I’ve been prevaricating on the finishing process for the Floral Glove Needlecase, because it will involve glue, and I’m clumsy with that sort of thing. I’ve worked very hard on the embroidery, I’m quite pleased with most of it, and I don’t want to fall at the last hurdle! Finally, however (largely because I’ve been [...]
Browsing the blog archives for August, 2010
31 Aug 10
27 Aug 10
I’ve only recently begun to design my embroideries entirely for myself. To begin with I took painted canvases or transfers and worked them using a variety of stitches and thread combinations, depending on what I had to hand and what aspect of embroidery was catching my attention at the time. I was attracted by this [...]
24 Aug 10
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about designs being shared without the designer’s approval, and suggested that it isn’t right to do so. The post was linked to on HackerNews; then on a few more tech blogs and suddenly the whole subject was attracting attention and comments from a new range of people, [...]
20 Aug 10
While I continue to persevere with the silkwork, I am trying to keep up with the new stitches, practising on a separate cloth. In the case of the Detached Buttonhole stitch with Return, I think you can see that the fabric and the thread are not well matched, and so the structure is correct, but [...]
17 Aug 10
I’m still working away at the silkwork on the sampler. It has been so grey and miserable recently that the light has been poor and it has been difficult to make any progress at all. Some time ago I bought a daylight lamp to use in the evenings or when the natural light is poor. [...]
13 Aug 10
The design in counted cross stitch that I created, “The Cat Who Walked By Himself” (now being re-issued by Classic Embroidery – remember how excited I was a few months ago?) was such a success that I experimented with other ways in which the basic design might be used. First of all, in ordinary tent [...]
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Posted in General Embroidery, Needlepoint
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches, stitches
Tagged canvaswork, experiments, inspired by Clarice Cliff, Needlepoint, ornamental stitches, stitches
10 Aug 10
It occurred to me that now would be a good time to create some diagrams to show the design ideas that I have, so that when I refer to “backgrounds” or “side panels” it is clear what I mean. The basic fabrics are dress-weight linens, one in a sandy colour (the High Desert is not [...]
6 Aug 10
So here is the Faience Hippopotamus finished. That is, unless I decide to go over him with another layer of long and short stitch to break up some of the patterning even further… I’m reasonably pleased with him, as a matter of fact. The loose weave of the base fabric was sometimes challenging to work [...]
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Posted in Dreams of Amarna, General Embroidery
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Faience Hippopotamus, overdyed threads
Tagged Dreams of Amarna, experiments, Faience Hippopotamus, overdyed threads
3 Aug 10
Forget Peter Ustinov playing Blackbeard or Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow – piracy isn’t cool, it isn’t clever, and there is nothing endearing about it! I don’t usually attempt to produce topical posts – my embroidery is a very long-term sort of occupation! – but I care about the health of the needlecrafts industry, [...]
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