Color has always been tough for me… I tend to use analogous color schemes — like yellow-green, green and green-blue, so I can avoid the entire issue! But I spent quite a bit of time learning – once you can pair value (how light or dark an area is) with color-brightness and contrast, and complimentary [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for June, 2010
I’ve been writing on another site a lot about Help files, and reading the manual, and learning new software. It got me to thinking about how and where I go for help with needlework these days. Now that we have fewer and fewer local needlework stores around, I wonder, what are people doing when they [...]
I’ve had a few emails asking me where to find my posts on crewelwork, so I thought I’d round up a bunch of my bigger posts and put the links here in one place where you can find them more easily… My finished projects: 18th century Pockets Dragon Banner – crewel stitches, cotton floss To [...]