One of the things I’ve been doing in this heat is reading out of print Victorian needlework books on my kindle — doing research for new crewel designs and new embroidery designs in general. The other day i was happily bouncing through Ada Wentworth’s Jacobean Embroidery, its Forms and Fillings, Including Late Tudor, when I [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for July, 2010
Welcome to post 200 – wherein I cheer that I’ve made it this far, plan for the future, and whinge a it (but only a bit) about my last month. 200 posts, a couple of years, lots of stitching, knitting and dancing, and wow! Obviously I am not the most consistent blogger, though I do [...]
I admit it… I’m a craft dilettante! I was, several years ago, trying to integrate my rubber stamping hobby into my textile art. I loved the depth it gave backgrounds, and being able to use the stamps themselves as designs to stitch. Then I ran into a problem. I had too many pieces to keep [...]