My site was down and/or unbelievably slow most of the past day or so (in addition to periodically slowing down for no reason for a little while before that). The problem seems to be fixed now. The support folks at my web host suggested turning off the page speed optimization Apache module that I...
Tiny Velvet Ballgown of Doom
The dolls and their wardrobe are going off in the mail tomorrow. I should have mailed them yesterday, but I wasn’t done with the Tiny Velvet Ballgown of Doom yet. What does a Tiny Velvet Ballgown of Doom look like? Sort of like this: This was, to put it mildly, harder than I thought...
A Monster for Halloween
I realized, when I mentioned working on the rag dolls’ hair in passing, that I never actually posted the finished monster doll. So let’s have a Halloween monster! They seem to be getting along well. Think he’ll find her? Hair detail — I did his hair in feather stitch and was pleased by how...
Finished Blackwork Sampler & A Bit of Progress on the Calendar
I finished up the blackwork sampler just now. I don’t know what I was thinking when I did the stem stitch outline — I know I had a lot more trouble working it one-handed than I did the filling stitches, but that doesn’t explain why I made all these crazy long stem stitches. But...