June 24, 2023--This English Wildflower Basket is a lovely painted canvas project designed by Kirk & Bradley. The stitch guide by Jinny Barney was published in the Needlepoint Now Magazine, 2019 September/October issue. When I ordered the canvas from Needlepoint.com, I ordered the full kit which included the same stitch guide but set up just a bit differently. For example, I just completed the background stitch and noticed the magazine stitch guide graphed it as a "wrap" stitch worked on the diagonal. The stitch guide that came with the kit called for the background stitch to be done using the darning method. Both have their benefits--the wrap method saves thread (this is what I chose to use) while the darning method allows for the shine of the thread to show through from the back (the thread used was RG Silk Lame Braid which is very shiny but doesn't show in the photo).
The painted canvas doesn't have a table upon which the vase would sit, so I didn't bother adding one.
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English Wildflower Basket Background Completed
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I hardly ever work on painted canvases, preferring counted projects instead. However, for a class I was to teach to my ANG chapter on working up silk ribbon flowers on canvas, this design was perfect to use as an example. It was easy to find YouTube videos of the flowers used and they will fill up the canvas beautifully (see the project photo under the tab "Pages" on the right side in the In Process Projects file).
Next up--the wicker basket to be worked up using Straw Silk threads.
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