August 30, 2010 | Posted 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 its own – but this is of a more handmade nature. Curated by Leah Buckareff of Cold Snap Bindery and hosted by La Bastellerie, you can come admire, goggle at and even buy the curiosities on display.
I’m taking part with one of the first pieces of stumpwork I [...]
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August 20, 2010 | Posted 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 wanted another excuse to do some Ghiordes Knots (because god knows it’s not like I haven’t already been putting them in everything I’ve stitched for the last year or so) and I had a vague curiousity about what would happen if I used two differently coloured threads in a Bullion [...]
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July 8, 2009 | Posted 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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July 5, 2009 | Posted 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 want this blog to be the home of my embroidery activites and so I’m going to put up these few pieces from my recent exhibition.
Like the heart, this was inspired by kitschy flash tattoos. I didn’t keep the same style going through all pieces though, as [...]
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June 29, 2009 | Posted in: Stumpwork
Well, I’ve finally started this blog, after a long time of thinking about it and procrastinating. It’s still getting tweaked a bit, so the page will change over the next few weeks, but I figured I may as well start now. So this is my stitching space!
Hi, I’m Jacinta and I embroider.
This piece is another of the stumpwork tattoo-inspired embroideries I did a while ago. You can see more on my Flickr page.
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