Posted in Fiber Arts, Knitting, Socks, Uncategorized on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have finally completed the Cable Rib Socks that I started in January before I went to DC.
I hit a glitch on the first one with the cable as it went into the instep. Turns out there’s a “design element” in the pattern that IS the glitch. I think I agree with some other knitters [...]
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Stitch Explorer, Uncategorized on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My third row of Chicken Scratch for the Stitch Explorer Challenge is done simply with variegated Watercolours cotton. I made a “box” of four cross stitches and then laced a single strand through the legs. Each box was completed before moving on to the next one to get the color gradations.
I still like the [...]
Posted in Fiber Arts, Knitting, Socks on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was working on my Cable Rib Socks while I was in DC at the beginning of January and had decided I had made some kind of mistake because the cable didn’t seem to be working out correctly as it moved down the instep. It didn’t match the cable on the leg.
So I set [...]
Posted in Orchids on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have a new crop of orchids and they are fantastic. These plants are amazing. They have traveled back and forth across the country stuffed into a moving truck twice over the past 18 months and they just keep blooming. They were left on a porch in the heat of the summer for two weeks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been fighting another bad cold and allergies on top of that, so I haven’t been doing much fiber/textile work. But hopefully I’ll be feeling better soon and back at it.
Posted in Fiber Arts, Quilting on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have never been a good multi-tasker, and that especially applies to working on projects. I like to start a project and work on it until it’s finished. That means letting everything else go.
Obviously, that doesn’t work very well in my life, so I am trying to “retrain” myself by giving myself small tasks on [...]
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Stitch Explorer on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The next row on my Stitch Explorer Sampler is another exploration of Chicken Scratch. I doubt anyone would recognize it as that, but I used the basic ground of cross stitches, upright this time, and placed with uneven spacing to created an elongated space for wrapping with a gold thread.
I tried adding other stitches around [...]
Posted in Embroidery, Fiber Arts, Needlework, Stitch Explorer, Uncategorized on February 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The stitch for January’s Stitch Explorer Challenge is Chicken Scratch.
Chicken Scratch is traditionally applied to gingham fabric and is used to decorated items such as aprons. It employs cross stitch, running stitch and wrapping.
I immediately made a change from the standard way of doing this stitching by using 32-count pale green linen instead of gingham. [...]
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