has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Portrait of one of my cats, Kiwi who is considered my baby, haha. She is a 10 year old chocolate point Siamese who I adore far too much.
I traced an older photo of her and satin stitched over it in varying shades of brown from really dark to really light. [obviously]. I hand wrote her name as well.
Saw this <a href="http://friendsoftype.com/2010/04/wake-up/" rel="nofollow">sweet bit of type</a> on Friends of Type, a blog I follow, and right when I saw it, I thought to myself "That would look awesome in thread." So I did it.
This was digitized by Ed Nacional. Credit goes to him for this design, I just stole it!
3 DMC threads on 14 count black aida.
645, 648 & 666.
The thing it's on is my headboard by the way.
Tracing a photo with a fabric marker onto this fabric, then sewing over I made a little portrait of my parents.
It was for an assignment that was just "Family Portrait" so this is what I did, confusing my teacher a bit.
Regardless I like it a lot and I think I'm going to do more, only on a bigger scale.
PS - my parents' eyes are not gimp in real life.
Ricky: One of my favourites on the same subject is ‘a camel is a horse designed by committee’.
Karl: What d’you mean?
Ricky: It’s just a metaphor. If you wanted to design a horse and you had that vision but you let 12 people in a room have their say, it wouldn’t come out as you wanted it to and it wouldn’t be as good. A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.
Steve: Rick, can I just say now: I can tell from Karl’s look that he’s thinking, ‘Which committee designed the camel?
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Karl: Well I’d just say: why would you request the hump bit? ‘Cause that’s just gonna get in the way innit? I mean I have always said that about a lot of animals. It’s like we’ve doubled up on a lot of ’em. We have chatted about elephants and mammoths. One or the other! And it’s the same with a camel. I’d have that up there as ‘what are they doing?’ They were good, years ago in the Jesus times and that. Don’t need ’em now. D’you know what I mean? We have moved on.
Ricky: (laughing) ‘We’ve moved on.’
Steve: Not the people who use camels to cross deserts.
Little cushion made using one of Sublime Stitches patterns. It took a while but all the colours and learning was worth it.
The first embroidery project I've done using this technique of embroidery instead of cross stitch. The pattern was hand drawn using one of Sublime Stitches' patterns as a reference.
The text is a Karl Pilkington poem in my own writing stitched over. If you can't read it it says "it would be spiteful to put a jellyfish in a trifle."
