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Inspired by: Heather Bailey! www.flickr.com/photos/heather_bailey/151365090/ She made some and I had to try. I couldnt figure out how to distress mine as good as hers but they still turned out great! I laid them out on the most beautiful Heather Bailey Fabric! :)
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Crochet Group Project.
Thread: Clea 10. Colors: #7650 Lt. Mocha, #7625 Mocha.
Hook: Clover Soft Touch #0/1.75mm.
Diameter: 14".
Date made: March 31, 2009.
For: Homepage Contest entry.
Famine is an example of thread painting in the extreme. This piece is made entirely out of thread - like illustrating with of a needle instead of using a ball point pen. The deep ruts in the landscape represent what it feels like to be used up - mentally, physically, and creatively. The horizon is so far away, an uphill climb through rough terrain, almost too far an expanse to travel. All that remains is desolation and despair.
Two Madeira thread packs in on-trend aqua blue and red, PLUS a bonus chart book of cross stitch ideas to use your free threads – all with issue 216 of The World of Cross Stitching mag
This arrived in the mail this morning from Krista. It's my prize from Tallgrass Prarie Studios Joy in the New Year.
It's it cute cute cute!!! Can't wait to start using it. Thanks Krista!
Cotton loom detail
Augusta's major industries in the 1800's were cotton trading and cotton mills, manufacturing cotton cloth. Today there are only two functioning mills left.
PTS6--OK Partner. What do you think about embroidery on your pillow? Are any of these colors calling your name?
Designer: Elizabeth Hiddleson.
Source: Decorative Crochet, March 1993, #32, pp. 36, 39.
Thread: Thread Art Classic Crochet Cotton 10. Color: #20 Lilac.
Hook: Boye #7/1.65mm.
Size: 12.75 inches.
Made: 05-16-11.
A Common Thread: Textiles from the Permanent Collection
In honor of the East-West Center Gallery’s 20th anniversary and the East-West Center’s 55th anniversary, this exhibition will feature a selection of textiles rarely seen by the general public, including new works recently donated and never before exhibited. The works will include: batik from Indonesia and Malaysia, embroidered clothes from China, kilim carpet weaving from Iran, Indian zardozi, Cambodian ikat, naturally-dyed Lao silk weaving, Samoan siapo, Bangladeshi kantha, Korean chokakpo, Japanese silk kimono and obi, Uzbeki suzani, Burmese shwe gyi do, Syrian silk, Filipino Bontoc weaving, and more.
East-West Center Gallery
May 24-Sept 20 2015
Color Selection from left to right:
turquoise, lavender, olive green, country red, chocolate, robin egg blue, dark blue, williamsburg blue, bright yellow, tan, black, teal blue, royal blue, dark forest, maroon, butterscotch.
I've never really like the aesthetics of threadless stems, so I went ahead and had my steerer tube cut and threaded.