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Embroidery Tool Kit
The folks at &Stitches are having a competition! And so here is a bit of my embroidery tool kit as my entry. I made this needle book a few months ago, and I love it to death, wobbly binding and...
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Hexagons are go
I finished piecing hexagons for my mug rug: Yay! Now I need to trim it to a rectangle, figure out what I want to use for the backing, quilt it and bind it. I keep being surprised at how quick and...
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Hexigoodness
I thought it’d take more than one evening to stitch the binding on the hexagon mug rug since I’d never done it before, but it went much faster than I expected. I feel pretty much ready to tackle the...
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A Visit from the Hexagon Fairy
Lately I’ve been thinking about pincushions and about how my regulation tomato pincushion isn’t the most convenient thing in the world to use when I’m sewing. I saw the skinny pincushion tutorial from...
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Just a quickie – Hexagon pincushion FO
I had a little bit longer post in mind, but I went to the library book sale at lunch instead. (Yay books for a dollar!) I need to get back to work, but I’m just going to put this here first. Hexy...
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Wherein I Actually Do Some Spinning and Knitting
It’s been, erm, a while since I posted. I owe a few people comment replies, and I was having this weird social anxiety argh talking to people is hard moment — okay, that’s me all the time and not just...
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Escape Velocity
I started this piece well over a year ago, shortly before I broke my wrist. It started out as a tiny doodle in a notepad. I constructed a big honking spiral, transferred it to the back piece of an old...
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A Stitch-Resist Dyeing Experiment (which I’m ecstatically happy about)
Lately I’ve been doing a bit of dyeing, something I’ve wanted to try out for quite a while. I bought a set of three little jars each of mixing primaries of Procion MX dyes to use on cotton fabric and...
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