beads and do das that sometimes are part of the Squiggee design...and to be fair this design was worked to attract interest...not the everyday needlepoint...
when the model back from the finisher all will be revealed...
now for the fiber list on this one project...lol...

DMC 4 WHITE
DMC 25 WHITE SNOW 05 FIESTA RED
WATER N' ICE WT1
DMC SATIN FKLOSS S2111..PURPLE
SNOW 17 CARBON
THREADWORX KREINIK FINE 12
DMC PEARLESCENT EFFECTS E5200
KREINIK METALLIC MEDIUM 16 BRAID 01HL
DMC SATIN FLOSS S5200
KREINIK METTALIC MEDIUM 16 094
NEON RAYS N54
NEON RAYS N68
MANDARIN FLOSS M908
KREINIK METALLIC MEDIUM 16 032
KREINIK METALLIC 1/16 RIBBON 105C 10M
SNOW 09 SILVER
RG FUZZY STUFF FZ15
FYRE WERKS FT15
GLITTEROTTI PURPLE
SOIE CISTAL BY CARON 057
KREINIK METTALLICS MEDIUM 16 100
FYRE WERKS SOFT SHEEN FT25

I keep a book, that I list all the fibers I have used on any of the Squiggee models worked..... when I looked at the list for this project, I laughed at myself...I have truly lost all grip on reality.... going back to just wool is not an option...but then I have a whole new realm of wools to explore ......with all the fibers ,textures and sparkles available..I don't know how I would survive a trip to a shop that carries the whole ball of wax...I would probably just faint with the overall spectrum...only coming too ,when a little metallic fiber was used like smelling salts..
now I do not suggest that a stitcher go to such extremes for every project...certainly the canvas and design will dictate what fibers are appropriate...Squiggee designs are fun and for a large part you can go wild and use fibers that clearly would no suite the formal pillow on your linen couch...lol...
anyway...I am having fun...although some of these fibers are hard to work with...i just love looking at my stash for a cheap thrill.....maybe Betty Ford has a wing for me down the way...
at least the fibers are not fattening or carry a disease( discounting my mental condition)..just talking about the fibers , makes me have a rush....I am not to blame, it is the needlepoint community...
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