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Continue reading →: New Year’s Resolution: Blog More!
Well, it has been a while, and a lot has been happening, and I’ve blogged none of it — sigh. I even meant to post this yesterday! There are lots of reasons, most of them valid — we spent three weeks in New Zealand and Australia which was lovely (I’ll…
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Still Figuring Things Out …
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Continue reading →: Still Figuring Things Out …I’m still a bit at sea with WordPress — but I got a few things rearranged for the blog layout, at least got rid of that interloper’s “About Me” (for those of you who didn’t see it, this particular template came with an “About Me” that was about somebody else,…
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Continue reading →: Hello World!
Welcome to WordPress! This is your first post. Edit or delete it to take the first step in your blogging journey. That is the sample text in the “first” WordPress post that is there automatically when one starts a blog. I feel rather awkward at the moment, like I’ve just…
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Continue reading →: Blindsided
TypePad is shutting down, effective September 30 — four weeks away. I got an e-mail from them just yesterday. We've been with them since 2005, when we started a private blog to keep in touch with our families while we were in Hong Kong, and it was while we were…
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Catching Up is Hard to Do
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Continue reading →: Catching Up is Hard to DoOoof, it has been a long time! I finished my "red work" piece not very long after the previous post, am very happy with it. This is a virtual frame before I blocked it and had it mounted, but I wasn't sure that I could photograph it well once the…
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Continue reading →: Bands Nine and Ten; and, Changing Tack
This band was adapted from a larger motif — both transcribed by Louisa Pesel — from a German sampler dated 1661, now in the V&A (accession no. 368-1907). While I was working it, I noticed a flaw in my fabric a little way down, where one of the horizontal threads…
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Continue reading →: Motto, and Bands Seven and Eight
This quote is from Mary Shelley from one of her lesser-known novels — The Last Man (1826) — and I admit that I have not read it, but I think the quote itself is a good philosophy of life, and I appreciated that the "intricate" part plays very well with…
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Continue reading →: Bands Four and Five
My blackwork sampler as of today. I really like this large band — so much 17th-century wackiness going on here! I debated a long time about whether to use one strand of silk or two, and went with two after mulling over a post on that topic at String or…
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Continue reading →: Beginning
I had a hankering for some blackwork, so here is the beginning of an original sampler, in that beautiful Gloriana silk in "Rosewood". I bought an antique frame on Ebay a few years ago that turned out not to fit my "Virtue Outshines the Stars," so am suiting this one…
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Continue reading →: Tucson PS; or, Fibery Fun
Actually, it's Mesa, a two-hour or so drive north of Tucson, but there it is. When David proposed the idea of a trip to visit our friends, I said, "Oh, and maybe we could stop by The Attic in Mesa …?" (We can also recommend The Cornish Pasty Co. a…
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