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Orange Rug Yarn Musings

Orange Rug Yarn Musings

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Adventures in embroidery and other fibre arts.

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  • Doodling Designs

    Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 19:38 in drawing, design, free-style embroidery

    I'm taking a class called "Doodling Designs" with Susan Sorrell through Joggles. It's a lot of fun and I'm stretching myself quite a bit. Some photos of some of my work from class: Week 1: Week 2: This is still a work in progress Week 3: ...

  • A Minor Obsession

    Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 18:59 in Background, ang, canvaswork needlepoint, cyberpointers

    Earlier this year, my ANG chapter Cyberpointers did Marilyn Owen's Folding Ort Box out of the Chapter Project Book. I wasn't able to work on it at that time, but started it about a month ago. In the last few weeks, it has become a minor obsession f...

  • Continuous Wrapping Stitch

    Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 00:06 in Background, ega, counted thread, canvaswork needlepoint

    Continuous Wrapping is a stitch used in Casalguidi, a traditional Italian embroidery done on a counted ground that is very dimensional. I learned this stitch as part of the EGA Correspondence Course "Casalguidi and Lavender" by Barbara M. Kershaw. ...

  • Blogathon to Support the EGA

    Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 00:18 in ega

    Starting at 6am tomorrow, July 25th, I will be participating in Blogathon to support the Embroiders' Guild of America. I've set up a blog just for this at Selfless Stitching where I will be posting a blog post every half hour. Please come visit and...

  • Diamond Iris

    Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 01:45 in canvaswork needlepoint, cyberpointers

    I haven't shown any of my progress on Diamond Iris since the first petal, but it's now all done except for part of the outer boarder filling. If you look closely, you can see the empty border and single and double running stitch. I'd like to try th...

  • Mattress Pincushion Nametag

    Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 16:00 in counted thread, canvaswork needlepoint

    As a member of the cyberchapters of both the EGA and ANG, I don't have a lot of occasions to wear a chapter nametag, so I was thinking that it would be nice to have a nametag that would somehow be useful for our virtual meetings too. As a new chapte...

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