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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
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!
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
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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