Archive for March, 2009
Get Away 2009
I spent last weekend at a get away run by one of my Local Needlework Shops. The retreat was held at a conference center just a little bit north east of this fellow:
I arrived Friday night just five minutes early from the report in time and found that I was one of the late [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 31st, 2009 tagged stitching | 1 Comment »
Random thing you didn’t know you didn’t want to know about me
I’m still recovering from a busy weekend. We had relatives in town for part of the weekend; we had a fabulous dinner out with them at the Steamboat House restaraunt, which is named after Sam Houston’s house. Saturday we went to a two-year old’s birthday party. I got tired just watching the [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 25th, 2009 tagged Other | 1 Comment »
Monday Bookstand
In conjunction with the Stitching for Literacy campaign, I thought I’d take Mondays to post about what I’m currently reading.
Currently, I’m reading A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin. It is the third book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. And by currently reading, I mean I finished book [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 23rd, 2009 tagged book review | Comment now »
Bridging the gap from creativity to cross-stitch chart.
A reader asked me the following question:
You mentioned that you use different design techniques depending on the piece, including software. I would be interested to know what software you’ve used and what you’ve found to be the drawbacks to designing using software versus graph paper.
This is a very interesting question with a somewhat [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 19th, 2009 tagged design work | Comment now »
Tutorial: Pocket Ornament Finishing
Recently, I released these ornament, which also function as an Advent Calendar (or they will when the series is finished).
The fun of an Advent Calendar is to have a little goodie each day, so these ornaments are actually finished as pockets. Since I just finished stitching the next six in the series, I thought [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 16th, 2009 tagged stitching, tutuorial | 2 Comments »
All your scissor are belong to us
I have two pairs of scissors near my home stitching area; one is an inexpensive pair, the other is more expensive. I usually use and travel around with the less expensive pair. The other day I happened to grab the other pair and I was reminded why one would use more expensive scissors: [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on March 10th, 2009 tagged stitching | 2 Comments »
Can’t get the hang of Thursdays
In fact, I’m not entirely sure where the week went.
Let me see, Monday DH and I did some shopping after dinner. Tuesday, I was still tired from that, plus I cooked a big dinner and watch DH play Halo Wars. Wednesday was stitch night and that takes us to Thursday! That’s how [...]