Dear Friends, if you would like to see some ravishingly beautiful and VERY unusual use of goldwork, please go to Goranka’s website. There you’ll see bras, corsets (YES!), and purses, as well as goldwork pictures. By all means, take a look!
Archive for February, 2009
Very surprising goldwork
Posted in blogging, goldwork on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In case you think I’ve been idle
Posted in Elizabethan on February 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Because I haven’t posted much, you may think I haven’t been stitching. Wrong! I’ve spent about 20 hours trying to learn the plaited braid stitch. I began working with Jane Zimmerman’s instructions and diagram.
This is the ubiquitous diagram, the same one in every stitch book and online source I could find.
Just couldn’t get it. One [...]
Thanks
Posted in Personal on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to all of you who sent Ernie birthday wishes. He has enjoyed them very much. He’s never been so well-celebrated!
Ernie’s birthday
Posted in Personal on February 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday we celebrated Ernie’s 84th birthday. I ordered Chinese delivered. For starters, we had egg rolls into which I had put birthday candles. With the egg rolls, we had Maker’s Mark premium bourbon, one of his (and my) favorite drinks. We’ve had this bottle for more years than I can remember. It’s very expensive and [...]
My Funny Balantine
Posted in Personal, Stitching on February 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When our granddaughter Melissa married in March of 2001, I had to buy a suitable outfit for the wedding. (Back then we could still make the trip to New Jersey.) The outfit I bought, from a catalog, was exactly what I wanted. However, it had no pockets, so I had to make something to hold [...]
Plaited braid stitch–first try
Posted in Elizabethan on February 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Having decided to learn the most difficult stitch first, I’ll show you my first attempt at the plaited braid stitch. I’m working large scale, at least twice as large as the vine is supposed to be in the Elizabethan design, and I’m using a much heavier metallic thread–the better to see what I’m doing. It [...]
Preparing to stitch
Posted in Elizabethan on February 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I have not gotten off to a good start. You may remember that I am not good at following instructions, nor do I like to do so. But I’ve really been trying to do that with this Zimmerman design. As instructed, I carefully ironed the linen for the panel and for a practice cloth. (Yeah, [...]
Bound for Australia
Posted in Crazy patchwork S, crazy patchwork on February 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Finished edging
Yesterday I sent my erstwhile practice cloth off to Australia where it will be part of the ME-CFS Society’s traveling exhibit of art by people with ME-CFS, the works that were originally featured in the book Creative for a Second. I have no idea where or when this exhibit will appear. For you Aussies, [...]
Back to stitching
Posted in Elizabethan, Stitching, beads, hand embroidery, physics, study on February 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In my last post, I promised I’d get back to writing about stitching, and here I am. Without delay, here’s what I’m going to make.
This is a panel designed and taught by Jane Zimmerman. You can find out more about her chartpak for this piece here. I learned about it from my friend Megan, who [...]
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