Before I work on that list, there is something that has made me excited about early Tudor stuff, well, besides the latest new bookI went and ILL'd the French book "la tenture de David & Bethsabée" by Guy Delmarcel which I picked up this afternoon. It is a book on the recently restored tapestry series David & Bathsheba done in one of the museums in ( Read more... )

I'm taking the evening off from housework, and decided to do a little thinking about what I want to possibly work creatively on for 2012.

I've a rather long list of items I've had on my want-to-do plate for awhile, from curtains to regular clothes. I just don't make the time to actually make them, leaving them to blow in the winds of ideas, so to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the library and picked up a book that Elmsley Rose (elmsley-rose) suggested on FB, Embroidery Masterworks by Virginia Bath. It's an older book of embroidery (1972), but in it, she's gone to the Art Institute of Chicago, and shares the info on various embroidered items within the book from a variety of time frames, including those within the ( Read more... )

Last night was our monthly baronial meeting. It was a good meeting, as most are. Quick, efficient, and had lots of folks including a few that are new or rarely attend these meetings ( Read more... )

We gamed last night, but not feeling well I went to bed near midnight, while the game was still going.

But I couldn't sleep. This time the thoughts rumbling through my head was on shibori dyeing. Shibori is a Japanese dyeing set of techniques that uses threads, clamps and various things to make a resisted area while the rest of the fabric is dyed ( Read more... )

Not much going on with the first two days of ArtEvDaMo 2011 ( Read more... )

One night at the beginning of the month, I couldn't sleep, so I wrote down all the items I had wanted to make, well, that I could think of at the time. I wrote them down so I could come back to it later, and so my mind would shut up and let me sleep. I put them under a private lock to my eyes only.

I think with ArtEvDaMo2011 starting tomorrow, I ( Read more... )

No, not that kind of stash. Fabric, trim, pattern, etc. stash is what I mean.

Coming in from the post I made in my personal blog, at sstormwatch. The other thing I am pondering is not related to anything renaissance, faire, SCA or anything like that. My MAAS Embroideress project was almost, about 97% from my stash of fabrics. The only thing I bought was the ( Read more... )

Well, been home from CoCo a few days (posted in my regular blog here), and finally getting back into the swing of real life, which for me means a lot of house cleaning work. So I got my embroidery back into its holder, and did a couple of threads worth of work. Not much, but it finished off the pomegranate, and outlined a new leaf. I'll post an ( Read more... )

I think there is no such thing as a coincidence, although I will admit I also don't always follow coincidences which come my way. But this time, I think it is synchronicity ( Read more... )