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? 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…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? As usual, my desk has been the recliner and the kitchen this week! I am continuing to make good progress on the Tiny Carpets project and have finished the red stitching for the border of Carpet #4. There's a lot of red on this one. At this…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I'm happy to say I've completed tiny carpet #3. A close-up, showing the variegated background. I'm really glad I did this. If I hadn't seen a TV programme with an oriental rug on it which had this, I would have gone ahead and just done the plain…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I've been making good progress on tiny carpet #3. The border is now complete. I was about to embark on filling in the background with the dark blue thread, when I happened to be watching something on TV that featured oriental carpets. I noticed that the plain…
