What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Wow, this is the 600th desk sharing session! I haven't been involved in this longest blog hop on the web from the start, but I've been around for a good number of years now, and have made friends, gained inspiration, had great encouragement and comfort in difficult…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Give-away reminder Just to remind you all that I am offering the final needle book as a giveaway to a WOYWW member, to celebrate WOYWW's 600th week, and I shall be announcing the winner at our Zoom session on 5th December. If anyone isn't already aware of…
First of all, I have discovered that quite a few of you have been unable to leave comments because you've been blocked. I seem to have a very over-zealous spam checker on my Wordpress blog. I have discovered how to deal with this and it's just a question of remembering to keep checking,…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpet #6 Good progress has been made this week, despite having to unpick a few errors. Mapping out the design with the dark red thread. I had to unpick and redo a bit at the top because I mis-counted. When I added the top diamond, the…
I'm sorry I didn't manage to get round all the desks last week - it's been a busy week. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny carpet #6! The final one. I have done the design and made a start. This is the inspiration for it: In order to co-ordinate it better with…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpet #5 complete The work on this one has progressed really well this week. Last week I left you with the green partially done. Here is the green, completed (apart from the background). To begin the backgrounds for the top and bottom sections, I have chosen…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Needle Book #3, Tiny Carpet #5 Working on the front cover of the third and final needle book. Last time I showed the chart for this design: based on this Islamic prayer mat: I am steaming ahead with the embroidery. Here is the first stage completed -…
What's On Your Workdesk This Wednesday? Great news - I've finished the first two needle books! This marks the completion of the first four tiny carpets. On Monday the recipient of one of the needle books came for lunch and I was able to give it to her. She was absolutely delighted with…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Tiny Carpets I have now completed Tiny Carpet #4, which completes the cover for the second needle book. When I left you last week, I was working on the cream thread. It didn't take me long to complete this stage. The border was now complete, and I'd…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Continuing to work on my Tiny Carpets project for making needle books. I have made very good progress on Tiny Carpet #4 this week, and began by mapping out the central motifs. This process involves quite a lot of counting, and stranding the thread across some bare…
