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UPDATING THE PENNY METHOD
A while back I posted about using a penny, a cell phone, and a bit of math to determine the thread count of linens, both evenweave and skew. And now the US penny is quickly charging to extinction,...
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PROGRESS ON A WEALTH OF FRONTS
It’s been half a month since the last post, and all sorts of things have happened. First, I’ve finished the wildly intricate interlace panel on my current sampler. Second, as I was doing so I found an...
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OFF AND RUNNING!
On the ground, it’s more like walking slowly getting used to the transition from walker to cane, but in stitching, we’re galloping. Here is progress since the last post. Several strips so far, a combo...
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GALLERY OF APPRECIATION
UPDATE: 6 FEBRUARY 2024 – I’ve added a permanent page for the Gallery of Appreciation. Click here, or find it in the tabs listing, above. ——- I adore it when I see projects folk have worked up from my...
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EARLY MARKETING? OR NOT….
Another in my occasional series of posts only a stitching nerd will love. This base design I present here is among the patterns that have long fascinated me. It comes from a time of political and...
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ONE DESIGN’S MIGRATION
Early stitching modelbooks. They so often look the same, page after page. Where did I see that design before? Why is it oh, so familiar? And so we launch again into a post that only a stitching geek...
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THOSE SNAILS
Another question from the inbox: “So, what’s up with those snails?” No mystery – just a bit of silly that’s been codified into semi-tradition. The original strip of snails was one of the first...
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THOSE SNAILS
Another question from the inbox: “So, what’s up with those snails?” No mystery – just a bit of silly that’s been codified into semi-tradition. The original strip of snails was one of the first...
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BLACKWORK SAMPLER – YEAR 2
This is new for me. I’ve had projects that spanned years (decades, even), but never before have I had one embroidery project that I worked on without stopping, that has taken more than a year. Even my...
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GRAPHING CHALLENGE
I’m still trying to work up my favorite mode of double running graphing. I’ve pretty much dismissed all of the dedicated charting programs. They don’t allow the dot/stitch metaphor that I find far...
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CLARKE’S LAW SAMPLER – FINAL SOURCES ROUND-UP (LONG)
16. Black strip pattern. From page 57 of Louisa Pesel’s Historical Designs for Embroidery, but I worked it outlined and voided instead of foreground stitched. The patterns I tested on this piece will...
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PENULTIMATE BAND – ALMOST HALFWAY DONE
A look at how far I’ve gotten on this last strip, sans frame: I still think a narrow dark black strip is needed below this panel to establish a visual border along the bottom edge. After that the only...
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BACK TO THE STRAWBERRIES
Evidence of progress on my penultimate (possibly ultimate) strawberry panel, way down at the bottom of my Clarke’s Law sampler: A strip this wide with a voided filling does take a bit of time to...
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ANSWERING MY OWN QUESTIONS
I’m still working on the accreted section post, but I’ll hop in to answer my own questions from my last note. First, here’s progress to date on the current strip. The baseline anomaly in this one may...
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THE PROMISED STRAWBERRIES
Another quickie. First apologies to the mathematicians and topologists among us. I should have more correctly stated “any continuous wall maze can be solved by following a right hand (or left hand)...
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BALANCE IN ALL THINGS
While writing and graphing the last post took up the better part of a week’s discretionary time, I did make progress on my Clarke’s Law sampler. Here’s the area to the left of the center motif – the...
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NARROW BANDS
Amazingly, in the middle of the constant stream of work-related chaos, I did manage a half day over the weekend to unwind. Here’s the result: I’ve finished the panel of narrower bands to the right of...
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YES THERE IS PROGRESS
Where have I been? First swamped with work, then on my annual week at Cape Cod, then swamped with work again. Through it all I’ve kept stitching, although admittedly the vast majority of new stuff...
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