I've been experimenting with some traditional embroidery styles. The first two pictures are examples of the Hardanger style (from 17th century Norway). These are stitched in quite thick cotton thread. The third is in the Assisi style (from 16th century Italy) in which only the spaces between the motifs are stitched. This is stitched in ordinary sewing thread. The fourth is a traditional European cross stitch design actually stitched in embroidery thread.

beautiful!

Love them all keep up the great work my friend:):)hugs

This is really beautiful Sue. You must have that creative gene that scientist talk about.

I just love doing Hardanger [by hand of course] but my eyes let me down a bit these days. Will you be brave enough to cut your machine hardanger Sue? You have made a great job of these old handicrafts.

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by spendlove 13 Mar 2013

I haven't worked out how to do a design with pulled thread or cutwork in the Hardanger. IT is on my to-do list!

by mops edited 13 Mar 2013

Open the cross stitch design in Studio (you can by right clicking on the design in Editor and choosing Edit stitch file in Studio), then digitise a slight zigzag around the open areas (as if you were doing cutwork). You can even add bars to larger open areas. Then save and convert the object file as usual.

by mops 13 Mar 2013

Editing makes spaces disappear - should have left the one typo, now I have several!

by mops 13 Mar 2013

I had a look and noticed Embird saves the cross stitch designs as eof too (5D uses a different .crz for cross stitch and .can for other designs) so it's easy to edit and add in Studio. I'll need to buy the Embird module for the Hardanger things.

it's always nice to rediscover our roots in embroidery you have done these samples wonderfully..thanks marian

You are getting so clever Sue, to think that these styles can all be done on our Embroidery machines is fascinating. Kudos to you! Love and blessings Chris

Nice experiments! The simplicity of those old designs always fascinated me, and so did the mathematical quality of them.
I started on a hand embroidered cross stitch UFO again last Sunday and love it, although I need a magnifying glass (got one of those lamps for OAPs - and that helps) - one of the reasons it was unfinished. Once you start the ideas seems to multiply, I'll work those out in the software - less time consuming than stitching them.

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by spendlove 13 Mar 2013

I just love watching the sew simulator!

They are all lovely and would look nice made up into a sampler together.

Mar 12, 2013 Always so creative. Nice to go back to our beginnings to get new ideas.

I like them all!

Lovely work Sue

Very nice.

Love all these.

these are all so pretty..

well done Sue. Do you have a favorite? Hugs Loralye

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by spendlove 13 Mar 2013

The first Hardanger, I think.

very nice they are all beautiful .Maria

Very nice. I like number 1 and 4 the most.

You are so talented! This is all done by hand right?

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by spendlove 12 Mar 2013

No - I've digitised the designs to be as much like hand embroidery as possible.

They are all beautiful. G

so the past is moving to the present to be carried on, well done

All the samples look great, splendid work

All are lovely samples. The hardinger style is quite interesting. We don't often see that type of stitching these days. Very nice work!

Great, very nice

very nice! I like the 4th one best!