#ASK7: Underwater Ballet
Ann Strite-Kurz Underwater Ballet   Underwater Ballet is a mixed media canvas design that incorporates a variety of techniques that include unconventional blackwork, couching, bias bargello, and open canvas patterning. Converging courses are suggested by the dramatic stripes behind the "synchronized swimmers" as they pause in perfect unison to investigate a mysterious underwater object. Six different metallics are combined with beads and shiny cotton threads (or silks, if preferred) to create a dazzling underwater scene. A simple Tent outline in silver metallic is used to establish the contours of the symmetrical design. Threads for two color combinations are included in the materials list below, but with the wide array of threads available today that fit 18-mesh canvas, any number of imaginative combinations are feasible. Finished Design Size: 10" square.

Ground: Zweigart 18-mesh white mono canvas
Technique: Canvas/Needlepoint
Level: Intermediate
Price: $20.00 (MI Residents add 6% Sales Tax)
To order: ASK Order Form

Materials:
NOTE. The supplies listed are used in the bright blue example shown on the frontispiece. Thread substitutions are listed in parentheses for an aqua combination.An alternative version in elegant Trebizond silks combined with Anchor flosses is listed in the instruction booklet along with some suggestions for more fanciful fish.
Canvas: 15" square piece of 18-mesh Zweigart white mono canvas
Stretcher frame: 15" square
#16 Balger metallic braid:
2 reels #001 silver 1 reel #032 pearl 1 reel #005 black
1 reel (plus 2 yards) #019 pewter 1 reel #006 blue (#029 turquoise)
#5 pearl cotton:
DMC #318 medium gray - 1 skein DMC #762 light gray - 1 skein
DMC #310 black - 1 skein DMC #519 light blue - 1 skein
#8 pearl cotton:
DMC #518 medium blue - 1 ball (none available in aqua - use floss instead)
DMC #519 light blue - 1 ball (none available in aqua - use floss instead)
Cotton floss:
2 skeins DMC #518 medium blue (#597 medium aqua - 3 skeins)
2 skeins DMC #519 light blue (#598 light aqua - 3 skeins)
1 spool DMC Art 283Z Fil d'argent silver metallic
10 rocaille beads: Minimum of 150 light blue or aqua silver-lined
Tapestry needles: #20. #22, #24, #26 and #28.

 

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