And BTW, I forgot to mention that today is our 29th!!!!!! wedding anniversary - how's that for a case of OCD about the other stuff? Sigh, nobody tell Himself...
(original post 21 Mar 2011)
And BTW, I forgot to mention that today is our 29th!!!!!! wedding anniversary - how's that for a case of OCD about the other stuff? Sigh, nobody tell Himself...
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(original post 21 Mar 2011)
In order to be nice to That Publisher Woman, who is working hard to finalize and actualize the Needlin' Fools EGA Seminar at the end of the month, I'm having a vacation from blackwork designing (though not from laying Cunning Plans...). I have to - anything I design I immediately want to stitch, and anything I get charted and stitched I want to get published, and this just doesn't help put the seminar on! So in its place - gotta do something with those Idle Hands! - I'm poking my nose into my ancestors' bidness with some genealogical research. I made a tiny little start at it in the late 90s, before the last time my computer was struck by lightning - there's a reason this area is called "Thunder Basin" and "Lightning Flats"! - those were also the days of nuthin-but-dialup, when 24K was "lightning speed". You'd enter a page, then go cook dinner or whatever while it (maybe) loaded.... Anyhow, now Auntie Liadain has DSL, and a faster computer, and genealogy software, and mercy on us there are SO many more resources out there! I "met" a cousin I didn't know I had last night, and found my first ancestor so far who was pre-Revolutionary War (don't tell any of my hillbilly kin he lived in NEW JERSEY!!!!). I'll try not to bore folks too much with that stuff, just letting my buds know where I've gone! Hope spring is springing for everyone! (original post 17 Feb 2011) Stitching away on the model for a new "Rare Needle-warks" design, as yet un-named. It's based on an 18th-century Greek (specifically Ionic) piece in the V&A. Here is the inspiration piece - And a sketch of my translation - And my progress so far, about 7 hours in. This one is fun, like stitching a jigsaw puzzle! Now if i can only come up with a NAME - someone suggested I stick with "That greek Thang", but I don't think that's quite it... Trying my best to get it finished in time for the pattern to be available at the EGA seminar "Needlin' Fools" in Kansas City, Mo the end of next month.
Meanwhile the snow is melting, spring is TRYING to sprung, and it's busy busy busy here at Little House. There are seed catalogs to wishful think about, and Cunning Plans being laid to "demodel" my kitchen, and tons of new blackwork design ideas bubbling away... Amazing what a little sunshine will do! :-D (original post 26 Jan 2011) he newest "Spanissheworke" (historically based) design from Practical Blackwork - this one is inspired by a variety of 16th-cent. Italian needlework, including a blackwork sampler in the V&A. Here's the sample pic- Available momentarily (as soon as it comes out of editting!) along with "Millefiori", first in the "Rare Needle-warks" line.... (original post 9 Jan 2011) Still having a lovely time "strolling" through online museums - the most fun are the little "folklorica" types where I get to guess which links to click because I don't speak the language - you find some unexpected things that way! :-D I found plenty of inspiration at the Hermitage to get the brain cells fired up, and I want to share the first fruits of that here! First of all, the inspiration piece- a 16th-cent Italian embroidered pillow cover, in the collection of the Hermitage Museum. And then my"translation" - pattern coming as soon as I can stitch it and write it up! |
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