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...
Surveyor’s Compass
Hey, I really did it! This is exactly the sort of thing I thought I’d never be able to sew. I seem to have reversed the greens from what I meant to do. I’d intended to have them follow the same light/dark pattern as the big points. That’s probably one of those things that...
Half a Compass
I got over being scared of the surveyor’s compass block and picked out fabric for it. I dithered for quite a while about the little triangle of contrast color. Most of the examples I saw used a complementary color for contrast, but what’s the complementary color of brown? Nothing flashes with brown. I figured...
The Happy Orange Bag, and a few WIPs
How about some pictures, maybe? Not long ago, Michele of Cheletopia posted these incredibly cute zippered pouches she made, and I became obsessed and had to make one. I ended up using this tutorial, and here’s what I made yesterday (complete with slightly unfortunate lighting): I am thrilled with this thing. It’s so cheerful...