Archive for June, 2009
Finished and psyche! Not Finished!
First, if you look real quick (this week), you’ll see the first three Advent Ornaments are now available through Hoffman Distributing. Also, I finally finished, framed and photographed “Octagonal”. It will ship today to shops that pre-ordered it during the online Needlework Show. Your local shop can order it from me at anytime! As a [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 30th, 2009 tagged stitching | Comment now »
Have you seen a UFO?
That’s an Unfinished Object. I actually don’t have very many of these. That’s probably because I have the best intentions about finishing most of my starts. I’ve shown the good (finished objects), the bad (WIPs) and now here is the ugly underside of cross-stitch. Projects abandonded before their time: Here’s one from my youth, before [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 26th, 2009 tagged design work, stitching | 1 Comment »
Things I’ve finished
Last time I showed my large collection of WIPs. This time I’ll show that I do actually finish some things (besides design models). This isn’t a complete collection. There are some things that have been given away, framed, or aren’t currently stored with the other finished things. In fact, now I’m wondering where one is. [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 18th, 2009 tagged stitching | 3 Comments »
WIPs – I haz them
How many Works In Progress do you have? Last week I worked on straightening up my craft office and discovered that I had twenty-two! And that doesn’t include any designs in progress, since I count those separately. Most of the WIPs are from before I started designing, so you can see how designing impedes stitching [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 15th, 2009 tagged stitching | 2 Comments »
Stitching and other things
Last week I went to both of the stitch nights at my LNS’s. The first, at Needle and Thread, is the first Wednesday of the month. This also happened to be the night that Sonic was offering free root beer floats. So we all packed into a car and went to the local Sonic for [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 11th, 2009 tagged design work, stitching | 1 Comment »
Beating back the mess
I am by nature, a person of clutter. I have worked hard over the past few years to try and keep my natural messiness in check. Couple that with a creative endeavor and maybe you can imagine what my office looks like. But if you can’t here’s a peek: Compare that to these pictures when [...]