Stitching with a Shimmy

Shimmying through life with needles and thread…
April 4th, 2012

April 2012 Elmows – Week 1

April is for Fish! (My French teacher in high school told me that you have April Fish in France rather than April Fools, so this seems appropriate!) The package is available today for $2.99. If you only want one of the designs, with the exception of the bonus fish, they will be made available one a week through the end of April, and remain available until May 31. Today is the package deal and Week One.

The package:

Fish Design Pack

 

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Week One Design:

Week 1 design - Seahorse

 

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Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.

What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?

If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-249-8698, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!

March 28th, 2012

Elmow – March 2012 Week 4

Swirly Flowers from March Design Pack.

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Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.

What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?

If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-249-8698, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!

Reminder – please read–

Elmows will remain up for the month they are made available plus one month after. So March elmows will be available until April 30. April Elmows until May 31, and so on! They will later be made available as a hard-copy design pack only, either through my Etsy shop or at GoldenCircle Designs.com. />

March 21st, 2012

Elmow – March 2012 Week 3

Indian Inspired Floral from March Design Pack.

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Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.

What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?

If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-249-8698, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!

Reminder – please read–

Elmows will remain up for the month they are made available plus one month after. So March elmows will be available until April 30. April Elmows until May 31, and so on! They will later be made available as a hard-copy design pack only, either through my Etsy shop or at GoldenCircle Designs.com. />

March 16th, 2012

TAST – Week 11 – Whipped Wheel

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Week 11! Whipped wheels. I actually love this stitch. I went for a more abstract version on this, and while I like it all right in this orientation I think if I framed it I’d rotate it to the right 1/4 turn. ;)

I learned a bit. 1. If you’re going to put them in a design, either use removable ink for the circles, or draw the spokes and not the outer edge, especially for larger rings – I tend to forget that larger makes them more octagonal, and it was hard to cover the permanent ink.

I played more with placement and being able to overlap with these, including adding beads to the spokes before whipping, and to the whipping thread as I went. All in all, they are very different looks, and I think I prefer the “put it on the spokes” method.

Click the images for more detail! The texture is great, and lends itself to photography from different angles very well, even if it did capture my added cat hair specialty fiber perfectly!

March 14th, 2012

Elmow – March 2012 Week 2

Seed pod from March Design Pack.

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Note: Elmows are distributed as a pdf file. If you don’t have it on your computer, you can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here. This creates a nice clean chart or pattern that you can print on your printer (and size up or down using a copy machine, or even work from the monitor, if you want.

What ARE these things? What can I do with them and is it safe to buy them from you?

If something goes wonky, PLEASE email or call me
(919-249-8698, 9-5 ET). I want you to be happy!

Reminder – please read–

Elmows will remain up for the month they are made available plus one month after. So March elmows will be available until April 30. April Elmows until May 31, and so on! They will later be made available as a hard-copy design pack only, either through my Etsy shop or at GoldenCircle Designs.com. />