'Funk & Weber Designs' Category
The Needlework Nutshell
The Needlework Nutshell is going to be late this month. All is well; it’s just late.
One of the Microtus voles (as opposed to the red-backed voles); I would guess a meadow vole. Voles are mice with short tails. The grassland around the lagoon bustles with these.Funk & Weber Winner
I’m still waiting to get bookmark counts from participating shop owners, so I have no total to offer yet, but I do have the winner of the Funk & Weber Designs Bookmark Design Contest. Stitchers were invited to design an original bookmark using elements from any Funk & Weber pattern.
The winner is…
stitched by someone we […]The Ducharme Challenge
I showed you this picture a few days ago; it’s a noodle I found while searching through my stash. When I discovered it this time, I envisioned it as a bookmark, and pulled it out to work on it.
Here it is now. I combined it with the earlier Needlework DNA bookmark idea, and here is […]Anchorage Outreach
Funk & Weber Designs, Arctic Needle, and the Arctic Needleworkers embroidery guild hosted the third annual Bookmark Make-it-Take-it at the Loussac Library on Sunday in conjunction with the 2009 Bookmark Challenge.
Attendees included several mother/daughter pairs, like Shawna and Rebecca.
Jean (right), already a stitcher, used the opportunity to introduce her friend, Julie, to the craft.
Guild members, […]Tough Choice
I got these in the mail today from Kreinik:
I’ll let you guess what they’re for.
Are you familiar with Tokens and Trifles sewing cards? Have you ever stitched on paper?
I’ve stitched on paper, but I’ve never used perforated paper. I’ve always made my own holes.
These sewing cards have a delicate or elegant look […]Weekend Site-Seeing
Have you been to The Stitchers’ Village yet? I look forward to hanging out there.
Our next bracelet class will be held in the Village, as well as others. There is a theater where video classes and tutorials will be available. What do you know…we just learned how to make videos!The Stitchers’ Village
This was going to be my January 1 post, but we dashed off for a fun-filled weekend with friends, and here we are two weeks later. Does that happen to anyone else?
I’ve been itching to spill this gem of a secret since I learned details in September. In one month, that is, on Feb. 15, […]Aida vs. Black vs. Pale
I’m working on a new online class, trying to meet a very tight deadline, and am in a bit of a quandary choosing fabric. If I’m going to meet this deadline–and nothing says I have to, though it would be nice if I could–I am limited to fabrics I have on hand. I have three […]
Weekend Site-Seeing
Years ago, Mike and I bought fractal software thinking we might make needlework patterns from the designs. We learned about fractals through my math-teacher father.
Of course, since fractals are computer-generated, anyone can make the designs (much faster than I can brush my teeth), and before we could say “Mandelbrot Set,” many iterations of cross stitch […]Fall, NOT in Pieces
Back in August, we had the New Puzzle Pattern Contest here on the blog. Faithful reader, Bev, was bummed because she was going to miss half of it because her husband was taking her on vacation, dag-nabbit. Husbands! (eye-roll) She hoped rain would delay their trip–they were riding motorcycles–and I believe she got an extra […]
