https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7BFdjDDJ2Q Gentle reader, I keep threatening to spew out a torrent of books like a cyclone from which the world may never recover -- bwahaha. But seriously. My life is about finding the time and energy to choose from the millions of things I want to do, and then doing as many of them [...]
Tag: cross stitch
Studio Visit
I have been making things all my life. But until a couple months ago, I was a craftsman. I didn't really understand the difference between arts and crafts. For as long as I can remember, I have been enormously anxious about drawing. I have always felt that I wouldn't be able to draw a representation [...]
New White House Linens
When I arrive at the Pearly Gates, I want to make sure I have something to say for myself. I don't want it to be said that I left the American Soviet-Themed Housewares community hanging. Their needs are important to me, and I'm proving it. A chicken in every pot, a hammer and sickle on [...]
F It With Flowers
Free Pattern: Somebody’s Doing the Raping
Cross stitch pattern pdf for this picture, 96w x 120h, courtesy of knitpro's nice little free app. (pdf downloadable below the pictures) Because somebody is doing it, duh. Thank God for Trump's giant Mexican rape fence. trump2016
Knotwork
Altar cloth
I made this for my adopted dad. He's a eucharistic minister, which means he goes around on Sundays carrying communion to homebound people, in nursing homes and the like. So I made him this little altar cloth, which came out about 8" x 7" total, on 36 count evenweave. I had to fudge the crown [...]
Wildlife refuge art bomb
This is a monogram from one of the Priscilla books. (They can be downloaded for free from the Library of Congress.) I liked this tree a lot, and spent the afternoon here. This is another enormous tree.
Roses are Red
With thanks to whoever wrote the original Insanity Wolf meme: This is cotton floche on linen. The edge is buttonholed, then a few rows of filet crochet (perle cotton, sorry I forget which size), then a tatted edge. A gift for a dear friend. The inner edge is a braided plait stitch, which I found [...]
Beeton’s Big Book
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15147/15147-h/15147-h.htm Beeton's Big Book is a definitive resource for all things hand sewing. You can buy it on amazon, or access it for free courtesy of Project Gutenberg at the link above.
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