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g tangled fiber thoughts string or nothing tangled fiber thoughts about categories embroidery patterns gallery int nl glossary knitting patterns my books sal tutorials yarn reviews still working on it by kbsalazar on july 15 2026 1 comment apologies that time seems to run ahead between these posts i have only so many hours of comfortable productive sitting time each day and i tend to spend them actually stitching drafting redacting new designs and working on my books blogging often gets ignored but that doesn t mean i ve been idle far from it i finished those two strips at the bottom of the anything could happen sampler the one honoring the hungry judges book by my resident male itself still being written too laying the roller bars out flat in the early morning light accounts for the shadows and non parallel edges in any case two things remain two panels at the top one of which will be a duplicate of the blue one at the very bottom and devising the little motifs that go at either end of the motto lines once i ve identified those drawn them up and stitched them i can work the yellow step voiding around them i can say that one of those spaces will hold my initials and the year of completion which brings us to the top panel what to put there i wanted to continue with my theme of panels from the azemmour cluster paired birds are very common i wrote about them a while back in this post in the larger examples they usually face each other from either side of an urn that sports three plants or flowers there s also often a house like structure with small resident creatures as the unit in between the pairs of birds but those things aren t set in stone sometimes trees appear or other birds of various sizes but one thing all of the bird panels big enough to bear it have and that s lots of chaff filling the main motifs smaller ones often have a token bit of filling too but sometimes they are just the bird outlines with a tree or flower in between them not quite as rounded and with fewer diagonal stitches than the paired bird panels of early modelbooks but slightly echoic of them none the less sadly they also tend to be of two sizes either way too small north south to fill my available space or about a third to twice again as tall as the area i have to put them in so since i wanted birds i had to draft up my own i took inspiration from several of the bird strips in the prior post and tried to incorporate as much as i could of their iconography and general look and feel so armed with my interpretation of the birds i begin the top with that central urn this strip will be voided in non traditional purple to balance out the purple of the monsters strip a departure but true to the spirit of the design family and i hope seen as a respectful tribute to the long standing tradition of azemmour embroidery share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on mastodon opens in new window mastodon share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading posted in blackwork sampler hungry judges tagged azemmour blackwork embroidery voided work catching up again by kbsalazar on june 11 2026 6 comments it has been a while since the last post but i keep going after all i have a reputation for stubborn persistence to uphold first here s a shot of the whole anything could happen sampler unrolled as it was just before i began the current strip a few things to note first there is much less room remaining at top and bottom that needs to be filled in fact i have shorted myself i should have chosen narrower strips than the pomegranate meander and the strange monsters band i still intend to work a full width strip above and below what s there plus a narrower matching border as the final top and bottom framing mechanism probably in blue that means i will go over my basted edge lines i may even have to finish with a hand hoop because i will run out of real estate for the flat frame by the time i get to those final edgings second the yellow step voiding behind the lettering still doesn t reach all the way to the side edges right now that s on purpose the piece is a tribute to the science fiction book currently being written by my resident male those areas on either side of the motto lines are small but they are big enough to contain a custom motif or two directly relating to book content and i might use one or two of them as signature or date blocks in either case i will be drawing up new content and won t fill in the background yellow until the foreground material has been completed third that rippled left edge that s an artifact of doing something wrong i had this happen once before but not for many years i hand hem my edges occasionally i get lazy and leave the selvedge edge unhemmed a big mistake that means that the left and right edges of the piece have different stretch potential hemming limiting stretch more than the native woven bolt edge when that happens distortion stretching and fraying can occur when i frame the piece with fabric as a hanging scroll i will take pains to do it in a manner that covers up those flaws nothing else i can do about it until then and now we get to the part that you want to see the latest strip this one is a play on the spider flower i ve discussed here before there are many iterations of this azemmour cluster design i included a chart normed from multiple repeats of one of them in my s econd carolingian modelbook as plate 33 4 this one is being done in black and cranberry but a bit differently from the obviously related pomegranate meander i used earlier second carolingian modelbook plate 34 1 for one i am now sure that i will have enough thread to do a properly cushy rendition of long armed cross stitch using two plies of the au ver a soie soie d alger gives the proper well filled plaited look to the ground i have also gotten a bit better at splitting and re spinning the tied to history allori reeled silk so the black lines are more uniform in appearance always fun to pick up a new skill these designs are both fast and slow to work up slower than many double running stitch strips because of all of those little disassociated filling bits that make up the decorative chaff inhabiting the foreground but faster than many others due to the simple nature of the outlines themselves i admit that chaff is a pain in the neck to do impossible to terminate individually due to their small size and scattered placement and annoying to path plan while minimizing skips but again i m stubborn beyond words one reason i had put off playing with this pattern family for so long was dealing with the chaff no longer health update obviously i have weathered the latest round of surgery the last procedure to shave down my cranial chordoma manifestation was quite lengthy over 21 hours but it was as effective as it could have been given the delicate location and nature of the beast getting most of it means there are leftovers that will be addressed via an aggressive program of proton and photon radiation so next week it s back to daily visits to rad therapy for the better part of a month and a half i can say that i continue to improve on a daily basis right after surgery i was particularly discreditable a massive black eye that