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How I Random Stitch

Posted in Random Stitch, Stitch, lucy, needlepoint, tagged , on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Before I ever stitch, I Goggle pictures of animals if I am not familiar with the animal to see how nature makes this animal’s fur/feathers grow (I did this for the eagle, Leopold, (more about these later) and I had the original picture I used to have Lucy painted). I look at the canvas and get an [...]

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Week-end Stitching

Posted in Books, Stitch, lucy, needlepoint, tagged , , on July 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Friday I was looking for something in my den and found “Lucy.” I had not forgotten about her…hard to do since she is at my feet all the time…but her needlepoint had just gotten put aside …out of site out of mind. All that was left to stitch was Lucy’s fur…so this weekend I stitched [...]

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Lucy is back

Posted in lucy, needlepoint, tagged , on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Poor little Lucy got lost in the shuffle. That and the fact that I hit a stitching block. See her paws? Well they were driving me nuts, I think I took them out 3-4 times. I decided to put her up and wait to see if this last stitching would not bother me as time [...]

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Lucy has ears & eyes

Posted in Shading Technique, Thread, lucy, needlepoint, tagged , , , , , on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

  Lucy got eyes and ears this week and in fact has some of her legs stitched now. But for today’s post I want to talk about her eyes and ears.
Lucy’s eyes are stitched with DMC floss in basketweave whenever possible; otherwise it is a continental stitch when necessary. And yes, I carried the threads from [...]

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Lucy’s background is finally finished

Posted in Stitch, lucy, needlepoint, tagged , on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

       
The background for Lucy is finished. I thought this Burden stitch was more boring to stitch than Basketweave, but I wanted the striping to be horizontal rather than diagonal. I foolishly decided that I did not like the meeting of the black with the Burden Stitch and would do a Wrapped Backstitch between these areas. I [...]

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More catch up and then we are finished

Posted in Stitch, first blogs, lucy, needlepoint, tagged , , on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This was the next post after almost one month of frustration.
January 10, 2008 post
Okay, one of these days I’m going to get the jest of bloging..but it probably won’t be today. I again have spent the better part of today trying to get my Flickr account to talk with my blog They must have had [...]

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Transfer, catch-up and go on

Posted in first blogs, lucy, needlepoint, tagged on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I spent yesterday, trying to transfer my old blog to this blog and have come to the conclusion that I just need to cut and paste. So the old blog is in italicized and editorial comments have been added.
Dec 19, 2007
Everything begins at some point and here is mine… my first post…my first blog.
I [...]

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