Time for stop number 2 on The Floss Box Fall 2012 embroidery blog tour! Special thanks for all my interviewees, it’s been lots of fun meeting each one of you. Fall Blog Tour 2012 stops: Stop 1: Sew in Love Stop 2: Isabell on Flickr, aka ColourinStitch Stop 3: coming soon Stop 4: coming soon […]
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My latest finish: I borrowed the center of the art exhibit project I have been working on (which is finished and shipped off!) to make this project. I thought it was a fun a design and I wanted to have it as a “memory” of the art project for my stack of crewel squares I
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This fall I am doing a fall blog tour of embroidery blogs. I send off questions to the keeper of the blog and get permission to post a few pictures of their work. I plan to do this up until Christmas, at least 1 a week. Maybe a few more, 12 is a nice number
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The ezine &Stitches has just published their 4th edition and have been kind enough to feature me this month! There are lots of great photos and projects and eye candy in this issue so go check it out!! Just click here to visit their blog with information. A big thanks to Nicole and Carina for
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I am ahead this month! Actually it wasn’t planned, but I was working on this little project and since it was the same size as the others, I decided it could be my journal project. I started it out as something of a study in using different yarns to help add interesting textures and surfaces.
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Here I am with this past month’s embroidery journal project! This project was inspired by the maple outside the living room window. I often sit near this window where you can see the afternoon sun shining through the trees. So this represents one of the branches that hang down, filled with leave turning all sorts
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I just finished this little doll yesterday. I consider the doll finished, but the project isn’t. But my friend Starr was chomping at the bit for a look at her. So here she is. With her treat bucket, broom and crystal hanging from her belt, she is ready for action!! I’ve been meaning to try
I’m surfacing again! The cross stitch projects are done for now, and I’m working on some new things. One of them is something I started many months ago. I ran into some road blocks because my idea for how to assemble it didn’t work, so I needed a little time to figure it out. Or
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Hi all, My embroidery journal project is now complete! I wanted to do something different this month, something that would be a little challenge of a different sort. So I chose a door to a magical, walled forest. I had to figure out ways to make the walls so they had dimension, and the door
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August has flown by. I think because I spent a greater portion of it digging around in a blueberry patch! I lost count of how many I collected, but it must have been upwards of around 50 liters. A new record! The freezer is bulging of berries. The picking stole time from everything else, pretty
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