Artwork and garments made from or incorporating fibre and textile.
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? First of all, a beautiful card from Shaz (Silverwolf). Thank you, Shaz! It's shiny and glittery and quite 3-D, and I love the embossed background too. Brilliant! As for what I have been doing this week, I have been making slow but steady progress on my crochet…
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…
