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Posts tagged ‘skull’

sweet skulls…

here it is.  there was much pain and foul language and waving around of arms near the end, but after somewhere between 5 and 8 hours (i have almost no sense of time, which i attribute to acute adhd) it is complete! it’s on the left side (left if you’re the one wearing it, right [...]

more wip wip wip… will this project ever end?

I think this is the longest embroidery project I’ve ever done… I worked on it for what must have been a couple of hours last night and it’s still not finished!  But anyways, here’s an update:

wip wip wip

Here is a peak at what I was working on last night… Yes, that’s a skull and those are roses.  Take a look at the detail on the roses: Texture on the roses is created by not only the direction and length of the stitches, but by layering the stitches as well.  This is going [...]

oooooh, shiny!

this project has been under wraps for a while: It was originally meant to be a pin-cushion, but I went a little crazy… I couldn’t help it, the pins and buttons were just screaming at me to be involved.  I found the skull ribbon in the Halloween clearance bin and I just knew!  Red thread [...]

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