March 31, 2024--For its 2024 community project, my needlepoint chapter, Delaware's Seashore Chapter of ANG, is participating in the Hearts for Hospice program and donating the stitched hearts to Delaware Hospice. I chose to stitch a heart designed by Barbara Richardson called Heart of Hearts with instructions published in the 2008, Vol X, 1 issue of Needlepoint Now Magazine.
It proved to be an interesting challenge, especially the "darning" pattern in the center column. It was so complex that I had to draft the stitches on my iPad using the photo editing tool.
I self-finished the heart, and as with other projects, learned a lot, especially the need to make the cording much thicker. However, I didn't have enough floss to make the cord as thick as I wanted, so it's flimsier than desired. But I finally figured out how to "wrap" the cord at the base of the heart to hide where the cord ends are plunged inside the ornament which results in a much neater finish.
Here's the result....
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| Heart of Hearts Finished |
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