looked like a boxing souvenir for starters lots of other swelling and seam like scars just inside my hairline double vision at distance when i could peek at the world with two eyes and with the swollen right side of my face the eye being squeezed tightly i couldn t open it little to no useful vision on the right now i look mostly normal stitches are all out the bruising and most of the swelling is gone zero cognitive effects no headaches no balance or hearing issues i ve kicked the double vision and the right eye s useful productivity has returned to my nearsighted normal which explains why i was able to finish the monsters and start on the new strip my continuing physical improvement challenge is to rebuild strength and mobility i can get around the house but slowly but am not quite in the shape to do all the simple chores like gardening i was able to accomplish just a month ago again stubbornness works in my favor i refuse to be defined by what i can no longer do so every day i work towards making that list just a bit shorter share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on mastodon opens in new window mastodon share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky like loading posted in blackwork sampler hungry judges the big fight tagged azemmour blackwork embroidery counted thread embroidery embroidery history voided embroidery more progress and mailbox questions by kbsalazar on may 21 2026 3 comments as you can see i am keeping busy i started the yellow double running step voiding behind the lower half of the motto as promised i will alternate between that ultra speedy fill and the long armed cross stitch lacs behind my monsters just for the variety of doing so but the lacs is not going to be done quickly too many nooks and crannies plus the thread is less cooperative very slubby and inconsistent in the splitting but i will make it work and i am more convinced now that i will be designing some small motifs or initial date holders to go at either end of both upper and lower motto strips so i won t be filling in the yellow all the way to the left and right edges until i know what i will be working around in related project news i have indeed re mounted this piece on my shorter side stretcher bars the easier for carrying it along with me tomorrow and working on it next week i ve also kitted up my pirate lunchbox with everything needful including unbroken skeins in the tangle of magnetic cable ties on the lid a box for spooled bobbined thread a box for orts extra wax halfie reading glasses to overclock my walking around bifocals a precaution a needle case extra beeswax and unseen a small metal cigarette case that i use to hold cut lengths of thread so they don t tangle until they are used plus my chatelaine of course which isn t shown here in the box because i am wearing it and speaking of the chatelaine there is a modification a while back i bought a magnetic backed micro needle threader shaped like a bee it wasn t a chained accessory just a free standing piece in a great mystery it went missing about three years ago when i took my big coif project on a road trip to visit family in buffalo then it mysteriously re appeared seven months later on our back porch in arlington massachusetts i ve used it ever since until sunday when i dropped it and heard it rattle through the springs and metal struts under my favorite reclining chair we searched and searched but eventually gave up thinking it was irretrievably stuck in the guts of the chair and having moved the heavy recliner did an opportunity vacuum under it the vacuum must have found it and shredded it because i found wreckage the decorative bee part was gone leaving only the stinger hook i was sad but not intending on replacement however last year i had bought another threader specifically made for chatelaine use because i found chained worn tools to be more convenient it worked nicely for about a month but the fancy filigree casing enclosed a very fragile wire loop style dime store threader one really good pull and the wire loop parted with no way to replace it threader hook intact but orphaned fancy threader top end intact but useless a bit of careful excavation to remove the old wire end and hot glue some gentle prying to insert the hook from the bee threader some more glue and we have a new more sturdy and useful hybrid just in time for me to take and use tethered with little to no chance of loss questions from my inbox or private mail did you do all those little orphaned squares and bits inside the monsters in double running stitch nope to terminate for each and every one would have been madness instead i tried to path plan to avoid skips longer than one horizontal or vertical unit wherever possible there are a single diagonal skips if unavoidable to prove it here s a snippet of the back side are you doing this totally double sided are you using waste knots to start nope to both as you can also see from the photo above i m a heretic i use knots but i do not depend on the bulk of the knot to anchor the thread if i am not doing a loop start i pierce my thread threads just above the knot as a faux loop start and i knot anchor onto existing threads then run down the line a bit for extra security to terminate will you post a video on how you are separating and finger spinning the reeled silk i apologize but i must disappoint you i have none of the equipment time talent nor extra set of hands to venture off into video land there will be no videos from me on this or any other technique but i can try to describe it my stash aged slubby tied to history allori bella silk is quite robust i can t blame the vendor for the surface fuzz it might have gotten roughed up in my rather casual storage drawer rather than having emerged from manufacture that way i will give them benefit of the doubt the thick single is composed of four constituent multi ply strands but they are often stuck together i cut a length usually no more than 15 or so inches about 38 cm and try to cleanly tease it in half into two multi ply strand groups to do this i employ the smooth tip of my laying tool and not a sewing needle once i have the two in hand i set one aside and work on the other in theory each of these halves should be divisible again to yield two more smaller strands making up the four specified on the label one would think that there would be two smaller components to make up each of those for the entire thread thickness that would logically deliver eight strands for stitching with each of those made up of two even skinnier reeled components but not those eight are not always uniform some are thicker than others some are composed of three not two reeled sub elements and teasing them apart is particularly difficult because when they get this fine the slubs and surface lint that joins them is quite evident still i try to get even thicknesses separating out that third sub element if present and using it doubled if need be or mixing and matching the others as best i can as far as the finger spinning it s just twisting it between fingertips sometimes under a thumb on top of some rather solid beeswax the goal is not to coat the thread make it feel waxy or shed dandruff just apply enough to make the surface fibers hold the sp...