Stitching with a Shimmy

Shimmying through life with needles and thread…

Archive for December, 2010

December 31st, 2010 by deRomilly

Year End Round up

2010 has NOT been easy. 2009 ended with me being laid off from my day job, and before that even had a chance to register, spending two weeks running back and forth to the vet and the emergency vet while we ascertained that our youngest cat — my Dora — had gone into total kidney [...]

December 10th, 2010 by deRomilly

Jacobean Design – Ivory Embroidery Step 2

Wow. Friday already. I didn’t realize that it was so late in the week! Where does the time go? Note: You might be interested in the first post in this series. Step 2 – Filling the Large Petals Last week I stitched the larger petals with geometric stitch patterns from Weldon’s.  I used two different [...]

December 6th, 2010 by deRomilly

Fun and Games

There was a time when our bellydance troupe was just starting in its new incarnation when we just wanted to improve. Perfect what we could do, do more,  and do it the best we could. This is still part of our philosophy- we all want to improve. But there came a time when we realized [...]

December 3rd, 2010 by deRomilly

OK… Pseudo Ivory for Winter

I still wanted to be stitching, even though I don’ thave the gold yet, and really can’t afford to order it until after the first of the year.  Ah, budgets. But then I thought. You know, I’ve got this stash. And there’s this thing called “Ivory Embroidery” that I’ve talked about before in my Weldon’s.  [...]