Archive for January, 2009
And the stitching goes on…
Here’s what the sixth Advent Ornament looks like right now:
I’m a center starter, which in this instance meant starting with white thread on a cream colored fabric. I’ll try to take pictures as the stitching progresses. I really like it when a design hits a tipping point where it starts to look [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 29th, 2009 tagged Uncategorized, design work, stitching | Comment now »
More previews – now with bigger pictures
Ok, I’m just going to break down and post all the new stuff, so here it goes:
Snowfight: Orange
Snowfight: Green
Snowfight: Indigo
Advent Ornaments:
Poinsettia (Dec 1)
Advent Candle (Dec 2)
Gingerbread House (Dec 3)
Briar Rose: Page 1
and Briar Rose: Page 2
These won’t be available until after the Nashville Market on February 7 (which is wholesale to the trade only).
Published by cross eyed kat on January 27th, 2009 tagged new releases, stitching | 2 Comments »
Consistency – Have you seen mine?
I just realized as I’m working on the sketch for page four of The Tale of Briar Rose, that I didn’t keep the symbol set consistent between the charts for page one and page two. That kind of thing drives me crazy. What am I talking about? Imagine, for instance, that in [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 23rd, 2009 tagged NeedleArts | 1 Comment »
Countdown to Nashville Market
T-16 days.
Here is my completed production run:
This stack doesn’t include existing inventory of charts. I am tempted to print additional charts for the new stuff. It all depends on how popular everything will be. I am saying that I’m not doing any more single-page sheet charts after this. Because I have [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 21st, 2009 tagged Blogroll, NeedleArts | Comment now »
Is that a dead rat or are you just happy to see me?
Kindof scary looking isn’t it? That’s 10 inches of my hair, which I’ll be sending off to Locks of Love soon. I’ve had a big cut before, but never saved it all in one chunk.
Here’s what my hair looks like now:
So it isn’t exactly short, but no longer uber-long. I’m really happy [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 20th, 2009 tagged NeedleArts | 4 Comments »
The Back in Time Machine: A Birthday
Oh, yeah, you can’t get to the New Year without going through my birthday. That’s what happens when you are born in late December. I spent most of the day at the LNS since I was on vacation. DH and I made these lovely cupcakes:
We decorated the cupcakes with Oreo halves, Oreo [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 15th, 2009 tagged NeedleArts | 1 Comment »
Where were we?
Oh yes, the Back-in-Time Machine was doing a tour of the holidays. Here’s a synopsis of Christmas:
We put up two trees each year. One is a 12 foot tree, the “Big” tree, the other is smaller. Mocha likes hiding and playing under both of them. She doesn’t climb them anymore, but [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 12th, 2009 tagged Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
The Back in Time Machine: Thanksgiving
I finally downloaded pictures from my camera, so you’re going to be treated to a bit of the past.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, DH, Mocha and I went off to Baton Rouge for Thanksgiving. We feasted there with my Mom; no rare Who-Roast-Beast, but plenty of Turkey and trimmings. The day [...]