I have finally learnt how to do French Knots!

I bought some embroidery thread on holiday (now, that is a massive surprise) and I've just got google to translate the label "akça ipek | brezilya nakiș ipligi" which comes out as "Silk Maple | Brazilian embroidery thread" so I had to google that to work out what the hell it actually is. It seems to be some kind of rayon perlé used for a sort-of- ( Read more... )

How the hell do you do this?

I don't think there are even short words short enough for me to understand.

... to get "hot and bothered" by a how-to video?

I'm doing some deep measured breathing here

the colonial knotMy future happiness might depend on this ( Read more... )

I'm not sure where all that bad karma came from, but I woke up on Tuesday and then the arm on my glasses sheered off and then my porridge exploded. So, I am waiting on a second arm and wearing my spare glasses with the chips to the lenses and an aged perscription. Seesh, has that really been four years? Suffice to say, no squinting at cross- ( Read more... )