I’m quite late with the current Stitching Blogger’s Question, which is: If you had to choose, would you rather spend money on overdyed floss or hand-dyed fabric? Overdyed floss, certainly. I’ve only purchased one piece of hand-dyed fabric, and nobody is likely to go, “Oh, wow!” about the effect in the finished piece (although I’m happy, […]
SBQ: What do you do with oorts?
The current Stitching Blogger’s Question is: What do you do to your thread clippings? Do you just scrap them or do you use them in something else? I throw them away, as I don’t know what else I would do with them. The only possible use I know of is a vague memory of someone on RCTN using […]
SBQ: Balance?
The Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week (really last week) is: How do you balance your stitching time with your other obligations such as work, household chores, etc.? That isn’t really an issue for me, as I haven’t been stitching lately. I really need to go buy some floss so I can get past a stumbling […]
SBQ: Stitching Publications
The Stitching Bloggers Question of the Week: Do you currently subscribe to any stitching publications or have you in the past? (Either in print or online) If so, which ones? I don’t subscribe to any at the moment, and I rarely buy them off the rack. I have hundreds of them in my stash, and I keep […]
SBQ: Sick of a WIP?
The Stitching Blogger’s Question of the Week is: Do you ever get to a point working on a project that you’ve had for so long, you start to wonder what possessed you to start it in the first place? Of course! It has always happened with patterns I chose to do for someone else, though, rather than those […]
SBQ: Blended Threads
And another Stitching Blogger Question: How do you handle blended threads? Do you kit the blends up before you start a piece, or do you grab what colors you need and blend when the need arises? If you kit up the blends beforehand, how do you store them? Do you have another option for blends to share? I […]
SBQ: Most Complicated Piece?
I’m behind on the Stitching Bloqqer Questions, so I’ll do them for the next few days. What is the most complicated piece you’ve ever completed? I’m trying to figure out how to judge how complicated someone else would judge a piece to be. Size? Different types of stitches? Embellishments? For sheer cussedness, though it was worth […]
SBQ: Stitching weaknesses?
What is your cross stitch weakness? (i.e., What do you have to have when you see it, even if you are supposed to be on the Wagon?) I’m supposed to go telling my weaknesses, in public? Well, I guess I’ve already exposed them, considering the lists on my site. I adore “different” patterns. If it jumps […]
SBQ: Starting Over?
The Stitching Bloggers’ Question of the Week is: Do you have any projects that you have scrapped and started over? What made you start over from scratch? I can only remember one, and I restarted it at least twice, maybe three times. It was the Celtic Cross designed by Deb Davis for Y‑Knot Designs. I think […]
SBQ: Other crafts?
This weekend’s Stitching Bloggers Question: Are there other crafts that you have tried and abandoned? Why do you like stitching better? Short version: Because it’s one of the few visually-beautiful things I’ve ever been good at.