Seems like everybody’s getting these for Christmas this year. I know I got one for everyone in my family. (Luckily “arriving late” is still going to make it by Christmas for most of them, because I shipped juuuust early enough.) Provided you don’t have to order any of the supplies, here’s the embroidery file so […]
Nobody in my family is getting dragons for Christmas, I just didn’t want the preview image to be a spoiler. That grouping shipped out yesterday as an order (gift-wrapped, so it’s someone’s Christmas present). I bought a pack of nice fluffy hand towels at Costco, since alas Bed Bath & Beyond no longer carries the […]
“Silhouette” isn’t quite right, since that’d just be a basic fill – this design is a minimalist mix of fill and satin-stitch contour. Whatever that’s called? That’s what this is. Its a bit larger than, say, the Teensy Dragon – a smidge over an inch tall, and a little less than an inch and a […]
03 Mar update: I got a chance to stitch up a sample feltie. Let me know if you use it in something! Do you feel adventurous? I haven’t had a chance to stitch this out yet, but h Here’s a little knotwork shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day. It comes with an outline so you could […]
Today was a “learning from my mistakes” sort of day. I have been dialing back on things a little to give my wrist a rest (since I worked all through Memorial Day weekend), but after a trip to Aldi I thought I’d do a little something for myself. Aldi requires a quarter deposit to free […]
I sold the last of the Pernese dragons in the Etsy shop this weekend; there are still a couple of non-Pernese ones left. I’ll restock a little when I make the instructional photos for the design, but that’ll probably be it (though the kid has expressed a little interest in piecework, and presumably they’ll be […]
Just because sometimes I struggle with my attention issues doesn’t mean I can’t have a sense of humor about it. I used to have this on a T-shirt (bought at a quilting show – the rare hobby I somehow have not gotten into… yet) and was reminded of it recently. And another impulse project was […]
As much fun as I’ve had doing (relatively) conventional things on the embroidery machine, my real intention has been to use it as a sort of CNC machine. One of the first tests I did of this capability was with a single-color version of the venerable Flower Bear pattern. A large part of teddy bear/jointed […]
Wait, wrong movie. This one was much better. I spent most of today bouncing back and forth between failing to get the Etsy shop up and running and failing to get Mew’s tail turned. (Long skinny tubes of very plush faux fur are no fun.) I needed a quick little success. I’m not thrilled with […]
Did I work on the hand sewing yesterday? Nope. Did I work on Mew today? Nope. Instead, I worked on getting some bookshelves cleared off and rearranged. And I thought to myself, “I’m going to take this tall one out of the living room where it doesn’t fit, and use it to store my active […]
