This has been a busy two months. Almost on the brink of too busy, it’s starting to lighten up. One of the projects that has been falling to the wayside amid all the paying gigs, time sensitive matters, and day to day necessities is my couch.
Here it was before I started.
It was poorly manufactured and [...]
Satin stitch has to be my favorite embroidery technique. Of course, it takes up the most floss and the most time, but I think the returns warrant the extra effort and supplies.
As I promised here, I would show you a thrifty project soon. I’m using one of the $1 pillow cases and “coloring in” the [...]
Continuing with the row house doll carrier started here.
Once the walls were all connected, I sewed the “floor” on, so now the shape was like a bucket. Here’s a picture of the whole thing inside-out and upside-down (which is pretty much how you sew it).
Even though I started out with the felt matching the calico [...]
Background: I live in DC and I have a love/hate relationship with the city. When I love it, I really love it, but when I hate it, oh boy…you get the idea. Currently, I madly adore it. I’ve been taking lots of meandering walks around my neighborhood while I run errands, taking pictures to document [...]
I am, admittedly, not into soccer or “football”. But, I do have a lot of friends who are. Actually, they are downright football hooligans. And so, their enthusiasm for the World Cup, starting today, has rubbed off a tiny bit.
Behold, the start of a fabric soccer ball:
It doesn’t look like much now, but that’s because [...]
I just wanted to post a work in process that I’ve been picking up here and there for the last year or so. It’s a cross stitch canvas that is 7 inches x 6.5 inches in cranberry and what Crayola and Wikipedia calls “Brink Pink.” I think the impetus of the motif might have been [...]