I’ve been putting my TAST sampler photos on Flickr, but I don’t think I’ve talked about them here lately. (It’s not quite Tuesday, but close enough — if I don’t put this up now, it might not go up before Wednesday!) I’ve got two new ones going, one for filling stitches using the garden...
Just Doodling
I finished stuffing and sewing the stuffing opening closed on the doodle stitch owl at my knitting group yesterday — yay! I decided to go with some berry-ish clusters of French knots in the embroidered motif instead of little satin stitch circles. I completely chickened out of trying the tiny circles in satin stitch,...
Finished Calavera Pillow! and TAST Week 5
It seems like I spent about six weeks working on all these different projects without finishing anything, and now they’re getting finished all at once. I stitched most of the marigolds on the calavera project while I was at the music festival, then got the few petals done a few days ago. And today...
TAST Sampler Weeks 1-3 & Calavera Progress
I’d been toying with the idea of trying out a new embroidery stitch every week, but I hadn’t quite gotten around to starting. Then last week I found Take a Stitch Tuesday at Pintangle, and it was exactly like what I had in mind. Only, you know, organized and stuff. I started an embarrassingly...