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In the Dec. McCall's Needlework there was an ornament of Swedish huck
weaving. (By the way the directions on the pattern sheet were wrong - I
called McCalls and they are sending me a corrected pattern). I found
another ornament is this style in the B&G Christmas Ideas 1992. Does anyone know of other resources or patterns for this technique? The
threads are laid/woven across the top of Aida fabric. The ornaments above
used Krenik metallic threads. Looked fast and easy for Christmas
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-Mary P. Bush, the designer, lives in Oakland, CA, and will be coming to
our EGA chapter to teach this in Feb. She says this technique can be
done on huck cloth (not too easy to find) or aida with equal success.
We're going to use #5 pearl cotton (ok, Marcie?!). As to patterns, I think they all pretty much look like the one in
McCall's. My mom made several dish towels (aka tea towels) in this
technique, and they look exactly like Mary's ornaments and the huck
piece we're going to do in EGA. There's always (nearly alwasy?) a
gradation in color and it's a undulating-wave kind of pattern. It can
be mirror images (most common), as shown in McC, or just one half of
the mirror image. Seems to me I saw some placemats using huck weaving in an old issue of (I think) CS&CC. Not sure, tho. Just a vague glimmer of remembrance. (A lot of things are pretty vague in my old age, folks!) -in a better homes and gardens christmas decorations special issue from 1994 (i think) there was an article on darning on aida. huckerback is the name of the fabric; darning is what one does on it. if i recall, the second craft thing i did was to make a tea towel/hand
towel on huckerback at school (soon after the knitted square for the red
cross charity drive). to the best of my knowledge, mama still has the
towel (she never throws anything away - like mother, like etc.). this bh&g article featured a table cloth made of red aida - the darning
thus could be done in both directions. aida has "floats" if you look
very closely at it - in darning on this sort of fabric, the thread is
kept on the top of the fabric but anchored at critical points in the
design by being sewn underneath these fabric threads clustered on the
aida square. if you've got any aida 11, have a look at it - rough up a
few squares with your fingernail and you'll notice the "floats" i'm
referring to. |
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