Stitching with a Shimmy

Shimmying through life with needles and thread…

Archive for January, 2012

January 30th, 2012 by deRomilly

Monday Treasures

My Monday Treasure for this week isn’t actually embroidery. It’s a kitty. This is Dora. She’s our kitten. She came with Pookah, a stray we adopted with the house. (Little, sad, starving black face poking her head over the windowsill and wanting to come in, but scared of the people… now she’s a happy love… [...]

January 26th, 2012 by deRomilly

The Stitch Dilettante moves on…

Stitch Dilettante. That would be me. One of my defining characteristics as a stitch dilettante is that whenever things get stressful I have a tendency to start a new project with string – often in a technique I’ve never tried before. Things I’ve learned this way include: needle tatting, needlelace, reticella, pulled work, drawn work, [...]

January 13th, 2012 by deRomilly

TAST Week2 – Buttonhole stitch

I don’t believe I stitched this much. A stitch I used to hate with a passion because I could never get it to lie flat, I mastered it last year, and this challenge just gave me a chance to play with it — a lot.   And there are still ideas that aren’t’ going to [...]

January 11th, 2012 by deRomilly

Elmows on Hiatus

I’m putting the Elmow program on hiatus for a little while until I can figure out what I want to do with it. I’ve got so many ideas, that I’m getting a little overwhelmed by them! Remember that Elmow #16 was complimentary, if you’re looking for something to stitch right now, and the last 12 [...]

January 10th, 2012 by deRomilly

TAST!

I’m going to shift my TAST posts to Fridays/Saturdays, I think, so I can get them up faster so people who are perusing them can.  I think I can manage that. Last week’s TAST was Fly stitch. I did a small sample, but I’m afraid this is a stitch that I’m just not very creative [...]