Yeah, I missed a week or two in there, didn’t I? Nevermind: this week we have a cool book, Hip to Stitch. I ordered it and looked at it, and now I’m ready to pass it on. Go here to read more about it.
Post a comment here and tell me something about stitching. I’ll pick Friday.
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Thanks! I am a late bloomer to stitching of all kinds. I love to combine paper and fabric in most of my creations. I can use any and all the help I can get!
fondly, Nancy
Let me preface this by saying that I have written more letters to you in my head than ever make it to paper. In the third (that I may actually get around to sending!) I posed some stitching questions to you about embellishing a T-shirt and appliqueing the front with a design from some Frida Kahlo fabric. This book may just answer my questions, so please throw my name in the hat. Meanwhile, perhaps I should buy that color ink cartridge I've long needed, print out the letter and send it to you.
Stitching, huh?
Well, I like doing it but mostly on a machine!
I make lots of little quilted projects--bags, sketch book covers and more. Please include me in the draw. I could use some new ideas!
Thanks.
Sounds like a really interesting book. I like to sew and stitch, but I'm pretty much self-taught which means I actually know very little. So a book like that could be quite helpful.
I recently found a college picture of myself in an art class - what a hippie i was. I had lengthened my jeans and covered up the faded part with some fancy stitchin'. Also leather patches stitched on frayed pockets and zipper areas of BF's jeans.(he was always taking off his pants, heehee) Funny to think about stuff that long ago. Anyhow, I'm still stitching away and that book looks pretty interesting. Please add my name to the hat.
Hip to Stitch looks Marvelous. Neat gifts to give. Stitching to make ordinary things look great. thanks for throwing my name in the hat.
This looks like a cool book! I started doing cross-stitch when I was 10 and I think I've done a little bit of everything. I always love to see new ideas. Thanks!
Right now a skirt and a blouse are hanging on a door about a foot from my head forlornly waiting for me to be inspired with designs to embroider on them. The skirt had a tear in it I needed to disguise, and I started with flowers inspired by your orange tunic, but now I've kind of stalled. When I bought it a hundred years ago, the white shirt had cute, colorful stick figures stitched across the chest. I got tired of it and picked the stitching out. Unfortunately, you can still see where the figures were - faint blue in places where the design had been stamped and impressions/holes in the fabric from the stitching. I've tried everything I can think of to eliminate them, without success. So now I have to reembroider something over it. Ugh. More work than I wanted to do, but I love the old soft cotton fabric and fit of the blouse.
Nice to see a young graduate of C.S.U. my alma mater get published. I've been embroidering, sewing and crochet since childhood. I've been working on my first cloth wrapped wire doll, following Ray Slater's suggestions in her book.
ann, have you tried this: dampen the fabric and rub across the holes with a soft toothbrush and then steam press? it won't take off the blue lines, but it might get rid of the holes so you have more options for stitching. i do this with the tack holes from where i use stretcher bars--
Well, stitching can be a complete time sucker!!! I love stitching second only to reading,and I'll stitch anywhere! So here is my best stitching story!
Last year i hosted a family reunion for over a 100 family member from all over the globe. I took care of every detail, the catering, the centerpieces, the thousand little decor details and all the orchestrating! By the second day I was a wreck( I an VERY anal(G)) and making myself close to sick worrying, when I looked up, here comes my partner of 23 years with my stitching basket.I really sat down, right there,in the middle of all that chaos,cried a bit and stitched for hours and FINALLY visited with my family!
I used to cross-stitch way back but would never finish it because eventually I got bored by the lack of creativity.
Now I like freehand stitching/embroidery even more. I'm even teaching my 3yo to stitch. She loves it!
I put some muslin in a hoop for her. She picks out and cuts her thread. I thread the needle (a larger blunt end needle) and tie it off. She just stitches up and down. Loves it!
It's great to see how she creates, what color floss she decides to use, and when she decides her masterpiece is done.
What can I tell you about stitching? OMG! Every time I touch a needle and thread I am sure that my poor home ec teacher rolls in her grave thinking she did not teach me that way! I need all the help I can get!
Hmm, this comment is about an organization I love that's about stitching, does that count? It's the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society! It began in Oregon when I was 20 years old. There are members worldwide --- but I bet you know this.
What else? Well, my great great grandmother was a milliner who left her husband to move to Portland, Oregon. She designed and stitched some fabulous headgear...
What else? I have taken a needle and thread on every road trip I have ever been on, except for this last, when I packed so fast they were left behind...
PS
Though actually, what I would REALLY REALLY REALLY like to win is a RFZ book...
Please leave me out of the drawing; I just want to join in the conversation. Apparently I've joined the "slow fabric" movement, as I'm still working on an apron I started months ago. I used a couple of the stamps you sent me of a bird and a nest on some soft linen, then appliqued and embroidered the surface so much it looks like it's woven. When the apron is finally finished, it's going to another artist that I know will appreciate it. It's kind of a journal quilt to wear.
i actually HAVE a Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society t-shirt--i had no idea it was an actual group of actual people.
Here's one that may/may not keep you in stitches. For me, it was embarassing.
When I was in 7th grade Home Ec class, we were to make hand bound buttons holes.
As a youngster, (and even today,) when my hands don't do what I want them to do, my fingers and hands get hot and sweaty. The result? Buttonholes that were less than perfect. The teacher returned them to me with a mark, (0/5) and the comment:
"These are awful. Redo".
I cried when I got them back. Of course I knew they weren't good. When I went home, I asked my mom to do some for me. She really didn't want to, saying I had to learn for myself, but I was humiliated and I told her I wouldn't go back to that class.
I did do them over, and they were only slightly better.
Lesson to me? When I became a teacher, I learned to bite my tongue and write gentle comments if a child's work was "awful" or "ugly". Yes, I did make them redo some assignments. But first, I talked to the child privately and offered some suggetions to guide them through the process.
Stitching is my life; except for painting and making jewelry and fusing glass and other odd things that keep me safely out of the kitchen.
I learned to do stamped cross-stitch when I was in first grade. Grandma showed me how to make the stitches and gave me two dish towels to practice on. I still have them both. I think one is actually finished.
I've embroidered, done counted cross-stitch and needlepoint (even painted canvases for the local needlepoint shop for awhile) My dad taught me to knit and I taught myself to crochet. But stitching by hand is still my all time favorite. I love the colors of the floss or wool, the peaceful rhythm of the needle and watching the stitches totally transform the surface being stitched. Machine stitching is expedient, but it just doesn't have quite the same magical appeal; don't you agree?
Count me in for the draw. The book looks cool! I used to be into sewing big time when I was a teenager and into my 20's. I would love to incorporate more stitching into my artwork now. This would be a good push to make that happen. :)
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