Wow! I am truly amazed. Sometime very late Saturday night my blog received its 10,000th visit.
I would like to give some special giveaway to celebrate, but being in transition, I can’t right now. So I’ll be picking out another milepost in the near future on which to do that. It will probably be some [...]
Archive for June, 2008
10,000 Visits!
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Samplers, TIF on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Design Ideas in Strange Places
Posted in Design, Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Hiking, Needlework, Samplers, TIF, Virginia on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was able to complete the second corner section of my blackwork snail trail yesterday. The “story” these corners tell is of waiting with varying degrees of patience.
The other two corner spaces will mirror these across the diagonal. As I see the picture I’m thinking the brown corner is a little too dark [...]
Nearly Finished
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Samplers, TIF on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first corner section of the snail trail is completed. Three more to go.
Working on the "Trail"
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, TIF on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve moved into the final corner sections of the snail trail, but because they’re much larger sections, it is, of course taking longer to fill them with blackwork.
The first corner is started but my goal of at least one section per day will probably need to shift to one every other day because of the [...]
More TIF Progress
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Samplers, TIF on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Another section on the snail trail was completed yesterday. Now I’m moving on to the outer round of triangles.
River Crossing
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Samplers, TIF, Virginia on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In our travels yesterday we took the Jamestown Ferry across the James River from Surry to Jamestown. It was a beautiful day for the fifteen-minute crossing.
The Williamsburg,
the Pocahontas,
and the Surry, which we rode. The landing at Jamestown is the site of the original Jamestown settlement. We didn’t visit Jamestown on [...]
Butterflies, Dragonflies, and Birds
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Hiking, Nature, Needlework, Samplers, TIF, Travel, Virginia on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I completed another section on the snail trail:
I really like this pattern (on the left) that is another from the selection of blackwork fill-in patterns I’ve been using. Now I’ll be filling in the other two sections to mirror these. I’ll need to complete one section a day to finish this piece [...]
One Step (Stitch) at a Time
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Hiking, Nature, Needlework, Samplers, TIF, Virginia on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Traveling along the snail trail I’ve moved into the next round of sections with a pomegranate blackwork pattern from
Fill-in Patterns from Sixteenth Century Blackwork Embroideries.
If you squint your eyes you can see the swirl, especially in the darker colors.
My goal of making a post each day on this piece is sometimes hard [...]
More Tracks
Posted in Cycling, Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Hiking, Knitting, Nature, Needlework, Samplers, Spinning, Travel, Virginia on June 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One more round is completed on the snail trail.
Yesterday we did some driving around the area. We were on some back roads south of Petersburg and found this water area. We weren’t able to find the name of it–don’t know if it is swamp, pond, or river–but we were amazed at the thousands of [...]
Summer Stitching
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Hiking, Knitting, Needlework, Virginia on June 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s now officially summer and one more section is completed on the snail trail blackwork block for my June TIF project. It will take some diligent stitching to finish this piece by the end of the month as I move into the larger sections and use more complicated patterns.
Today is the official start [...]
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