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Orange Rug Yarn Musings
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Adventures in embroidery and other fibre arts.
Recent Posts
Doodling Designs
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
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
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
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
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
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...

