{"id":618,"date":"2012-02-15T18:40:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designneedlepointkits.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:40:44","slug":"an-elegant-finished-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlepaint.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/an-elegant-finished-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"An Elegant Finished Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was cleaning out the attic the other day (I\u00a0 know, it isn’t the time for Spring cleaning, but with3 feet of snow on the ground cleaning the attic sounded like more fun than shoveling the driveway) and I found the original test needlepoint kit<\/a> which we did for Needlepaint.\u00a0 It was languishing away because we hadn’t really thought the end product through. The needlepoint canvas<\/a> was a strange size, 6″ x 7″, so it didn’t fit in a standard frame.<\/p>\n

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By coincidence that colors matched the decor of my granddaughter’s bedroom. It would work on a pillow. My original idea was to use it an an insert, but after looking through my favorite needlepoint book The Needlepoint Book<\/a><\/strong> by Jo Ippolito Christensen, I decided that if I used Jo’s binding technique I would get a finish edge in a contrasting color. The stitch is a variation of the fern stitch that is worked over two threads of the canvas instead of three.<\/p>\n

The Needlepaint<\/a> piece could then be sewn onto the pillow and could then be removed easily if the pillow needed washing.<\/p>\n

TIPS:<\/p>\n