Archive for the 'stitching' Category
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I’ve been stitching
Here is my first ever, stitched and finished by me, biscornu:
For the record, I stitched the “Oak Tree Biscornu“, but didn’t do the finishing. Also, for the record, stitching with white thread through two other white threads on white fabric is hard on the eyes, but I like the finished effect.
This design has a [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on January 28th, 2010 tagged stitching | 3 Comments »
New Toy
So, after saving my pennies forever, I was finally able to splurge on a new Digital SLR camera. It isn’t really a splurge, because it will get lots of use taking pictures of stitching model, and we already have a bunch of lenses from a short stint of portrait/event photography a few years ago.
Here’s [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on December 11th, 2009 tagged cat, design work, stitching | 3 Comments »
Christmas Ornaments and other things
Y’all are great for help in the inspiration department! I can already feel my mojo starting to come back. In fact, I did some rough sketches of….dragons. Hmmm, I’ll have to work on the Christmas Ornaments. I am getting my stitching done, though:
Note: that design won’t be out until October – [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 15th, 2009 tagged design work, stitching | Comment now »
Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty
It isn’t actually putty, and I didn’t find it in my armpit one midsummer morning, but it is a lump of green resin:
It turns out that when you try to mix resins in a high temperature it sets more rapidly. I was going along my merry way, pouring the resin into a set of [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on July 7th, 2009 tagged design work, stitching | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Published by cross eyed kat on June 11th, 2009 tagged design work, stitching | 1 Comment »
Busy is good
Long time, no post, but the good news is that I have been busy. We’re quickly moving from Spring into Summer here in Texas, and my roses are in full bloom:
Also, my new funky hibiscus plants started to bloom:
And I went to another crawfish boil:
May means the Giro d’Italia at our house, including fantasy [...]