Cross-Stitch - Blackwork Diptych |
I've not posted anything for a while, so here's nothing.This is two 'blackwork' pieces, although there's relatively little black in them. 'Redwork' sounds confusing particularly as there's gold thread...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:52:00 GMT |
Russian Cross-Stitch - "If Youre Afraid of Wolves..." |
I love foreign idioms,as, often, foreign languages not only have fantastic words to describe things, situations and feelings - schadenfruede and katzenjammer, to name two great German words - but ofte...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:25:00 GMT |
Cross-stitch - SATOR square |
My first introduction to the 'Sator Square' or any other kind of magic square was in the 80s through a copy of S.L. MacGregor Mathers' translation of 'The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mag...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:05:00 GMT |
Cross-Stitch - The End Is Nigh sandwich board |
I admire those people that wear sandwich boards or stand on the streets speaking and passing out leaflets, even if I don't agree with the actual message of their proselytising. It's one thing to join ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:26:00 GMT |
Cross-Stitch - John Dees signature and Hieroglyphic Monad |
John Dee is one of my most favourite British historical figures. Whilst he known to most - or at least those that do know him - as an occultist, indeed 'Elizabeth the 1st's magician' and the inspirati...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:12:00 GMT |
Cross-Stitch - The Damneds Friday the 13th EP |
I mentioned in another blog that I've started using 18ct rather than 14ct. I like the crudeness of 14ct a lot as it lends itself a folky, primative feel but it's a bit limiting in that anything fairly...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:26:00 GMT |
Jarvis |
Last Friday, the 30th May, Jarvis, our beautiful little hedgehog died. It's really hard for me to put into words how much I miss him.Best Friends Forever.
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:49:00 GMT |
Cross Stitch - Oh Perilous World. Inspired by Rasputina |
Not much to say really, as the blog entry's title sums it up: inpsired by the Rasputina album of the same name. I had to take it out of the glass to photograph it as my big, ugly moonface kept appeari...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:40:00 GMT |
Cross Stitch & Meet the Folks 4 - Joseph Oliver died 1816 |
I manage to shoehorn both genealogy and cross-stitch into a single entry with this. I am quite the dull fucker.Joseph Oliver was my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Obviously I never k...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:13:00 GMT |
Cross Stitch - Sod The Bloody Housework |
Weirdly, I got asked to do a cross stitch for someone recently. I was asked to "tone the language down a bit" though so my usual ’Sweary Mary’ vocabulary got altered slightly. Look at me,...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:10:00 GMT |
