PieceWork magazine's Spring 2024 issue: Forget-Me-Nots by Deanna Hall West, pages 34-37

The Spring 2024 issue of PieceWork magazine features the second of a four-part series of lovely embroidery designs by the fabulous Deanna Hall West.

Deanna doesn't realize it, but I've been a silent "groupie" of hers for a couple of decades--I own many of her silk ribbon embroidery books. Her "Stitch in Time" library is always so well researched, explained and diagramed.

Forget-Me-Nots is a Silk Ribbon spray based on a Victorian pelerine. "Pelerine" is a new word for me--as always, PieceWork articles are detailed and anticipate your questions. PieceWork Winter 2023 issue, page 42, has a photo of the inspiration behind "Marguerite Daisies" (the first of the four-part series) and explains "A pelerine is a short woman's cape or tippet made of fur or fabric.  It has long panels hanging down the center front and is waist length in the back."

If you don't have a copy of PieceWork Spring 2024 issue, you can order one HERE from the publisher, Long Thread Media.

We've put together a threads & ribbon pack for your convenience. Each pack includes:
    1 skein Zen Shin (spun silk thread) #317 Green Tourmaline
    1 skein 3.5mm silk ribbon in #317 Green Tourmaline
    1 skein 3.5mm silk ribbon in Montano color "Spring Green"
    1 skein 3.5mm silk ribbon in Montano color "Daffodil"
    2 skeins 3.5mm silk ribbon in Montano color "Glacier Lake"

35 yards total

Photo credit for image styled and stitched project: Matt Graves, courtesy of Long Thread Media

DETAILS & Tips About the Threads & Ribbons Forget-Me-Not Pack
--All of the silks are from the Bombyx mori silk worm, often referred to as "mulberry" silk.
--Hand-dyed in Colorado--color fast. We use acid dyes with heat and then rinse until water runs clear.
--Wash in tepid to cold water

Zen Shin—100% Spun Silk—20/2

--equivalent in size and twist to #8 perle
--2-ply thread, not designed to separate the strands
--a wonderfully easy thread to use
--suitable for decorative stitches on 18-mesh canvas
10 yards (1 skein fits onto a standard sewing machine bobbin)

About Treenway Silks’ Ribbons (5-yards each skein)
--All widths of Treenway Silk's ribbons are woven with selvage edges.  The selvage edge can hold up to stitching on fabric or being pulled through canvas.
--The silk used is the highest quality reeled silk which still has the sericin in it.  The sericin acts as a natural sizing. 
     --The warp (length-wise) threads are two strands of fine silk which are twisted together. There are 300 fine warp threads per inch.
     --The weft (cross-wise threads) is a single silk strand.
     --The ribbon is woven in plain weave, where the weft thread goes over and under each individual warp thread, all the way across the ribbon, giving a strong, stable ribbon.