Stitching with a Shimmy

Shimmying through life with needles and thread…

Archive for February, 2009

February 14th, 2009 by deRomilly

Red

Happy Valentine’s Day!!! And it is, still Valentine’s day, if not for much longer where I am. I meant to get this out earlier, but the day kind of got out of hand… Anyway. Here are some of my red images. I actually found more than I expected to, and none of them are roses [...]

February 9th, 2009 by deRomilly

Color Experiments and Challenge

Over the years I have noticed a tendency I’ve had to gravitate toward a specific color set in all my work. I struggle with this and have always attempted to buy thread and try to design outside my comfort zone. This does not always work. While I have used more yellows and oranges over the [...]

February 4th, 2009 by deRomilly

Journaling – Visual and otherwise

I’m a sporadic journaler, or have been. Much like I’m a sporadic band sampler-maker (more on that in another post!) I have kept and abandoned journals and diaries of all kinds since I was 10. My first was a little locking diary that my grandmother gave me. I remember it was red, and I got [...]

February 3rd, 2009 by deRomilly

And the Winner Is…

But first I’m going to explain how I came to the answer, because given the comments and number of them, there may be some questions. This afternoon I pulled up the post and l copied all 25 comments into a word document, turning them into 2 column layout and then cutting the comment out. I [...]