Tag: embroidery

  • Eighteen years ago, Mr. Snook’s grandmother (“Kathy-Nanny”) moved into a retirement village, and I was gifted one of her many needlepoint tapestries: a tasteful nude reclining with a whippet. If you don’t know much about needlepoint, it generally involves a heavy canvas with a picture printed on it that you then embroider over with slanted…

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  • Shared today on Instagram

    Shared today on Instagram: Another embroidery finished. This quilt is gonna be awesome.

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  • Shared today on Instagram: I finished my embroidery for this month’s MetaQuilter square! #redwork

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  • Shared today on Instagram: Yeah. So I spent the whole day doing embroidery…

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  • F*** Cancer

    F*** CancerHooray! Brigita got her care package from me. It takes a lot to get me to cross stitch, you know. (I’ve posted some more pictures after the jump.) The design comes from Subversive Cross Stitch. And how adorable does Miss Violet look? What a cutie!

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  • Babies Suck

    Babies SuckI made my sister another present for Penn. It’s a baby bib! The design came from subversive cross stitch, and the bib itself is from DMC. I managed to finish it in just one day, despite not being the world’s greatest cross stitcher. (Yeah, I know it’s not quite centered properly.) And don’t worry;…

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  • Chicken Bib

    More craftiness… I just shipped a package of homemade Christmas presents off to Mom today, including this bib I knitted for my baby brother. Yes, those are chickens embroidered on the front. (Apparently Mom collects them now, so I’m trying to indulge her.) It turned out a bit… longer than I envisioned, but the basic…

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