'Funk & Weber Designs' Category
She’s Back! (Catching Up)
Apologies and Excuses I know, I know. I’ve been MIA for more than a month with no warning or explanation. Again. I’m sorry. I’ve been away, and though I continued to work, I never made it down the To Do list to this blog. Too many tasks above it. I did, however, organize and participate [...]
Free Cross Stitch Pattern: American Flag Illusion
Did you see this free cross stitch pattern on the Funk & Weber Designs site? That is an afterimage illusion of the American flag. If you stare at this image long enough then look at a plain white surface, you’ll “see” a red, white, and blue flag. It works–ask Bev. It’s small and easily transportable [...]
Funk & Weber Bookmarks 101 class . . .
. . . is About So Much More Than Bookmarks! We, Funk & Weber Designs, are offering our Bookmarks 101: Simple, Smart, and Swanky Finishes class May 9 – June 5. I developed this class to teach stitchers to make bookmarks from scratch so we can use all kinds of materials, fabric scraps, UFOs . [...]
DNA Bookmarks
Reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks inspired me to dig out the DNA bookmark I created some time ago. I love this design. Two-dimensional photos don’t do it justice, if you ask me. I experimented with some different techniques, lengths, and products, thinking I would publish this pattern. Then it dawned on me that [...]
Moving Day
This is no croc. It’s here. It’s really here. What’s here? Go there and find out. Really. Go now.
Ch-ch-changes
Yeah, I know. I’m the girl who cried wolf. I’ve been talking about changes and new websites for who-knows-how-long now. But for the record, every now and then, once in a while, here and there I’ve done more than talk: I’ve actually worked on those changes. For instance, we have a new Funk & Weber [...]
2011 Goals and Teasers
Have any of you started Creative Gifts for 2011 yet? Harriet has come up with a brilliant idea that the rest of us may want to adopt. Based on the 24 Creative Gift Ideas–with freedom to substitute, alter, etc.–she aims to tackle two a month in 2011. Can you imagine ending up with 24 handmade [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #22
This is a necklace pendant blank. Several years ago I couldn’t find these anywhere, but now I’m seeing them everywhere. Of course, now I don’t want to buy them; I want to make them myself, but that’s another matter. It’s a perfect little holder for some embroidery, no? So idea #22 is an embroidered necklace [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #12
Today, on the Twelfth Day of Creative Gifts ideas, we’re going to combine the idea of a re-usable holiday ribbon or decorative tag with the strap idea from Day #10′s ornament. We wave our magic needle over it, and, voila!, we have a re-usable, customizable holiday gift tag. Once again, while I plan to write [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #10
Are you sick of stitch band ideas? I’ve got at least two more on my list, but I’ll switch to something else for today. We can come back to the stitch bands. Maybe. We’ll see. This is one of my personal favorites. I introduced the idea last year in The Needlework Nutshell (subscription box in [...]
