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? It was so lovely to have the two Zoom meetings on Saturday - thank you Julia for arranging it all - and to put faces and voices to so many of you! In the past I've never been able to attend the meetings in person and this…
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…
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? 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? I am continuing to work on the tiny carpets. The second tiny carpet, for the back of the first needle book, is now completed. Here are the two, side by side. All that remains now is to outline them and fill the gap between them (the spine…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? More on tiny carpets This week I have been working on the second tiny carpet. Here is the design I made, adapted from an image I found on Pinterest. Beginning the design. This time, I didn't attempt to start in the middle. I knew the finished dimensions…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? You haven't seen my workdesk recently. This is the reason. Chaos with a capital C. The main problem is the banana boxes on the right. They contain my knitting yarns and they live on a high shelf (out of shot) and I don't want the huge effort…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Again, no desk - it's just a dumping ground and I haven't been in the studio except to dump more stuff, or to fetch things I need. I am continuing to work on the purple circles jumper and have nearly completed sleeve #1. With the decreases, the…
