September 15, 2010
Needlework as Art: Online Book Worth a Look!
Needlework as Art, by Lady Marianne Alford and published in 1886, is definitely worth a look – and, if you’re a Lover of Old Needlework Books, it’s worth reading.
September 14, 2010
A Little Bit of Lattice Filling
Lattice Filling is one of my absolute favorite crewel embroidery-type fillings. It’s not relegated just to crewel work, of course, but I think it would be categorized under that type of needlework.
September 13, 2010
Stumpwork Tiles Winner!
It looks like a lot of people are interested in the Stumpwork Tiles book! It was fun reading all your comments and seeing what designs people prefer. In fact, I actually started to count up the “favorites” so I could list some statistics, but I quit after the first page of comments! If you’re interested in statistics, though, feel free to count them up!
But really, you’re not here for the stats – you just want to know who the winner is, and I can’t say that I blame you! Continue reading “Stumpwork Tiles Winner!”
September 12, 2010
Spot Sampler Progress
The needlework project that’s consuming most of my stitching time lately – especially those 15 minute bouts of stitching – is this spot sampler for the high school level Needle Arts class that I’m currently teaching. I’m desperately trying to get Far, Far Ahead of my students, but I’m not quite as far enough ahead as I would like to be.
September 10, 2010
Stumpwork Tiles Book Give-Away
Well, because I love the book, and because I just love my readers and I think you all deserve a copy of the Stumpwork Tiles book I reviewed yesterday for your own libraries, today I’m going to give one away!
If you’d like to win your very own copy, read on! Continue reading “Stumpwork Tiles Book Give-Away”
September 9, 2010
Stumpwork Tiles Book by Jane Nicholas: Book Review
Stumpwork & Goldwork Embroidery Inspired by Turkish, Syrian & Persian Tiles by Jane Nicholas finally arrived! And I’m pretty darned excited to show you this beautiful book!
I’ll start with a teaser of the endpapers in the book:
Pretty, eh? I just love endpapers. Continue reading “Stumpwork Tiles Book by Jane Nicholas: Book Review”
September 8, 2010
Blackwork Fish Fin-ished.
This Blackwork Fish embroidery project has dragged on long enough, hasn’t it? In my imagination, the project had become a big googly-eyed monster, and every time I sat down to do some stitching, it stared at me with a Certain Look that I generally ignored. But last night was different. Last night, I said, “That’s it! Like it or lump it, I’m finishing you now, and your little bubbles besides!”
And so I did. It’s not the best finish in the world, but by gum, it’s finished.
First, this is where we left off on the Blackwork Fish:
