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Wunderkabinett

in Events, Featured, Stumpwork

I love Wonder Cabinets. I love the original Victorian ones, full of fossils and bones and other curiosities. The things that kind of freak you out with the horrid fascination of someones toenail collection or dried umbilical cord. Why, just, why would you store that?

Now Berlin is getting one of [...]
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Simple stumpwork spider

in Featured, Projects, Stumpwork

How’s that for alliteration?

This spider was a fun little thing I did while playing around with knots. As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been on a big knot thing recently – so large that I’m wondering if macrame is going to be appearing in my near future.

In this case I mainly [...]
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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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A slightly wanton sampler

September 3, 2010 | Posted in: Crewel, Projects

Am I alone in disliking samplers? I don’t dislike the idea of a sampler – in the end a lot of what I stitch is just because I’d like to try some new techniques out. But most of the samplers out there… well historical stitching has never been my thing. I’m really glad there are people who love examining, preserving and recreating historical embroideries, but it’s not what flips my switch.

And just doing the alphabet again? I can already count to nine thanks.

But the concept of a sampler – using it as a way of gathering and practising techniques – [...]

Working with wool: Appleton

August 16, 2010 | Posted in: Crewel, Projects

So who’s had experience with wool before? I must admit I’ve avoided it for years, I think mainly because it reminded me of those orange and brown 1970s tapestries which were somewhat dominant in my childhood.

Sure they’re retro cool now, but that didn’t stop my aversion. I’ve never been known as a trend-setter after all.

So the last time I made it to a well-stocked embroidery shop (xxx in sydney – and why I have to travel halfway around the world to find decent supplies is a topic for another time) I grabbed a few dozen wools, including the Appletons I’m [...]

It’s a crewel world

August 13, 2010 | Posted in: Crewel, Projects

Have you ever tried crewel? I’ve done little bits and pieces over the years, worked some crewel stitches into other pieces – mainly just in normal stranded floss. In fact, those Pekin knots I complained about previously was me dabbling a little.

However it just wasn’t working in floss and so that particular WIP went back into the drawer. Now, though, I’ve finally dared to broach the whole wool theme and I’ve grabbed that design again and restarted.

So this is where it was: I was working on floss on a thick red fabric and those knots, not to put too fine a [...]

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Wunderkabinett

Simple stumpwork spider

Cross Stitch Patterns Now Here!

City of Craft Toronto Installation

Cross stitch graffiti

freehand temari

anchors away!

inspired by tattoos

my flaming, stumpwork heart

Blog

A slightly wanton sampler

Working with wool: Appleton

It’s a crewel world

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