a picture... at last!

Now on my listy- list I had included a note to put some pictures on this blog...

so here are a few of my embroidery, which has been under progress (with breaks) for the last few years.... Its for my niece (surprisingly enough!).

... notice the large gaping hole in the middle??? I will fill it up soon, but am currently growing a supposedly Clarice Cliff style tree, on the side( you can see the trunk under construction on the right), which I will show when it is finished.

I went a tad overboard with the clouds and the gold thread. I love clouds and they constantly appear in my word. Ditto for vertical lines!!!
....and I love old buttons!

pins and needles

Do you ever get pins and needles? I do. I have developed a what you would call a terrible habit, of sitting on my leg when I'm at the computer, and I occasionally wind up with pins and needles...

However I do like pins and needles of the sewing sort, but have never owned a pincushion. So as a result of my holiday craft lite kit I now own a pincushion. I'm going though a coral pink stage with my embroidery, I can't seem to stay away from it- there seems to be something very enticing about working with this thread. I did try to be good and nicely mark on the text, but in the end freehand embroidery won out, and the text is a bit haphazard.

I like the grey felt (thanks Japanese $2 shop!) it offsets the coral quite nicely. I think that it would be neat to use the circular shape for something else, like a cushion and link them together at the sides- I'm sure that I have seen something like this before, but can't quite get my head around how it would work just yet.

Continuing the pins and needle theme I spotted this print called You Are My Needles and Pins at Inside a Black Apple. Cute.




I also love this drawing of a needle that I did last year. I'm still trying to find a place for it. If I'm brave enough I might try and turn it into a print repeat - I know zilch about making print repeats. It will be a learning curve.

notes on my list

I have created a long-ish list of things that I want to create, or are in the business of creating. Most of them I suspect have had a good level of procrastination involved- so are probably carry-overs from lists of old.

Now that I think about it I have a neglected top that i was making this time last year to finish. I think I stopped it because I had to work on my portfolio in order to find a job... anyways this top would be great if I finished it. I took it from a fantastic 50's pattern (which I also made my 6th form ball/prom/formal dress from) I very much love the scalloped scooped neckline, prim cap sleeves and the curved hem I gave it.

That will be another item for my list- perhaps above the "sew myself a skirt" entry...

Thats it for me today- 2 posts in 1 working day is probably 2 posts too many!
Bye-bye

back to work kids!

Today is my first day back at work for 2007- not suprisingly I am somewhat lethargic and sloooooowwww. I seem to have forgotten how to use Modaris (patternmaking software) in the last couple of weeks. Its like that going back to school feeling, only there are no teachers.

Marching into 2007

Hello again. Happy New Year!

Its good to have that new start "lets put up a new calendar" feeling. I didn't go out or anything last night (spoilsport) because New Years Eve in Napier for me has always somehow ended up in some kind of disaster. I think the lack of taxis and my house's slightly awkward location (on a hilly hill) can be to blame... walking up it at 5 in the morning with friends who are much drunker than you is not very funny...

Anywho I went in to wake up my parents this morning only to find that my sister's band The Haints of Dean Hall were playing on the radio- not bad for a band thats about a year old. It included an interview. I still think that its kind of weird hearing your sibling singing- in some ways I still think of my family as being visual artists/ designer types, and I forget that there is a bit of a musical bent- my brother can play excellent classical guitar, one of my sisters is learning the piano, my two nephews are into the guitar, and not to mention that I used to play the drums when I was a teenager (this often surprises people- obviously I do not seem like the drum playing type!!)