I was hanging out with my friends at a coffee shop this weekend, making a coozie gift for someone’s birthday when my friend Sarah said, “I thought you were going to make me one of those?”
When I was done with the first, I started on the second. Here is a picture of it at play at the Lied Transplant Center/Hotel:
Stitched closed the pillow last night. Final shots going up as soon as Sara sees the results. Hope the last picture with all of those greens didn’t get everyone too excited. The brown/green brocade fabric was a little to busy to add too much. Until then, another teaser:
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Next picture: crocheted ribbon edging w/picot to hold the rings! Showed it to Tyrone, and he is very strongly against asymmetry. Had to figure out a way to keep the lace I had worked on for an hour, yet “balance” the piece a little more.
Got some stitching done this weekend. Here is a little update:
I need to clean my lens. Looks like it got a little dirty at the Nebraska game this weekend.
Took a break from crafting to just repair some of my clothes for a change. Fixed a bunch of seams in summer clothes last night. Next up winter clothes. Saw an episode of a show called _Flight_of_the_Conchords_. The characters wear 70s inspired shirts and jackets and horn-rimmed glasses, just like Tyrone. It makes me want to embroider a country-cut shirt for him.
Instead of yellow roses from Texas, I’d have to embroider some sort of NY based hemlock pattern or something. Keep your eyes open for hemlock stick figures.
When Tyrone and I went to Denver, I got these. MMMM. yellow.
“L” Hankie
I’ve got my next instructable up!
Had knitting last night at the dome. Katie finally got done with her sweater and is working on another Clapotis.
I got the Secret Gift #3 2007 finished last night. Here’s my last progress picture. I should be able to post a finished picture next week. Click through for a larger picture!
Here is the first in a series of embroidery by my great-grandmother Valeria Kielian (according to my mother):
The first one has some unfinished tree, but shows the edging detail. The second is more finished, but there is no edging detail in the picture.
This is the time of year sweaters go on sale. My goal is to “harvest” natural fibers to recycle at $1/sweater at the most. I really want to work on some shibori techniques: tying/puckering/manipulating the wool so that it resists shrinking in parts. Here’s a before picture of a failed shibori attempt:
Tyrone has asked me to make some sort of arm-covers for his slowly disintegrating computer chair. Last night, I finally followed through. I took the arms off of the failed shibori sweater and eyeballed a pattern for the arms of the chair. Here is a top view:
The openings of the arms were hemmed together with a blanket stitch. There was a hole in one of the arms, so I used an eyelet hole stitch in orange to liven it up. Here is a writer-view:
Here is a side view:
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After admiring Katherine Shaughenessy’s Crewling Kits at Wool & Hoop for years, I was inspired to order one after finding out she published a very cool looking how-to book.
I got mine in the mail a few days ago, and I’m right in the middle of the of the “Birthday Wish” project. I’ve dabbled a bit with embroidery, but I’ve always been disapointed by how minute the detail was, and how slow-moving each project turned out.
With crewling, the wool fiber stitching seems to be much more forgiving than any embroidery floss I have ever used. The first project is done on linen, and with a special crewling needle. In this case, I think it really helped to have the proper tools. The whole process seems to be moving along quickly.
Just to let you know, she’s having an awesome sale, where you can get her new book, the “Birthday Wishes” kit, everything you need to start your own project, and her wonderful 3-D crewling designs. The book is a very interesting read, not only outlining technique, but history. The second half of the book demonstrates multiple places to display your new crewling ability, including ides for lampshades, skirt/jeans embellishment, greeting cards, and other appliques.
Maybe I’ll post a picture of my progress this weekend. Have a good green beer weekend, too!
