The great shower curtain (which I’m now considering prick and pounce for transferring after all… ) is a Victorian variation on the tree of life pattern that became so popular in Renaissance needlework. No one is really sure whether European needlework influenced middle eastern and Indian woven textiles that were imported, or whether it was [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for August, 2010
They have a lot in common, really. Kind of surprising on the surface, but not so much as you dig deeper. Everything has a structure, and physicists are finding that mathematically, everything is related. I’ve been playing with stitches in crewelwork lately. Often I fall back on old standards that I know work, because they [...]
It’s something you sometimes hear in art circles – “Don’t get too precious” “Don’t be precious about it!” “Keep your work fresh, not precious.” Precious connotes perfectionism – sometimes overworking, sometimes underworking a piece in order to get it “just so.” For some reason, this is considered bad. (I’m a perfectionist…) But who am I [...]
My yarn for the test stitching for the shower curtain came on Saturday (ordered it from Knitpicks, and it always arrives so fast)! I am a very happy camper. I only messed up color wise on about three skeins, so I can work on looking that up. I decided to work up a cafe curtain [...]
Seems appropriate for a Friday the 13th. My confession – My studio is beyond a mess. A year ago I realized that my studio needed some serious attention. Despite working toward that goal, I’ve failed in that, but have a renewed push toward that direction. Recently I’ve been going through my yarns, realizing that many [...]