Tag: embroidery

  • Quilt project – part 2

    Okay, I can go a bit too far sometimes.  I wanted this to look more like a fish, more scaly and fewer lines, so I’m sewing the beads on individually.  I like the effect, but I didn’t really allow enough time for it.  And I liked the look of these small transparent flat ab sequins…

  • Quilt project

    A coworker at a former place of employment (a former coworker at a former place of employment?) is retiring, and for a gift, one coworker is putting together a memory quilt.  She asked for photos, did photo transfers onto squares of fabric, and we are to embellish them in any fashion we’d like.  I think…

  • Check out the Remembering Cindy Etsy shop!

    The Remembering Cindy shop, starring the Mystery Image Challenge panels, has had many things added to it. The panels are there to be ogled (and purchased!); postcards are available if you’d like the images on large, glossy postcards — 4 postcards, one panel/postcard. Beaded items, strung items, even painted items were originally donated by artists…

  • Remembering Cindy

    Cindy McCornack was a friend and mentor to beaders, in person and online. She lived in Alaska, but had friends all over the world through the online beading community, especially the Bead Art forum. Among the things she left for beaders was her book, Exploring Beaded Art Dolls, full of instructions, inspiration, and photographs of…