Showing posts with label needlearts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label needlearts. Show all posts
Friday, August 2, 2024

The Basic Dorset Button

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Day 294: I thought a revisit to Dorset buttons was in order for today so that I could show you a real one (as opposed to "needle-lace...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Patty's Potato Chip

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Day 296: Yesterday, the Potato Chip Quilt arrived at its final destination, taking my sister-of-the-heart Patty quite by surprise. Oh, I...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Tablet Weaving

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Day 70: I've been drawing on old skills to keep boredom at bay as I shelter in place during the pandemic, and in most cases, that just m...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Fiber Artist In Residence

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Day 57: Just so nobody thinks I'm slackin' off during the pandemic, I thought I'd pull a few of my current projects together for...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Old Dog, New Trick

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ö Day 53: This old dog has learned a new trick: nålbinding (or at least the Oslo stitch, so far). I happened across the word in reading abou...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Langer Spranger, Longer Spronger

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Day 47: In between bouts of working on the Hexagon Quilt, I've been playing with sprang...to be correct, "språng," and pronoun...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Crewel Embroidery

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Day 136: I was only four years old when my grandmother first started instructing me in needlearts and, oddly for a child who quickly bec...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Beadwork

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Day 133: Although what springs immediately to mind upon hearing the word "needlearts" (i.e., knitting, crocheting, tatting or o...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Pulled-Thread Sampler

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Day 127: Yesterday, we examined hardanger, in which the threads of the foundation cloth are removed to form holes in the finished work. P...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Tatting - The Transfer

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Day 102: If I had a dollar for every person who's said to me, "I tried to learn to tat, but I kept getting knots in the wrong pl...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Cat Hair And All

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Day 347: I picked up my Home Arts submissions from the Washington State Fair today and finally got to read the judging cards. The judging...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Results Are In

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Day 328: Today was my first day of duty at the Washington State Fair (Puyallup Fair) for 2018, and I was finally able to find out if I...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

Knitting In French

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Day 112: Knitting on a French loom is easy and fun, and is a quicker way to make "i-cords" than knitting with needles. For kni...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Temari

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Day 65: Mind your spelling, here! We're talking about Japanese thread balls (temari), not thicker soy sauce (tamari). This art was o...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Crows In The Corn

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Day 9: It looks like a pair of thieves have found the corn the farmer's wife was gathering for her harvest display! These tiny cobs ...