Oh! Embroidered 3 finished :)

Oh number 3, you were a lot of work... 

I wanted you to have the density of a tapestry, but of a different feel... 

silken papery threads woven into a paper cousin; fibre held together by fibre. 

I dreamed of how you would turn out with each stitch... 

I wanted you to be a smooth, even texture that pops out from its surface like a sculpture

... and now you're finished!

Oh! Embroidered 3 is in my big cartel shop :)

Stitchery in progress

My day job has been taking most of my time lately so it's been "slowly slowly" with the 
progress on my new piece... grabbing a minute here and a minute there when I can.



I wanted to achieve more of a tapestry look this time... heavier but still with bare peeks 
of canvas showing through to throw the design into relief :)







As always, when I'm getting close to the finishing post, I hesitate more and more over each 
stitch, not wanting to go too far... and spend an inordinate amount of time looking at the back 
of the work ;)



Hope you're having a good week :)

Workroom update

I've been a bit quiet here... but I have been working on some ideas, like printing notepads 
and tiny pouches. This one is a birthday gift for a lovely friend but there are more on the way.







There are also some new designs in the copper on denim collection and I've been 
accommodating to the smaller sizing with a mini version of my Oasis block.





Still working on these but hopefully they'll be in the shop soon. What have you been up to?

Mini break :)

I've just returned from a quick little holiday to Sydney. It was raining and we had to negotiate 
with the wants of two teenage daughters but I did manage to visit my favourite favouritest 
Sydney destination, The Museum of Contemporary Art :) Love this place...











Sorry for the lack of attributions (and of course the dodgy photography!). Just wanted to post 
a visual postcard of what I saw :)



Hope it's been a good week for you too.

New pouches in the shop!

Happy to report that these lovelies are now in the shop :)

Copper/Denim Pouch

I've started making up the Copper/Denim pouches. This is the first one, a gift for someone special :)













Hope you're having a productive weekend too?

Days for Girls

The lovely Cath at My Bearded Pigeon is organising a washer crochet-fest for Days for Girls 
and I've been making up a few to contribute. I had some cotton yarn in my stash that I've 
been using and here is the result...









I'll be sending them off soon. Thanks so much for organising this Cath!

There's still time to hook some up if you're interested... just contact Cath :)