all of them 1 to 100.

I’m still stitching away on the tally project. It started of as an assignment for screen printing but I’ve found it’s been a gift to me. The making of the little stitches had me mouthing the lyrics to ‘live like you’re dying’ as I passed the needle and thread through the fabric. With each stitch I strengthened, not only the linen but my own fabric as well, and it made me feel pretty good.

The weekend at home was just exactly what I needed. The kids and I watched back to back movies and ate icy poles. It was nice to share the over sized sofa with the crew and escape the heat. There was genuine interest in the stitching and the keeping count. I need to spend more time on the sofa with the family, the perle thread and lovely linen. It made for a VERY nice change from my regular ‘hospital sheet’ base.

Find more creative spaces here.

I’ve had this embroidery project on the ‘to do’ for what seems like forever. It was dreamed of, planned and even stitched in my head before I even raided the stash for supplies. The original artwork was stolen from Henri Matisse but the stitches are my own.

The laziness of the January hush has given me the time I needed to sit on the sofa watching (kind of) the teev and stitching. The piece is about A3 size so it’s a slow burn. I’m really enjoying the meditative stitches though.

In order to avoid my default teeny tiny stitches I’ve been ‘arms length stitching’. It’s perfectly haphazard for this project. There are probably got another 3 or 4 movies left to go and I’m hoping to have it finished by the end of the hols and gifted not long after.

And another thing…

I spent time with my lovely mate Shaz in her new studio. You can check that out here.

See what all the other creative spacers have been up to right here.

“what can’t be seen”

little words…
little stitches…

I stole the words from Les Walkling.
The stitches are my own.

Those words make me want to be better, try harder, learn more…

just four little words.

I’ve attended a number of workshops with Les over the last 18 months. I was told he was the man … by people in the know. He didn’t disappoint, in fact those workshops surpassed all my expectations.

If you’re interested in the click you can find the 2013 workshop calendar here.

Project details:
Single strand embroidery floss stitched Koo style (also stolen, but from Ike Rosen)
Hotel grade sheeting
9cm x 12cm

And another thing…

Pip & I took a road trip to Tyabb a couple of weeks ago. There was so much good stuff to look at. I think you can see where I took my inspiration for the little stitched piece I’ve been working on…

You can see the other things that took our fancy at Tyabb right here.
Don’t forget to check out other creative spaces here.

Nothing to see here folks. I’m sure you’ve come to accept my promises of “a couple of minutes/hours/days” as empty by now but I wanted to prove to you it was just a flash that left as quickly as it arrived.

Seems I’ve quite forgotten just how time consuming the stitching is. In true Koo fashion I completely underestimated how long it would take. Let’s for a moment pretend I didn’t spend 3 hours frenching knots before I decided I hated them and started over.

I’m no where near done but it’s a beginning.

PS: Ike Rosen is the business.

I’m not so sure about the time investment with this little quilt. I’ve spent around 40 hours on it…ridiculous really for something that’s entirely useless.

I based it loosely on the idea of the patchwork paving & used a mathomat to create the squares and rectangles.

I had planned to make something similar for our bed. That plan is now resting beside the pile of brown granny squares on the “too hard” shelf.

The mini is a wee bit late but my partner should have it early next week.

Thanks Kate for organising the swap. You can see further mini quilts made for the swap right here.

Happy weekend folks.