Monday, September 10, 2007

Flagging a Bit


This got put aside a bit when I went to Seminar, but I've made some progress. I worked on it last night, too, so it's farther along than this. The flag is definitely beginning to take form, and the stitching is relatively easy with large blocks of color. I'll be working on it more once I catch the round robins up - I need to finish it in time for Timothy to frame it by April. Anyway, it's a nice project that's not giving me any problems so far.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Another Round Robin


Another one that's just -not- to my taste. At least it should go quickly and I will have it out by the end of the week. Maybe I can begin catching up on these round robins. Right now, I have two more in queue after this. None in the mail this week. Anyway, I've never even heard of this set of cartoon characters or whatever they are. The colors are certainly bright, though.

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Dense Blackwork


Looking at this picture, I realize how very dense this particular band is. There's just so much that nearly everwhere is covered. No where for the eye to rest. Haven't gotten to work on it since I went to seminar; I'll probably be able to today. Perhaps I'll learn not to tackle so many big projects at the same time.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Eric the Half a Bee


This is my other class from the ANG Seminar - Flight of Passion from Meredith Willett. I'm one of those people who like to complete one thing before going off and doing something else. With seminar classes, that's impossible and resulted in Eric the halfabee. He's my first ever piece of turkeywork, though! I think I'm going to finish the flower before going back to him.

Huswif Finished

I added the beads around the edge today, so I can call this -officially- finished. I think the beads look good for this. It counts toward my project challenge and now I am done, done, done with that designer.







Thursday, September 06, 2007

Seashell Done

The picture on the bottom shows this seashell last Friday night. The one on top is last night. I'll be mailing it out today. It's another one on my sealife round robin, for Nicola in Australia. She wants to have all these motifs stitched on separate pieces of fabric and then make them into pillows for a charity. It was another piece on Aida, and my fingers paid for it! Since Aida is so stiff, I tend to use the stab stick method of stitching, which means I slow down and I end up sticking my fingers often. Even with a blunt tapestry needle, it hurts! This piece also counts toward my project challenge.


Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Post Modern

Eventually, my teacher at Seminar promised me, this will be a three dimensional suncatcher. Honest. In the meantime, it looks like a post modern piece of something. I'm hoping to finish it this week, since it's not really stitching, but wrapping all these threads. Easy and mindless. Stay tuned. By the way, this was the Introduction to Contemporary Drawn Thread taught by Catherine Jordan.