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… [...]
Stitching with a Shimmy
Shimmying through life with needles and thread…Archive for January, 2012
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]