3 posts tagged “embroidery”

Does a rotary cutter get dull rather quickly? I think I got about 15 cuts out of mine before it got absolutely dull and won't cut a thing anymore? Is there a tutorial on these things? I really love it and it's great for cutting felt, I even made a little case for it with a nifty pocket on the back for spare blades, but can't seem to get the hang of it. What did I do wrong? Can someone help a girl out? I'd probably use it all the time, but the blades are a bit pricey to have to change constantly.

Our handy craftster-about-town Quornflower has posted the April craft challenge. I'm gonna try like heck to be better about updating, but let's be frank here...I do have a life, too!

So here's the 411 for the month of April:

·         find a craft that inspires you or others or is somehow new to you

·         try something new: technique, a craft you keep meaning to try

·         Spend a minimum of 3 hours per week of crafting, be it all in one day or spread over the week

·         turn your television off and spend time crafting that would otherwise be spent watching it

·         eat some chocolate

Well, let's see, I'm going to keep on sewing, that's relatively new to me. And I keep blathering on and on about embroidery, I haven't done much and quornflower posted a site with cool crewel/embroidery samplers. I especially like this one. Sounds like my mantra.

I also like the monsterbubbles collection and her cute little "read" between the lines sampler.

I've mentioned Jenny Hart and Sublime Stitching before and she now has featured artists contributing, like Kurt Halsey. His "forever and ever, hopelessly so" is just so damn cute!

But let us not forget Subversive Cross Stitch. Say what's really on your mind, in thread! I particularly like this sampler.

I definitely craft more than three hours a week. More like 1-2 hours a day, if I can. And I don't really watch TV except for late-nite and the occasional DVD and most of the time, I'm crafting while watching anyway. As for chocolate, well, that's a given! Tis the season! For Cadbury Mini-eggs, that is! I've been known to scarf an entire bag down myself without sharing.

So on the cusp of this holiday/holy-day weekend, I'm going on a road trip which usually allows me to craft in the car. If I get my butt in gear, I will actually be able to accomplish some embroidery over the weekend. Either that, or finish my chanson en crochet capelet that I've been working on the past couple of days. Here's a taste! Doesn't this blue look yummy? I can't help that I've been cheap and going with acrylic lately, but I figure these are like mock-ups or trial runs. When I go to do a good one, I'll splurge for the expensive stuff. Until then, I'm happy with the cheapies. This is TLC Baby yarn.

So have a terrific bunny day guys! I'm outtie to pack!

I know, I've been gone. It's been a wacky week, trying to get adjusted having my MIL back to living with us. But a good one. It just feels right, having her here, even though it is sometimes tough to deal with the Alzheimer's. But I don't mind...only sometimes I just get tired out. Me, hyper Lynda, tired. Yes! Pigs do fly!

Anyway, here's a pic of some of the loot that was passed around by DH and I. The girls got really cute Hello Kitty! pencil boxes and a little grab bag of Sanrio candy from Daddy. I called him earlier in the day and asked him to bring home two Hershey's bars as A had informed me that that was her favorite chocolate. But no, once again, he had to go all ridiculous and brought home two Vosges bars for them. Crazy! Those things cost 7x as much as a Hershey's bar! But dang, they're good. Too good. Despite their highly exotic taste in cheese (link to their favorite cheese shop!) their chocolate taste buds are not as highly developed. And that is lucky for me. Because guess who's been eating away steadily at their chocolate bars while they've been tapping into the left-over Dum-Dums from A's classroom valentine's giveaways? Moi! I've been enjoying A's Goji bar (Tibetan goji berries + pink Himalayan salt + deep milk chocolate) and S' Naga bar. (sweet Indian curry powder + coconut flakes + deep milk chocolate) Mmmmmm! So good!

So along with the chocolate bars, I gave them cute little felt hearts that I stuffed and embellished. The one shown is S', but A's is totally cute too, it was hot pink felt with a pale blue heart and a hot pink button in the middle, embroidered with pale blue thread. I'm new to embroidery, so it was a bit of a rig job, but I think they turned out cute. A's is not shown because when I told her that is was a hug from me, she quickly stuffed it into her new pencil box to take to school! They loved everything. I didn't put pics of the Sanrio candy because it was too quickly consumed and I plumb forgot to take a pic of the pencil boxes, not that you don't already know what a pencil box looks like, but it's really cute, with a ballerina Kitty and it locks and has a little tray with compartments that sits in the top.