News / Octopus
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Jul 24, 2012
On My Bookshelf...Mrs Babcarys Diving Machine
Read more →I am being a lazy blogger. Not a lazy PERSON though, but a very busy one. But a lazy blogger because, forgive me, I am recycling this post from September 2011, because a) it’s a book, so relevent, b) because I am too knackered to write something new today, soz, and b) because it is LOVELY and only 16 people ave viewed it. Enjoy! Sometimes you get a little glimpse back into your childhood and rediscover something that makes you understand your grown-up self a bit more. This made me very happy. I used to LOVE this book, and this...
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May 05, 2012
From the depths he came...
Read more →I LOVE how he turned out. Using very dark aubergine purple silk, red eyes and white suckers to keep him semi-authentic ( I mean, we’re not going for scientific classification here). Uncanny resemblance, non? MWAHAHAHAHAHA!! He will be in the jewellery collection :)
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May 04, 2012
Vampire Squid From Hell
Read more →I had requests to do this design in purpley colours (you know who you are) but could’t resist making him VERY dark. Like, FROM HELL dark…
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Apr 22, 2012
More new designs
Read more →It’s been another stitchathon weekend, just the way I like it. I certainly feel like I’m getting into my stride in the last couple of weeks; I think it’s the springtime energy and the ‘new’ year*. I posted a tease of the latest miniature I’m developing for the jewellery collection, and now I can reveal him in all his glory: I gotta say, I am in love. He turned out so well! I’m so into this split stitch filling technique at the moment. Again I used some of my very fine silk, but these colours have a more subtle varigation,...
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Apr 20, 2012
Another little something
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Apr 19, 2012
Octopus love
Read more →Sorry there isn’t much step by step photography in this one – last weekend was a total stitch fest and I didn’t pause much…so here’s the before shot: When I did the transfer outline for this one, I pressed a bit too hard on the fresh ink so I got quite a coarse line. I was worried it would show through, but having done my two skulls I was totally into split stitch-shading everything so used this with some more variegated silk thread to hug the line really tightly. 3.5 hours later… I totally love him, and his little french...