OMGOMGOMG!!!!

She is left-handed, so I will need to transpose, *BUT* it actually makes sense now! Over a year of searching for good instructions (and countless books bought) I find something that adequately explains the dreaded PLAITED BRAID STITCH!

Holy Macaroni....I love this place!

DeVere Yarns is the best, ever!! I seriously, seriously <3 them with my itty bitty heart. I barely had time to fondle my purchases last night (no pics, yet!) before I went to bed.

This is one of those places that has so much *stuff* that I want, but I don't have any good reference for the sizes/colors listed, (mostly because I need to educate myself of such things) so it's something that I would just about kill to have a brick 'n mortar version to browse through.

At any rate, if anyone has silk embroidery to do, I cannot recomment highly enough their silk embroidery thread. It is to *DIE FOR*....so lustrous and deep and verrah, verrah sexay.

0% Motivation for Camp Dress...

....so I worked some more on my pin pillow. I'm giving myself one more afternoon of laziness, then it's down to some serious business. (If I feel up to it, I actually may even start tonight....)

I'm still struggling a bit with making curves nice and smooth, especially curves that go to the right, but it's coming right along. I am now officially 3/8 done, and I'm starting on the last section that will mark the 1/2 way mark! As soon as I'm done with this guy, I'll be moving the frame so I can easily access the other side. Yay! If I were to go back now, I would know how to handle the strawberries and columbines better. The first flower I actually *like* is the carnation....you can actually see the progression of my techinical skill from one flower to the next! (Not to say I'm skilled at all, but I've been learning a lot!)


This is how far I got after one episode of "Glee" and one episode of "Chuck". It doesn't look like much, but there is a *lot* of unpicking represented here!

I'm actually hopeful I will finish this embroidery project, so I splurged this morning and bought some silk for the tassels and cording. I need to find some good silver gilt, or just use some of the gold I have in my stash already. Hmmmmm. Well, miles to go before I get to that point!

Thrifty McThrifty!

Business cards make awesome thread winders! I bought three of them (nice ones, that is) at the event last weekend, and while they are beautiful and wooden and everything, I can't buy 65 of them. So.....

First chainstitch project

y crewel wools came in yesterday!! I can't believe how beautiful all the colors are! I felt like a kid opening a brand new pack of crayons. YUM!

I don't quite know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm pleased that it looks as good as it does!


Next up....trace out the coif pattern!!