Halloween is getting closer and we all want to look totally tubular on the big day. I am posting a great CRAFT video for you on Friday, but until then, here is my DIY 80's Halloween Costumes for those of you who want to go back in time. Teen Wolf, The Goonies, Lloyd Dobbler, Marty McFly and Maverick are all yours for the taking!
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Halloween is just around the corner and we want to look amazing without breaking the bank, so I teamed up with Savers to bring you 3 different looks with one trip to the store. Here is my spin on the movie Bridemaids, Zombie Bride with a full make-up tutorial, and the classic horror film Carrie.
Halloween is just around the corner and we want to look amazing without breaking the bank, so I teamed up with Savers to bring you 3 different looks with one trip to the store. Here is my spin on the movie Bridemaids, Zombie Bride with a full make-up tutorial, and the classic horror film Carrie.
Halloween is just around the corner and we want to look amazing without breaking the bank, so I teamed up with Savers to bring you 3 different looks with one trip to the store. Here is my spin on the movie Bridemaids, Zombie Bride with a full make-up tutorial, and the classic horror film Carrie.
A couple of things that are just too good to pass up in the post today.
Remember my post about “Destination Needlepoint?” Well needlepoint.com is having a virtual trunk show of some of the company’s travel ornaments on their site. There you will find pieces from In Good Company and Silver Needle, all at 20% off.
Looking at them I keep wondering why I want to buy ornaments for places I’ve never been and probably wouldn’t enjoy if I went there.
If you are a gardener the name Gertrude Jekyll is a legend. This Englishwoman is the person who pioneered those lovely wide borders of flowing pernenials we think of as typical of English gardens. She wrote many gardening books, but did you know she also was an accomplished embroiderer. The picture for this post is an iris design she did for a compilation called Handbook of Embroidery.
There is a wonderful post about her and her two designs for the book in one of my favorite blogs, The Textile Blog. At the end of the post, you will find an extensive list of links to information about her gardening work.
If you want to see the Handbook of Embroidery, it is available on Project Gutenberg (the link is to the HTML version of the book).
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A Short Miscellany
You know the feeling, you are going to run out of thread before the project is finished.
You’ve already starting stitching, so you can’t use my stripes method (explained in the link).
What do you do when you’re using a stranded thread?
First off stop stitching this color immediately. You want to save as much of the thread of your first dyelot as you can.
Second, buy the thread you need and I skein more than you think you need. Get the same dyelot if possible.
If the dyelots are not the same, then you will use needleblending to move from one dyelot to the other. The process is the same as shading: you will replace one strand at a time until you are only using the new dyelot.
But how do you decide how many rows to do for each blend? Assume that, at most, one half of the remaining area should be used for the transition, although it can be much less. But remember, the wider the transition are is, the more seamless it will be.
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Blending Old & New Dyelots Seamlessly
Last week my left leg got messed up. It’s nothing serious, lymphedema, but about the best way for my leg to be is horizontal.
This seriously has cut in to my ability to do just about anything since I have to keep my leg up.
So most of the time I sit/lay on the couch, sometimes with a cat “helper” and stitch.
This is not entirely getting me caught up on all the stitching, but it’s helping.
Upcoming this week you’ll find some good things. Tomorrow will be the LAS mini-sock for August, there will be a short weekly series abut converting Japanese patterns to needlework and on Wednesday I’ll be a guest on FaveCrafts web radio show.
In the meantime, I’m resting my leg and stitching.
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When You Can’t Do Anything but Stitch
It’s really a good idea to keep your eReader in some kind of protective cover or sleeve (the screens on unprotected ones can crack). You can buy all kinds of covers or you can show your creativity and love of needlepoint by making one.
If, like me, you are sewing-challenged and without a sewing machine, you can add needlepoint to an insert, above, or you can buy a Stitch & Zip cover.
But if you are at all handy, why not use this delightful tutorial to make an eReader cover from a piece of finished needlepoint. The needlepoint needs to be about twice the length of your Reader and 1 inch wider (so you can get it out. Line it with something soft and turn it into a pocket.
You can get the steps and illustrations from the tutorial. Thanks to Jane from Chilly Hollow for pointing this out.
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Using Needlepoint to Make a eBook Cover
I am so excited about the classes I’ll be teaching for Art Needlepoint over the summer. Each class will focus on a specific technique. They are offered exclusively through Art Needlepoint.
Best of all, the class is free with the purchase of the canvas and kit.
The first class, pictured here, is a basic shading class. It uses this charming Art Nouveau Iris and Needlepoint, Inc silks to teach needleblending, a technique for shading using stranded threads. It begins June 11.
Starting June 15 is Stitching the Impressionists with Shadow Stitching using a lovely watercolor of waterlilies by John LaFarge. The combination of this technique with the changing colors and textures of Impressionism will make for dynamic needlepoint.
Learning how to do effective shading with single strand threads is the topic of the class beginning July 1. It uses a contemporary shaded circle design and wool threads. This technique will free you to do shading on any canvas with any thread.
The lovely Flowers by contemporary artist Virginia Kelly will be combined with textured stitches and special effects in a class beginning July 15. In this class you’ll learn lots that you’ll be able to use on other projects while creating a lovely project that will make a great pillow or picture.
You sign up for any of these classes by clicking on the link and purchasing the kit.
The last class, Shading the Face, will begin August 1 and will use a lovely portrait of a girl by a Brazilian artist. You can read about the painting and the class in a blog post from Art Needlepoint. Please let them know if you are interested in this class.
All the classes are conducted over the Internet with lessons emailed to you, private discussion groups, and scheduled chats.
Hope you’ll join me!
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If you are like me, stitching Turkeywork is always confusing. I don’t do it often enough to know how to stitch it by heart, so I always need reminding.
But most books aren’t helpful in showing you how to do this stitch.
Thankfully Mary Corbet has done a great illustrated tutorial on Turkeywork (there’s a video too). She shows it on cloth, but the process (and results) are exactly the same on canvas.
Thanks to Denise from Craft Gossip or pointing this out.
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Learn to Stitch Turkeywork
