I was going to start this post with a cute "One year, $XXXX in fabric, and uncountable stitches later" but actually calculating how much I've spent on fabric in the past year was seriously anxiety provoking so I gave up. Twelfth Night 2019 has come and gone! Thanks to Heather for the great photo of [...]
Category: Embroidery
T-minus 5 days
Yeah I signed up for too much stuff. That's ok! I think I'll get it done! My Spanish Burgundian dress is DONE, pictures to follow. I did kind of um...fuck up... Because I had one of my old tranzado scarves that I was going to dye to make the sash.....and I left it in Berkeley. [...]
Greetings from Ojai!
Happy Christmas all, I am at a rich person resort in SoCal with my relations. It's beautiful but a very odd experience, given that I identify much more with the people working the front desk than I do the other guests. Ah, well, won't hurt to get out of my comfort zone. I'm also confusing [...]
Rooster Dudes
Ok, firstly, the Lipperheide Punto de Milano project has been banished. This thing. Gone. Adios. No more. ....ok, I didn't throw it away or anything, it's hidden in a corner of my sewing basket, but mentally it is dead to me. Why? Well, it was too sloppy, the thread/fabric combo really didn't work, and it's [...]
Two over, two diagonal, two up
I haven't shared any embroidery here for a while, but things are ticking along! Firstly we have the big boy: 16th C Italian Sampler at the V&A I'm doing the motif on the left-hand edge, it's about halfway done. Piper's Silk floss on Ferragamo linen from Britex. I've found beeswaxing the floss silk makes it [...]
The Zen of Counting– And Reversibility
I'm officially obsessed with 16th century blackwork embroidery. I've done a little bit of it before, but I'm not sure it ever made it to the blog. However this has recently exploded into complete insanity--fueled, unsurprisingly, by a trip to Britex Fabrics. Britex is a high-end fabric store in San Francisco, and a total icon. [...]
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