Entries Tagged as ‘Embroidery’

June 13, 2008

Offensive AND Cute

Bad language ahead.  Consider yourself warned.
 
I have been having a bad day or two.  Someone has upset me very much by being a big meanie bum.  Much worse than usual.  I’d like to think I am a nice sort of person, so I don’t name names or talk behind backs.  So where do I put [...]

October 5, 2007

WTF?!

Oh man, this is not cool.  Not cool at all.

Looks like a bit of a blank canvas doesn’t it?  Yeah, well it is not.   This pic was taken at 7am, but at 8am the morning before I had just finished tracing the design on to it.  They are supposed to fade over the course of [...]

April 13, 2007

Crafting for the wee ones

Sorry I have been so quiet.  But I have been crafting my butt off.  Mostly I have been working on swap packages, of course, my usual excuse.  Well, one would think I would have used my time over the recent Easter break to finish up my outstanding swap crafts.  But I did not.  I realized all [...]

February 20, 2007

Tea time

Yeah!  Lady Llanalla has received the package I sent her for Craftster’s tea time swap.  This means I can now show you all the crafts that went into it.  I embroidered her a set of napkins first off.

This is my best embroidery to date.  I made sure of it because I didn’t want to embarrass myself (Lady L [...]

January 22, 2007

Those pesky towels

Done!  The hand towels that had been giving me so much trouble, finished.  As you can see, I gave up on satin stitch completely by the time it came to stitching my own towel.

It seems that using the thicker cotton was indeed the fix I needed.  Still, this remained very difficult in the end.  Perhaps a [...]

January 15, 2007

Embroidery, as promised

Hi ya’ll.  I mentioned some embroidery in my last post, pretty rude seeing as I didn’t have any pictures to flash.  Well, now I have ‘em.

Here are the polos.  Won’t we look cute?  Urgh.  Not too cute I hope, I’ll have to be careful where we (BF and I) wear these.  If you’d like to see [...]