Archive for October, 2008
Creating a Haunted House
Our neighbors create a haunted house in their garage every year. Apparently in their old neighborhood, they’d have lines to go through it every year. This year, we’ve been helping them out as they decided to upgrade from plastic film walls to plywood partitions. Last night we closed it for the night [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on October 29th, 2008 tagged Other, stitching | Comment now »
Stitching accomplishments
I got some stitching on my green monster done last week:
Actually, this picture is about a week old and I finally have some colors other than greens stitched. Although, the new stitching is in shades of brown, so it isn’t much improvement. Green is my favorite color, but stitching green leaves on a [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on October 27th, 2008 tagged ATC, cat, design work, stitching | Comment now »
A few questions answered
First, I am happy to report that I am suffering from another surge in creativity. This has caused my to get some work in on two of the follow-up designs to the massively backstitched design. The follow-ups will have only slightly less backstiching. I also worked on some stand-alone designs that I [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on October 20th, 2008 tagged design work | Comment now »
Gas sipper
If you got it, flaunt it I guess. I spotted this in the parking lot of my local Walmart.
Published by cross eyed kat on October 18th, 2008 tagged Other | 1 Comment »
Begin at the Beginning
“Begin at the beginning and go on until you reach the end”
Here is my beginning:
That is “Moster Mash” fabric from Picture This Plus, and almost as soon as I saw it, I knew what design would go on it.
I finally got the design charted out last week and so the next step is to test [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on October 13th, 2008 tagged design work, stitching | 2 Comments »
Backstitching abyss
I went to a stitch-in last night and finally finished my backstitching marathon. Actually, it wasn’t that long, I think I spent 3-4 nights on this. Here’s a preview:
I learned a couple of years ago to backstitch as I go. What an amazing concept that was – previously I had done all [...]