Twilling!

Twilling has been all the rage for awhile now at the LQS (local quilt shop) where I work.  I've been eager to learn this hand embroidery stitch, but at first thought I'd finish all my regular embroidery UFO's first. (Ha!)  Yesterday was the day I finally gave in and got my twilling crash course from Christina, and this morning I finished up this practice piece.  I made this shorter, smaller version of the pattern (one of the Monthly Twillings patterns at the shop) and overall I'm happy with it.  The shop owners would like a sample of twilling on wool, and I have a leftover piece of yellow wool from a sample for the needle nest I made to teach ribbon bobbin work at the shop.

For the yellow wool one, which will be the full size version of the pattern, I think I'll twill the stem instead of doing the stem stitch on it.  The pattern says to do the stem stitch there, but I noticed later that the picture on the cover shows twilling on the stem, and I think that would look better.  I'll show a pic when that's done.  I think I'll just make little wallhangings out of each.

Well, I think I've got this blogging thing down!  Now, time to sew up some BOM (block of the month) samples that are due tomorrow.  Stay tuned...

Thanks for stopping by!
Nan