scans

HEY. remember like, two weeks ago, when i posted those pictures of my stitching directory? between now and then i have started reading three books, no four actually. i haven't got passed the first twenty pages in three (Catch 22, Perfume and Gil Scott Heron's memoir) that is no reflection of the books. I just can't get passed the beginnings. Although I only started Gil's last night and i know it's going to be amazing. I can't concentrate much, so I am probably going to read it again in a couple of months when my head's a bit more straight. I have read most of The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. A darling friend recommended it. It's good, I like most of it. But I wish it would just fix my life. It's all when and good, knowing how to meditate, but how do I overcome my fears??

Anyway, so I have also gone and bloody scanned those stitching bits. My scanner is so close to being dead it's almost funny. It's almost screaming everytime I try to scan something. My cat used to spend a lot of time sleeping on it and I think at some point they had a fight and the scanner lost, it's now dealing with the injuries. You'll see those in a sec.

So my stitches.

Here we go (again):

The chain stitch had it's own post, like two posts ago, for your reference. I went to scan it and put it on the wrong way round. aha, i found this amusing. 

and there you can see my scanner working in it's full glory. check out how it's bringing new dimensions to scanning. you don't really want to see what you're scanning, do ya? you wanna see purple lines. yes i do. thank you kind sir.

i'm going to try and overcome my fears now. thanks, bye.

i just realised it was more like five weeks ago, damn, my concept of time is bad

some stitching directoring and cheese.

uhhhhh, I HAVE A NEW JOB AND IT'S THE WORST.

but i'm moving on with my stitching directory. pretty sloppily.

I'm looking forward to the point where i get to put it together as a book. 

And some cheese. Based on the 30 rock scene in which the retort "that's not that much cheese" is said.

I'm gonna turn in to a cheesey badge. and a chair made of cheese. and a table made of cheese. damn, i miss zim. BYE

chain stitch

phone case, oh and a stitching directory i've been planning

Hullo. I made a phone case, because my old phone was such a wreck. poor sod. I've only had this one a week or so. and i've only dropped it once, i think. so that's pretty impressive for me. and now it has a home. 

I'm trying to get better at stitching and stitching techniques, so i've been making pieces with only one type of stitch, if i can help it. this is the stem stitch piece. i've got a couple more but i'll show the world them when they're in my stitching directory. it'll be like the yellow pages. for stitching. one for every house. not really. that would be impractical. 

stem stitches

Sunday stem stitch

owl. owly owl.

current project: an owl... IN PROGRESS. PROGRESS. progression.obsession. 

a few pieces of embroidery and a cake.

I started this sentence without knowing where it was going to finish.

  

A cake for a special birthday friend.

This is the piece I made for the Craftivist Collectives #imapiece project, with Save The Children. I couldn't make it to Manchester for the installation, but it looks like Sarah and her pals did a really good job (see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/craftivist-collective/)

Standard shopping list.

bicycle embroidery

hello, 

this is my most recent stitching adventure. god, it's about as close to exercise as I get. except for when it's snowing, when apparently i run around like a mad lout.

anyway, so i made this bicycle. feels like i should probably do a little more with it, but i'm not sure what. any ideas?

something to honor 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy

hey, check out this unpredictable writing. who likes letters to be the same size anyway? not this cat.

gifts

Hello internet folk.

Welcome to 2013. I hope yours has been better than mine. Unforunately several of my friends have each experienced a few tragedies since the year began. 

But before that, it was December and my lovely friend Sophie's birthday. She's such a bloomin' rock to me.

So i made her this:

The card had a cassette tape on it. man, i miss old school cassette tapes. although i've got to be honest and say that my cassette tapes mostly consisted of the songs recorded from the soundtrack to Sister Act 2 and Spice Girls songs I stole from the radio. I was of the mixed CD generation. Full disclosure. But i like the nostalgia. and the apple is a little brooch. Soph's going to be a kick ass teacher soon. She's going to totally rock it.

And I got my LOVELY MUM this for Christmas: 

There are so many things that my mum shared with me, mostly films, that I will appreciate until the end of my days. And the film 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills is one of them. 

Well if you've somehow found your way here, i belatedly wish you a very happy new year. Please be happy and take care of yourself. 

With love.