Tangled Fiber Thoughts
Apologies that time seems to run ahead between these posts. I have only so many hours of comfortable productive sitting time each day, and I tend to spend them actually stitching, drafting/redacting new designs, and working on my books. Blogging often gets ignored. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been idle. Far from it. I finished […]
It has been a while since the last post. But I keep going. After all, I have a reputation for stubborn persistence to uphold. First, here’s a shot of the whole Anything Could Happen sampler, unrolled, as it was just before I began the current strip. A few things to note. First, there is much […]
As you can see, I am keeping busy. I started the yellow double running step voiding behind the lower half of the motto, as promised. I will alternate between that ultra-speedy fill and the long armed cross stitch (LACS) behind my monsters, just for the variety of doing so. But the LACS is not going […]
Progress on the glide path to Friday and beyond. First, the follow up on my raised bed garden and my use of the sitting/kneeling bench. Three types of marigolds, of graduated height and color; plus the survivor chives and a couple of basil plants to balance out the green of the chives. We also added […]
Obviously I am still at it, working away on the current embroidery, and surfing the health issues management seas. First, to present the size of the piece as a whole, here it is, fully unscrolled. No, that’s not discoloration at the bottom. Just an early morning light shadow. At 28 threads per inch, these strips […]
Moving right along, and answering questions. I’ve finished the first panel. I’ve drafted out the motto and it’s obviously in process, too. What you see here is just the second half of the phrase. The first half will go above the completed strip, but I have room to add this part without advancing the scroll, […]
Moving right along on my latest. I’m just past the point of flipping the frame over. I’ve got all the black double running outlines for the main motif done. That’s not uncommon for Azemmour Cluster pieces, but is not a usual treatment for these larger ones. In the larger museum snippets they are usually outlined […]
And the latest piece continues to grow. At this massive gauge – 28 threads per inch compared to my normal 40+, it’s mile a minute. All in all I am pleased. While the voiding is sparse (one strand of spun Au Ver a Soie’s Soie D’Alger – a thread economy measure), it is solid enough […]
As folk following along here know, I like to keep busy. I need the comfort of fiddle-food for my fingers. Waiting is particularly annoying without it. Just before heading off for my second diagnostic procedure, I had started an experiment in Buratto, on a chance find bit of cloth that mimics the weave of that […]
Just because things are a bit in the air here at String Central right now, doesn’t mean that our dedication to Relentless Forward Progress has been put aside. There are things to do, things to make, and accomplishments waiting to be notched and acknowledged. First, we did have a wonderful weekend of low key celebration […]