“Your underside finger will get pricked, but then it will build up a callus and you can show them off to other quilters.”
Oh my, how quickly that callus builds up!
After one seven-hour and one four-hour hand-quilting sessions, I have mild calluses on my left middle and index fingers. Not wanting to go through life unable [...]
Did we all remember the end of Daylight Savings Time today? I didn’t. Showed up to work an hour early at 6:45am. I could have had another damn hour of sleep! Bah! Oh well, gives me time to get organized and recap my night’s stitching.
I’ve already discussed my exciting Friday, which was spent on the [...]
I haven’t been hugely interested in hand quilting thus far. It’s something that’s been in the back of my mind, but my lack of confidence and even stitches has prevented me from diving headlong into it. A few tentative forays into hand-stitching/embroidery stuffs have left me with an underwhelming feeling of “meh.”
Now, though, after Barbara [...]
I’ve seen dozens of posts extolling the virtues of these little hexagons:
They’re hand-sewn using hexagon templates. The templates can be any number of substances – construction paper, freezer paper, Teflon – and each has its virtues. Most are reusable, which is a fine and good thing. For my first foray into this arena, I picked [...]
In the spirit of personalizing and adding some visual interest to tote bags and towels and potholders and god knows what else, I figured I’d learn how to embroider. Working with floss is surely a bit easier than standard needle and thread, and I need to learn these things. Last night, I picked a scrap [...]