Archive for the ‘stitchy’ Category

Art™ gallery view

Oglethorpe Gallery

406 E Oglethorpe (@ Habersham)

March 19-31, Mon-Fri, 10am to 6pm

Reception March 26, 6-9 pm

Some images

Quote Sampler™ and cockroach detail

Family Portraits™ installed and some details

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Mall of America Map Sampler™

Cookie™ & detail

Cotton floss on white silk, Kantha style

Barcode™

QR Code Quilt™

Secret message encoded within.   This is a working QR code that can be read with a smart phone.

Social Networking Dress

Designer Toilet Suite™

Acrylic latch hook

Social Networking Dress™

Quilt™

Rug™

These two little guys have been stored at room temperature, wrapped, but not sealed since the day I bought them and glued the date on in rhinestones.

Hooray! I finally finished this piece; not including design time (roughly 20 hours) the stitching in this piece took 134 hours, 24 minutes and 29 seconds.

21 x 19 inches. Tea dyed linen; cotton, silk, linen, velvet, wool, metal, and synthetic floss; rhinestones, crystal and glass beads.

The pictures don’t do justice, you will just have to come to the show and see the piece in person. I found the quote in “No Logo” by Naomi Klein, although it originally appeared in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The layout  is loosely based on a 200 year old Quaker sampler.

I would like to introduce my two new friends to you. They don’t have names, but handsome husband thinks I should name them after royalty.

What do you think? Best idea(s) will receive Wacky Packages and other fun in the mail…

This is the back side of a valentine gift I made for my handsome husband. Wool on linen.

I think it looks beautiful, in its own quiet way.

I am hoping this will be the last piece I have to make for my thesis show (March 19-March 31), it is a bit different, a quote sampler based loosely on this old sampler:

For our edification, yours and mine, I am keeping time on my progress.  This pictures is at 0:00 hours (not including 12-14 hours of design time. I have laid out some basic colors.

After  5 hours and 28 minutes this is what you get:

The white mesh is a waste canvas, which provides the structure of a cross stitch fabric, for even stitches. When I am done with the extremely challenging lettering, I will be able to remove the waste canvas.

One of these I hate, the other I love. One of them feels like it will never be finished.

I have been working on this piece since last spring, drawing, sampling and finally stitching. I estimate it took 203 hours of actual needle time. I think it might need a little bit more tweaking. This is based on an actual purchase I made in the Maldives in the Indian ocean

Ta Da!!!!

It is 14 inches wide by 8.5 inches high, white dupioni silk with cotton floss, kantha style.

My beautiful neighbor Libby went to visit her people in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula [of Michigan]) for the holidays. She found this box of fun at her local goodwill and shelled out $5 so that she might give all of this bliss to me.

$5 for this historical greatness

(The materials that don’t need I will send to Loop It Up, a great program exposing Savannah’s inner-city kids to the joy of creative play fiber styley.)

The older woman in line behind Libby was so pleased to see the younger generations embarking upon needlework, she grabbed and held Libby’s hand.

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A few important items of note:

• The pink tag that says “Embroidery Supplies” is the reverse side of a time card from L.D. Schreiber Cheese Co.
• The floss ranges in price from 5 cents for 9 yards to 27 cents for 8 yards.
• Two of the crochet hooks are carved from bone.
• The pack of Boye crewel needles is 15cents (for 18 needles), the singer crewel needles in a 16 pack are originally 85 cents, marked down to 69 cents.
• metal embroidery hoops! Yay!

I have no idea where I am going with this…

If you find yourself in the Savannah, Atlanta or Providence airports today, look for me, I will be offering free embroidery lessons (no strings attached) to anyone wishing to learn.

I drew up this pattern tonight and created a few basic “kits.”

I have absolutely no idea what will happen, I will be sure to let you know…

This is the document I am handing out with my packets of fun.  how to stitch Click on turkey for larger image, trace on your fabric and stitch away.