Clik here to view.
MINOR ADVENTURE
Off tomorrow to assist Younger Offspring’s migration to a new apartment. After graduation comes employment – in this case, done remote from home. And the current place (above a bar on a main street)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UNUSUAL FIND AND POSSIBLE USE
Sometimes it feels like everything I see is fraught with stitching purpose. Yesterday Younger Spawn and I went to the local Burlington, MA H-Mart, for a general restock of kimchi, various sauces, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LOOKING EAST AGAIN
Back when we were doing the expat stint in Pune, India, I wrote about Kasuthi (aka Kasuti, Kashida), a blackwork cousin that deserves to be better known by Western double running stich aficionados. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EYE WITNESS TO PROGRESS
So. How is that eyeball cushion coming along? Faster than I expected. Behold 90 of the completed 102 squares – that’s nine each of the 10 color combos. In total I will need 118, so I’m only about a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A BUSY DECEMBER
One of my periodic “where did I go” posts, reporting on everything and sundry that kept me from regular blogging. Baking First because I know there are cookie fiends out there just waiting for this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A WEALTH OF POSSIBILITIES
Progress and some potentials to report. First the progress: I’m closer to finishing the initial seaming of the eyeball squares for the bolster cushion. Here are all of them. The group indicated by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BLACKWORK/STRAPWORK RESOURCES HERE ON STRING
Blackwork embroidery seems to be having an Official Moment right now, with tons of new interest. I’ve got a lot of resources here that might be useful to folk beginning or continuing their journeys,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FIRST BUGS, NOW BIRDS
I’m edging into a new neighborhood on the Unstitched Coif Project. This one is inhabited by birds. The first one is stitched and I’m thinking on the fills for the second. You can see him at the center...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LONG-LOST TWINS, PART VII
Today’s my birthday, and needlework friend Barbara posted a snippet to my Facebook feed of a voided panel showing couples dancing. That bit of fun led to more digging on my part. I knew of similar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BUSY END TO THE YEAR
No doubt it has been a hectic end of year, what with the standard end of year activities plus the finish on the coif project, and the lightning trip to the UK to view the final exhibit. But that...
View Article
