C17: Days 219-221 – Sort of back on track

August 9, 2017

The crochetpocalypse is over, as last night was the Women in STEM Amigurumi workshop I’d agreed to do and had been working towards. In the end, we had a fun evening, although most of the attendees were beginners so I spent the time teaching the magic ring and double crochet (single in USian). Mead Library […]

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C17: Bonus bit of jammy creativity!

August 6, 2017

Last year, Kevin and I cleared a parasitic vine off our concord grape, and in August ended up with more grapes than we knew what to do with. So we froze them. Having pruned our vine, this year it’s looking like a bumper crop so I thought we had better take the 2.7kg of grapes […]

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C17: Days 211-218 – More emergency crochet, building computers, finally some embroidery

August 6, 2017

Welp, it’s been another one of those weeks. The emergency crochet continued until I had four reliable patterns ready for Tuesday’s workshop. The third figure is Dr Anandibai Joshi, who is also my favourite: The fourth will be published next month. Interrupting all that was the arrival of parts for my new Hackintosh, which has […]

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C17: Days 204-210 – Emergency crochet week

July 29, 2017

So, I haven’t blogged for nearly a week, primarily because I haven’t embroidered since Sunday last, and then I didn’t finish the particular test I wanted to do, so there was nothing to blog about. I have, however, been creative. Very creative. I’m running a workshop at Mead Public Library here in Sheboygan on 8 […]

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C17: Day 203 – The sword

July 22, 2017

I had three goals for today’s work: Find out of a single strand stem stitch for the edge of the sword works as well as the double strand, and I have to say that I don’t think it does. It just doesn’t really stand out. Find out if I should fill the whole sword. I […]

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C17: Days 201 & 202: The back of the shield

July 21, 2017

Green and Bayeux stitch or green and satin stitch? With stem stitch edge or not?

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C17: Day 200 – Shield front

July 19, 2017

I really changed my mind about front of the shield. I thought about doing a vertical long and short stitch, but it just didn’t feel right, so instead I went for a satin stitch in a radial pattern. I didn’t mark out the directions, which I will do when I do it for real so […]

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C17: Day 199 – More snail

July 18, 2017

Not going to complete that area because this isn’t a colour choice issue, it’s a stitch issue and I’m happy with the split stitch to give it a bit of texture.

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C17: Day 198 – More snail

July 17, 2017

Short entry today: I worked on the snail again, but haven’t finished it, so photos tomorrow!

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C17: Day 197 – Another leaf

July 16, 2017

Colour testing two reds, one more of a plum. And practicing fishbone stitch.

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C17: Days 195 & 196 – Snail test

July 15, 2017

I was feeling a bit ropey yesterday, so saved up that time for the snail test today. Although, to be honest, I probably spent a couple of hours on it whilst I was watching Wimbledon, which is slightly more than the 10-15 mins per day I had originally imagined spending! Anyway, this test is slightly […]

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C17: Day 194 – Leaves

July 13, 2017

I thought that it might be a good idea to do a small leaf in each of the greens, not just to help with identifying which colour might work best, but also to help me decide how to do the embroidery of the leaves themselves. I have decided on a fishbone stitch, which is probably […]

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C17: Day 193 – The vine

July 12, 2017

This is going to be a hard one, because the test today is about colours, and it’s hard to photograph colours well, especially with an ipad and especially at this time of night under mixed artificial light. I have one pale green (first top curl), and then a choice of a dark green that’s quite […]

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C17: Day 192 – Armour

July 11, 2017

Tonight, I had a bit of a practice of my stem stitch as I realised after my post last night that I had done it a bit wrong earlier, with some of my stem stitches basically being outline stitch instead. So that’s the new outline around the head. I also wanted to have a go […]

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C17: Day 191 – Outlines

July 10, 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve done any embroidery, so it’s good to practice. Today, I had a go at outlines. From the right-most foot clockwise, that’s single strand stem stitch and whipped back stitch in DMC; two strand stem stitch in DMC; and the arm is two strand stem stitch in silk. I think […]

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