This is the project after all the low-relief (and a few french knots) have been added. Not looking much like a beach right now, is it?! I know from my colored pencil work that the beginning layers you put in often don’t look anything like the final work — people become orange and hot pink [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for July, 2007
I finally dug my camera out from under the pile of papers beside my computer and took photos of my progress with the Sumptuous Surfaces assignment. Yay! Click the thumbnails to see bigger pictures. The design process started with a mind map that began with “Peace”. Since the supply list had encouraged not just monotone, [...]
Something I am working on is Wild Abandon. This is a problem for me in two completely different ways. First, I tend to have WAAAAY too much of it when I am performing. Saqra once said in a workshop that you shouldn’t give the audience all of yourself in a performance: they know and still [...]
I did indeed sign up for Sharon B’s Sumptuous Stitches class. And only one lesson in, I’m already glad I did. (Well, actually lesson two arrived in my inbox this morning, but I’m not quite there yet…) I don’t know what I expected, but what I’m getting so far is a detailed design class that [...]
In my time away from fiber, I am a technical writer. I translate between the geeks who develop the application and the people who sit at the computer and actually USE it… As such, and since many of my friends are in tech support, I hear horror stories about things the people in front of the [...]