While I’m finishing up the design work for the big huge shower curtain project from the depths of my over-commitment (yes, I’m getting cold feet… a little!), I’ve been working on this little bird – he’s 8 inches or so tall, and so far worked in long and short stitch. I’m sure there will be [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for August, 2010
The linen for the shower curtain arrived Thursday, astonishing me with the speed of its arrival. It is, as I write this, drying after its quick trip through the washing machine. It wasn’t quite what I expected, but I can blame myself for not ordering a swatch before I bought it — and it is [...]
So, I decided to go ahead with a new shower curtain — we’ve been talking about going gothic in the hall bathroom – gothic the time period, not gothic the lifestyle, although there is some overlap there…. Really, it’s going to end up being a Victorianesque pastishe of the medieval period, which is fine by [...]