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For those of you who expressed interest in the Hardanger embroidery, I‘ve kept a Pinterest board for many years with photos and patterns. I also have the tagged book among many others. It‘s just such a gorgeous embroidery but so very difficult. Sometimes it‘s just fun to peruse the work. #foodandlit #Norway

https://pin.it/3UNJ1vC

This is the bookmark I plan to start with. If anyone wants to give it a try I can send you the correct size cloth (I have a lot of extra) when I get home and instructions for the correct type of thread and needle. You also need the small very sharp scissors. Just let me know in the comments and we can exchange emails. @AnneCecilie @writerlibrarian @ljuliel Anyone else?

@ljuliel Here‘s another page showing some of the stitches. The top example shows how to do the cutting of threads.

@ljuliel This is a picture of a Hardanger pattern. It is sort of like counted cross-stitch on large pieces of special material. The empty squares are where threads of the material are snipped using very sharp scissors like those pictured and pulled out (called cutwork). The stitches have to be precise to do this so the whole thing doesn‘t unravel. So where it looks like pieces are joined, this is actually where a lot of cutwork has been done.

This is a Hardanger embroidery pattern book I bought today, along with some Hardanger kits. I really do hope to get back to it.

#xmasxstitchexchange @vkois88
1. No idea. There are designers? ☺️
2. Probably cute or traditional.
3. I‘m making a Hardanger ornament for the exchange (I hope—it‘s been a few years and my first attempts have been very rusty), which requires special Hardanger cloth. When I cross-stitch I normally do pre-stamped designs
4. See #3
5. I ❤️ the stop-motion movies from the 60s-70s like Rudolph
6. Chocolate & peppermint or both!
7. Cocoa and black tea

I got these Christmas ornament kits when we were in Norway a couple years ago. I hope these will work for the cross-stitch Christmas ornament swap hosted by @vkois88 Not cross-stitch but a unique Norwegian Hardanger embroidery. I think it should be ok. @wanderinglynn

#nonfictionlove #somethingforsept I am a crafty person and my fave nonfiction books are craft or cookbooks. I learned Hardanger from my husbands Norwegian grandmother a few decades ago during my first visit to Norway to meet my in laws. My brother in law sat between us and translated the entire afternoon. I inherited all of her patterns, much of her actual work and I have countless books on the topic. It is a difficult hobby but beautiful.