Posted in embroidery, tagged color, embroidery, embroidery floss, family, love on January 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Over the holidays, the unthinkable happened. My mom gave me her boxes of embroidery floss.
These boxes are full of at least 100 colors of embroidery floss, each wound on a card with that color’s number written on it in my mother’s beautiful, perfect handwriting. I honestly couldn’t believe it when she gave them to me. [...]
Posted in embroidery, tagged backstitch, color, embroidery, French knots, orange, presents, split stitch, stem stitch on December 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Mischief is afoot in the form of some secret embroidery.
Stay tuned for further developments. Hopefully one of those developments will be the continuing improvement of my French knots…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blog, embroidery, knitting, sick, Thanksgiving on November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hi guys. I feel like I need to apologize for the blog sucking lately. I guess, in my defense, there are a few reasons:
1. Sick. Everyone at my work has had the same crud, and I caught it. Yuck! I’ve been watching West Wing.
2. Haven’t been knitting, mostly because it’s dry. I feel like I [...]
Posted in embroidery, knitting, tagged Cascade 220, embroidery, knitting, moebius knitting, October Lady Sweater, projects, puppies, scarves, stripes, sublime stitching on November 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Hi… so… I know it’s been a while… but I promise… I’m still knitting.
Witness:
The February/October/November? Lady Sweater now has a sleeve. I’m really languishing on the second one (ain’t that the way?) but I’m hoping that scoring some buttons soon will inspire me. Goal is to have this done for the boy’s performance, which approaches [...]
Posted in crochet, embroidery, food, tagged Cascade 220, cheezburger, crochet, embroidery, halloween, sometimes I'm cool, toy on November 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Being a Lolcat for Halloween was really fun. Some people had no idea what I was, to which I replied, “Well, it’s this internet phenomenon… pictures of weird cats with silly captions… cats like cheezburgers…” and received questioning stares. But! Those who recognized my costume were really stoked.
Regardless, everyone loved the crochet cheezburger. That’s right. [...]
Posted in embroidery, knitting, tagged Cascade 220, embroidery, hedgehogs, home, knitting, log cabin blanket, love, sublime stitching on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I finished another tea towel yesterday, and I’m really, really excited about it:
I’ve been wanting to put this idea into stitches ever since I bought Sublime Stitching’s Forest Friends pattern. Two hedgehogs. In love. A reference to me and my boy: I love purple and he loves blue (and was once Sonic for Halloween). I’m [...]
Posted in embroidery, tagged cute, embroidery, kitten friend on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
o hai.
Isn’t it funny how the Internets go quiet over the weekend? Anyway, snippets of what’s shaking over here:
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while — embroider something featuring two hedgehogs in love. Here it is, in the process of being realized on a tea towel. I love how crisp the stitches came [...]
Posted in embroidery, sustainability, tagged conserving, embroidery, kitchen, sublime stitching, sustainability on September 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My mission for this past week has been to embroider some tea towels. More specifically, my mission was to embroider tomatoes onto a tea towel.
Success. I took the towel with me this weekend and we used it, instead of paper towels, to wipe off our cutting board. The towel was a little stained by the [...]
