Here’s another interlaced stitch for you to try – you might find it handy for Christmas decorations and cards.
The instructions look daunting, and the first few may seem very tricky to work. But once you’ve got the idea, you’ll find the stars quick to stitch. I suggest practising on Aida fabric with a fairly thin thread until you are confident, then you can try working on other evenweave fabric or just using a circle of 8 holes made in thin card. Continue reading
My apologies for so long a gap between blog posts. My Dad went into Hereford County Hospital at the beginning of October, came out a week later, was doing well, and then ended up rushed back there again on the 8th of November. So I’ve been doing too much tearing around and organising things to do a coherent post.
Anyway, he’s making a good recovery at present, and yesterday he moved to Ludlow Community Hospital. He’ll be there for a few days, until he’s quite ready to go home. My sister is now taking over phone and visiting duties for a while, as I am off to Nottingham this morning for a weekend at Novacon 44 – the annual science fiction convention there. The box in the picture is one for the art show, as is my version of Tanya’s dragon. I’m quite pleased with the finished result now he’s mounted on a board.
I hope life will get back to somewhere near normal soon, but I’m not counting on it….
Guy Fawkes night already. About time I updated the blog.
I’m currently in a last-minute mad rush to get my art show pieces ready for Novacon – the science fiction convention I go to every year. It starts this Friday. One of the pieces I’m taking is this stitched box called Sugar Rush.
I’m doing my best to get a second stitched box finished in time, but that’s looking unlikely.
I am taking two stitchery pictures – this piece of whitework is called Shadow of the Exterminator:
Alchemical Dragon – a pastel drawing:
And several pieces of digital art, this one is An Entertainment.
Right, I’d better get back to finishing that last stitched box before it is Too Late….
Every year for the past eighteen years, I’ve been to the annual science fiction convention, Novacon, organised by the Birmingham Science Fiction Group. My nineteenth, Novacon 39, is coming up this weekend and I am busy trying to get some of my stuff together for the art show. One of the stitched boxes I want to take to the show is still only half finished, so it is a race against time.
If you see someone stitching furiously on a train to Nottingham on Friday morning, it will probably be me!
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