Posted in Stitching, design, gifts, goldwork, hand embroidery, tagged matrix, Matt, padding, practice, sadi on May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So far I have removed the gold purls and the pearl purl outline. Before doing so, I added a few other stitches so that I could see how the Sulky would tear away. There’s still the cleaning up of threads and removal of the string padding to do. Allie, you were absolutely right. It feels [...]
Posted in Stitching, crazy patchwork, design, hand embroidery, tagged Carole Samples, gold, practice, Sulky on May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Because I spent too much time in the kitchen and blogging yesterday, I didn’t get to stitching my first S design. I’m going to get to try a new technique using Sulky Tear-Easy paper for transferring a design to fabric.
I learned about this aid and bought it from Carole Samples whom you can see here. [...]
Posted in Stitching, crazy patchwork, design, goldwork, hand embroidery, tagged basting, CQ block, first design, piecing, process, protecting on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been so long since I started this project that, overnight, I realized that I had not described it quite accurately. Let me try again.
In starting the work, I played two roles: I was the client or patron who wanted something done for me and I was the contractor or artisan who could do the [...]
Posted in CFS, Stitching, crazy patchwork, design, hand embroidery, tagged history, ME-CFS, notebook, S, studies on May 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In 2005 I began thinking about doing an embroidery project about my life as it has come to be since I’ve been disabled and severely limited by ME-CFS (or whatever it’s going to be called eventually) based on the letter S, which is the first letter in many words that have become important to me. [...]
Posted in Stitching, design, hand embroidery, tagged embroidery, garlic, hand stitching, monochrome, shading on April 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In case you haven’t seen Allie’s latest embellisher and hand-stitched piece, don’t miss it. It says Spring!
Also, be sure to see Veronique’s charming string of garlic, created with the help of her cat!
Which reminded me of a little study of garlic I did years ago. Mine is not colorful, lively, complex, and interesting, as Vero’s [...]
Posted in Stitching, design, hand embroidery on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Now that you’ve seen my miniature space, I’ll show you some miniature stitched studies.
Here are two quick warm up sketches I did for My View.
If you look closely, you will see little frames around small sections of the sketches. After I had stitched My View, my teacher (a subject for a later post) [...]
Posted in Stitching, book reviews, design, hand embroidery on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sharon B started a conversation about Constance Howard, and I want to join in. Elizabeth then asked for more information about Howard and Kay responded with pictures of and from her books with links to sites for further material on Constance Howard.
She is a favorite teacher of mine, too. I have The Constance Howard [...]
