Archive for July, 2008
Psuedorandom
Last week, I saw this while walking in the parking garage at work: It isn’t my car, and there was no indication of the occasion, but I’m guessing someone was surprised! He/She also had some work to do, as I don’t think it would be safe to drive around with those balloons! I also saw [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 31st, 2008 tagged contest, design work, stitching | 1 Comment »
Yellow Jersey Results
In the final time trial, Becca put in a terrific performance and comes to the finish line wearing the Yellow Jersey: Here’s Becca stitching while watching the Tour: And is that a red dragon I spy coming to life? And here she is “Putting the hammer down” as Phil and Paul would say: I spy: [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 29th, 2008 tagged contest, contest winners, cycling | 2 Comments »
Hardanger – not as hard as biking up Alpe d’Huez
Here’s a little tutorial on hardanger, which is fun, once you’re over the fear of cutting your stitching up. Hardanger adds some texture and interest to stitching; pure hardanger pieces can have the feel of fine lace. First, stitch klosters: These klosters are stitched with DMC pearl cotton #8. I picked the color 676 to [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 25th, 2008 tagged contest, design work, tutuorial | 2 Comments »
Which way do you stitch?
I cross each stitch as I go whether I’m using DMC or a variegated thread. I know lots of other people do one half of the cross stitch, then come back with the other half. The result of the second method is that the back looks like lots of vertical lines. The result of the [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 18th, 2008 tagged Uncategorized | Comment now »
Tour de iPhone
Today is a rest day in the Tour de France, but I’ll probably keep stitching tonight because it is restful. I didn’t have a restful day Friday as we got up early to experience this: We probably wouldn’t have done it except that my father-in-law wanted to get out in the madness. Unfortuantely, because our [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 15th, 2008 tagged contest, cycling, design work, stitching | 1 Comment »
TDF – first sketch
Here it is, stage six of the Tour de France, and I’ve only gotten as far as an initial sketch of my TDF design. At least it is a start. Here’s a picture of it on DH’s bike: Yes, there is a sketch on that piece of paper – it is hard to see because [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 10th, 2008 tagged contest, cycling, design work, stitching | Comment now »
Baseball plus Fourth of July plus Tour de France
A week ago, we got to go the baseball game. The Astros played the Red Sox. I’m clueless, so I didn’t realize that it was an interleague game. The Astros lost and not even a rally cap could help them: And we didn’t even know that there would be fireworks – bonus! Of course, they [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 7th, 2008 tagged contest, cycling, Other | 2 Comments »
TdF SAL; details
Aren’t these cute? This is what happens when you order something on a Sunday, and then figure out some other things that are “must have” on Monday! For the morbidly curious, we got some bicycling related movies and books. So how does this Tour de France stitch along work? Well, I’m encouraging everyone to start [...]