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Cross Stitch Patterns Now Here!

in Cross stitch, Featured

Well here it is, after a loooonnngggg time in the making, the first Stitchalicious cross stitch patterns!

The first series to be released are The Virgins and came out of a collaboration with Berlin-based Chilean artist Karolina Kruz, the creative force behind Luciluxx. I mean, go and [...]
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City of Craft Toronto Installation

in Featured, Projects

A while back I tweeted that I was accepted into the City of Craft festival in Toronto in December, so I figured I’d give you a quick shot of the work-in-progress. I had a very definate idea in mind for this, wanting to emulate stencil graffiti in stitch and so [...]
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Cross stitch graffiti

in Cross stitch, Featured

Two and a half years ago TheAnticraft opened up submissions for their book and -much to my astonishment- accepted my proposal. Unfortunately, I only found their email really close to the deadline, plus I was in Australia on holidays and I didn’t have any of the materials I [...]
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freehand temari

in Featured, Miscellaneous, Projects

Y’know sometimes, when you just get so damn excited about something working out, that you go ahead and try and expand on it and totally screw it up?

Yep, well that happened to me with temari.

I tried my first temari and it worked out better than I expected (after the first [...]
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anchors away!

in Featured, Stumpwork

Last one from the tattoo themed exhibition. This one used a lot more goldwork techniques (oh, the couching!), something which I’m still learning but loving.

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inspired by tattoos

in Featured, Stumpwork

Now I’m playing a little bit of catch up here – this piece (and the one which’ll go up in the next few days) have been blogged about before on my old blog and on flickr. Apologies to all who’ve already seen it, but I really [...]
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my flaming, stumpwork heart

in Featured

I’m currently working on a series of classic tattoo-inspired stumpwork pieces. Stumpwork is an old English embroidery technique which creates 3D pieces. I love doing it, but most of the stuff that’s out there is very… medieval. So I’m trying something different, and making it up a bit. Some of [...]
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Pekin Knot Hell

February 22, 2010 | Posted in: Crewel

Has anyone else tried Pekin Knots (also called China Knots, but not to be confused with Pekingese Stitch apparently)? I decided to stretch myself a bit into more crewel work – I’ve done a bit before, but that was mostly pretty basic stuff and not really pushing it. But I’ve got a grafitti project on the go at the moment and decided this might be just the time to try some new stuff. Flicking through the little Anchor Book of Crewelwork Stitches, I found the Pekin knot combined with some padded satin stitch and thought that would work well.

And it [...]

String Or Nué update: too many swirls?

February 2, 2010 | Posted in: Miscellaneous, Projects

I’ve been hammering away slowly at the string Or Nué project I started last year. I’d run into a bit of a problem in that I started the whole thing with a ball of string we happened to have in our kitchen drawer… and after about ten hours of stitching was done it seemed pretty clear that thi s wasn’t going to last for the full portrait. So then I spent months hunting around Berlin for string that wasn’t horrible, plastic-coated stuff so that I could continue.

I found a few likely candidates a few weeks ago and started of again. [...]

Embroidery Course Next Week!

January 27, 2010 | Posted in: Courses, Events

If there’s anyone who’s going to be in Berlin next week, why not come along to my embroidery class at La Bastellerie? Thursday Feb 4th I’ll be doing a 3-hour basic introduction for anyone who has never picked up a needle, or who would just like a bit of help with the simple stuff. One month later, Thursday March 4th will be a slightly more advanced class, including transferring designs, stitching onto clothing and how to do some of the more complex stitches (French knots anyone?). You can do each independantly of each other and the price is 20€ without [...]

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Cross Stitch Patterns Now Here!

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