I am currently fighting with technical issues with the promised video. As I am having a horrid time getting them uploaded to any of the sites with embeddable viewers right now, I thought I’d go ahead and post a link here for the time being. Unfortunately, I can’t do that either, because the video is [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for March, 2010
Note: There are a couple of things in this step I would have done differently if I were doing this again. And will, next time I do stumpwork! And as I wrote this up, I realized that I can’t find video or photo tutorials on working these stitches over a wire frame, so in the [...]
Into the fun part of wired elements today! YAY! I’m starting with the small blue petals around the red ones. Mostly because they’re smaller, and they’re satin stitched rather than needle-lace. Again, images are contained in the gallery below the instructions, and you can see more detail by clicking the thumbnail. Step 5 First things [...]
Oops! It’s Saturday! I completely forgot it was Friday yesterday, even though I knew it was Friday, if that makes any sense. Probably I’m just babbling. But here it is… my stitching on… Step 4 This week we’re going to finish the flower center. We’re now into the actual raised embroidery part of the piece. [...]
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I have a phobia about REALLY finishing needlework. I’m working on it. But I’m always terrified (and it really is terror) that I’m going to ruin a piece of stitching that I’ve spent hours and hours working on. If it entails more than just lacing it to [...]