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Do you doodle?
The other day I talked about the business side of designing, so today I’m going to talk a little bit about the creative side of designing.
I don’t sit down in front of a blank sketchbook/graph paper/computer and try to make a design come. First, I need that little nugget called “inspiration.” [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on February 24th, 2009 tagged cycling, design work, stitching | Comment now »
I haz a cold
While this cold is not as bad as the 24-hour flu I had two days before leaving for Nashville Market, it is longer lasting. It is just your usual run-of-the mill sinus congestion thing. It is all in my ears, so I can’t hear and I can only use the Afrin for one [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on February 20th, 2009 tagged cycling, design work, knitting, stitching | Comment now »
A more detailed Tour of Missouri, then more cross stitch
While escaping from Hurricane Ike, DH and I found in Missouri a cosmic collision of bicycling and cross-stitch. How often does a professional bicycling race coincide with a TNNA trade show? Ok, there’s a chance it might happen every year now, but since this was only the second year of the Tour of [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 24th, 2008 tagged TNNA, cycling, design work, famous people, stitching, travel | 48 Comments »
Evacuation Vacation
It has been quite busy lately around the Cross Eyed Kat lair. First, there was all the prep work to do for the St. Charles Market aka the Fall Needlework Market. Once I got everything to this state, I still had to do the printing. This was a bit tricky as I [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 18th, 2008 tagged TNNA, cycling, travel | Comment now »
If it’s not one thing, it’s another
First the Russians, now hurricanes! Thanks for all the good vibes from everyone. My brother and his family are doing fine, having spent a week as refugees in Armenia (it wasn’t all bad, apparently the hotel had a pool, so the kids had fun). They are now back in Tbilisi and keeping [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on September 3rd, 2008 tagged TNNA, cycling, design work, knitting, stitching | Comment now »
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: the Tour, a bicycle, [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 29th, 2008 tagged contest, contest winners, cycling | 2 Comments »
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 phones [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 7th, 2008 tagged Other, contest, cycling | 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 [...]