Archive for November, 2008

20 Nov

Sometimes

…an image is just way too cool to be ignored, and sometimes I get tired of staring at my own designs. What I’m getting around to saying is that I’ve stolen (cough cough) borrowed a celtic dragon design I found online for inspiration. The original is a lovely tile, my copy is punchneedle embroidery.
I’m using [...]

12 Nov

Simple again

Since August every second of my spare time has revolved mainly around my new dogs and making sure my children didn’t feel neglected due to my spending so much time with the dogs. The spindles and wheels went into the closet along with my yarn, fibers, needles, guitar, nice trousers, and paint supplies. In part, [...]

12 Nov

Igolochkoy

I don’t know how or if I can actually justify my fascination with punch-needle work. Like everything sincerely fun and cool igolochkoy was horribly abused by those people who do rustic and primitive craft thingies straight from kits purchased “as seen on TV.”
Inevitably there’s a rule of craft tools. When one, such as myself, decides [...]