Embroidered Graffiti

One quick post tonight.

Check out this guy's blog: Historically Inaccurate.

He has some really amazing artwork, but my favorite is his graffitied toile pieces. He stitches over the pattern to make cool and funny stuff.

Here are two of my favorites, but you should totally take a look at his whole site (including archived posts!)

I love the bird costume!

Something new

So, if you know me, you'll know I'm into crafting - I knit, crochet, and any number of other things. I have just discovered a new one - embroidery. I love the way it looks and it's really pretty easy to do. I love to knit, but it takes so long to finish anything. Maybe I'm just a slow knitter. But the embroidery projects that I've been doing are easy and quick gratification.

I've been most inspired by one book:

Doodle Stitching by Aimee Ray. Her designs are totally cute and the instructions are very clear.

I've already made several items:

This is a sampler bag to practice the various stitch techniques. It holds some of my tools - hoop, scissors, fabric marker, needles. I really love the blue on brown.

Another project from the book is a wall hanging. I've made two:

J decided that there was a huge empty length of wall in our kitchen that NEEDED something, so I offered to make several of these 8"x8" scenes to make a "composition."

Two down, ten more to go...

A New Start

It's been almost a year since I last updated, and the pressure of reviewing books for this blog has been why. I am going to try something new - thus the template overhaul. I wanted something lighter.

The blogs that I enjoy and read most frequently are image heavy and text light. They are updated frequently (at least thrice a week) and posts are relatively short. I'm going to try to emulate that model and see if short, picture-laden posts will improve my frequency of updates and readership!

Time for a picture!

One of my goals is to become more organized. I tend to forget to do things - even when I really want to. This annoys husband J. So, I bought myself a whiteboard that now hangs next to my desk. So far it has been helpful. I see a list of the things I need to do every time I'm in the room. J and I can both add to the list and see when I've finished.

I think sometimes simple changes can help tremendously, if they are the right changes.