After doing cross stitch for years it seems strange that I hadn't actually tried my hand at canvas work. All that changed whilst we were away though as I'd randomly pulled out of a box a couple of small kits to do in the evening and one of them turned out to be a canvas work one that I'd picked up at an old Cross-Stitch Guild Make & Take session. It was the first time that I'd tried many of these stitches, but also gave me a good excuse to use the books I'd picked up whilst up in Northumberland.
I really enjoyed doing something a bit different though and it certainly made me think that I should try my hand at similar again in the future. Certainly it was nice trying new stitches out and doing them on canvas like this made them somewhat easier than they could have been. Using crewel wool to do the work though was a bit of a pain as it was a bit too "rough" to use with the canvas size if you know what I mean. At the same time as me doing this my mum was doing canvas work with embroidery threads and I could certainly see how this worked a bit easier.
So now I'm on the look out for some new canvas work projects, so if you know of any online then please point me in the right direction.
That’s lovely!
Mmmn, I bought an embroidery kit once. I didn’t even get as far as unravelling all the threads. Not up my alley at all, though I absolutely love doing embroidered monograms on fabrics…sooo useful!
Why is it called canvas work? I imagined you toiling over a bit of hessian or something. Like the pattern, sort of heraldic.