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Not finished yet

Posted in Stitching, beads, crazy patchwork, goldwork, hand embroidery on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »

But it’s coming along. If you click on the image, you will go to Flickr where you can see my notes about recently added details.
Now the question is: how shall I finish this block? Does it need a border? Should I frame it? What shall I do with it?

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Sadi metal threads

Posted in Stitching, crazy patchwork, family, gifts, goldwork, hand embroidery on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Mary Corbet and I have been talking about sadi this week. Sadi refers to gold and silver metal threads, used extensively in India and other parts of the world. It is coiled fine wire that comes in smooth tubes, faceted tubes, and pearl. You can read about it in Betty Luke’s book:

Here’s a close-up of [...]

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August 23rd seam treatment

Posted in Stitching, beads, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery on July 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This seam treatment features lace and beads. At the bottom there are tiny pearl seed beads. At the top are beads covered with rayon thread. In the middle, I stitched rayon ribbon thread over the lace and as colonial knots. Ah, yes, there are Cretan stitches, too.

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The latest seam treatment

Posted in Stitching, beads, crazy patchwork, goldwork, hand embroidery, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »

You’ve seen the motif on this patch. Today I’m showing you its seam treatment. This seam began with a row of tiny rick rack, on which I added glass beads. Not enough. Next I added bullions in Eterna silk twist #5. Under the rick rack I couched Japanese gold twist, DMC perle #8, and a [...]

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Michelle’s dolls’ house

Posted in dolls' house, gifts, tagged , , on July 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »

What with sickness and catching up after sickness and unstitching bits I was not satisfied with, I have not made much progress on my S block. So, instead, I will show you something I did before I got into needlework.
Because of my ME-CFS, I could only engage in quiet activities in my room for brief [...]

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New blogger friend

Posted in Stitching, blogging, friends, hand embroidery on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This week I’ve met Megan from Australia who has a blog about calligraphy, illumination, and historical embroidery. Do go visit her. She features a wealth of resources, having done a lot of research and stitching of her own. Especially don’t miss her book cover posts.

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Creative for a Second

Posted in CFS, art, book reviews, tagged on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday the book, Creative for a Second, was released online . Conceived, compiled, edited, and designed by Kirrily Anderson, it is a collection of art, both written and visual, created by people with ME-CFS, people who often can not do anything. Each contributor has included a statement about what creativity means in his or her [...]

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Progress to date

Posted in Stitching, crazy patchwork, goldwork, hand embroidery on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Here’s where I am, now that I can get back to work.

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What a young woman thinks

Posted in Personal, essays, tagged , on July 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Last month my grandson responded to my post about the counter-culture with this message:
“In your post on the 60s counter-culture in your blog, you mentioned the feminine point of view. I talked to a couple of my female friends from school a few months back, asking what they thought it means to [...]

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Pay-back

Posted in CFS, Personal, tagged , , on July 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

All of us with ME-CFS know about pay-back (aka PEM, Post Exertional Malaise). It’s the worsening of symptoms that results from happenings outside our normal routine and from activities or situations that require us to use up more energy than we have available. It’s the result of stress, but what is stress for us [...]

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