These last few weeks I’ve been stitching quite small – this piece is only 2-1/2″ x 3″. But I’m really enjoying the process. When there isn’t much time at the end of a work day for creative activities, making small things can be a good choice. Small things can be completed quickly and the sense […]
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I’ve been thinking about the things that I love to do more than anything else. And hand stitching is one of them. When I was very young just learning to use a needle and thread, I stitched wild and free – and it was fun. I stitched with no goal in mind and sewing two
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There was no guesswork, or work of any kind really, in sewing these pieces together. This piece of embroidered fabric obviously was intended to be a pocket, so a pocket it became. Adorned and embellished, but still useful. In olden days pockets were made separately from garments. They were given as gifts or purchased, and
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I simply love butterflies. They are like beautiful and carefree souls flitting about from flower to flower, just doing what they love to do. For me they represent transition, emergence, and transformation – and the mystery of what all that means. The ending of something old, and the beginning of something new – yet to
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Life is a balancing act at the best of times but after spending several weeks “taming” my new computer into submission, it’s left me feeling a little unbalanced, dealing with too much technology and not enough creative playtime. I stitch a little every day though. I make the time to do it, even if it’s
There are lots of different ways to colorize a photo in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, and the techniques used depend on whether your original photo is in color or black and white. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to take a color photo, desaturate it, and then colorize parts of it. This is a
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