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| 'Mariposa'© My travel project, are those colors fun or what?! All packed and ready to go, flight leaves tomorrow. Am I just a little excited....oh yes I am! Chat with you in a couple of weeks, Ciao! [side trip to Italy too] |
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| Once again, I love what I do! Even when it takes an entire day to accomplish one small area! I haven't come up with a name for my beast, it'll come to me though. Scales, sparkle and shine and ... well defined! |
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| His ear and eye ridge. Eye ridges are important to dragons. |
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| So a little more sparkle to the ridge. I managed to move to an area that is the Sahara Desert of Needlepoint. Not one shop is close by. I do, however, know how to pick up the phone. But ... sometimes ... WHO wants to wait. The idea is there and you're ready to stitch. This happened on his eye ridge. I only have Kreinik #8 in 3202, one of my favorites, so it's not odd that I'm out of a size. Another BUT ... did you know you can strip/ply some braids?? It's not easy but it is possible. So I gently extricated three very fine plies from my #8 and worked just the tiniest bit of string art on his ridge ... and it's perfecto! Warning...this may take a while for me to stitch. I'm on a roll right now but shortly I'll be winging my way to Germany for ... drum roll ... can you believe it's been a year??? Emma's first birthday!!!
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| 'Camel Flowers'© close up detail ... when I see this I think ... wow, I was focused ! |
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| Different angle of top detail. I'm working on another design right now that's a larger version of this burst of color. Never a dull moment. |
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| Camel Flowers© This piece started with the 'flowers' that were actually saddles I had painted on a friends stand up camels for a nativity she felt needed some blinging. As I painted I kept seeing the saddles as flowers, hence the name. This piece may be on the small side but it's packed with different techniques and threads choices. |
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| From major technique to meditative basketweave. This is my Provence Purse© design. I even made the strap basic Kumihimo with a strong nylon craft cord. |
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| 'Austintatious Peacock'© This piece was actually designed for a friend to stitch for her secret Santa gift. Funny part is the giftee was also the owner of the camels! Dear friend of mine as well, Kim Hollifield. |
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| So much in the detail, loved finding crystals for his wreathed neck. |
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| By this time... you know how much I love designing borders. |
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| Mondays Belt Design the canvas this is laid across is the beginning of the painted Provence Purse. |
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| Mondays© original piece designed to fit the Weekender bag from Lee Designs This bag has seen some miles! |
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| I'm not sure what I'll call this yet...Sunburst, Happiness.... I see a lot when I look at the different elements in this piece. Below is the beginning of it's new life on the painted canvas. |
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| Happy Sunburst....maybe....the beginnings. Only the pinks & red are in so far. I see feathers too.... |
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| Sir Chancelot's thought bubble... 'just name it already'.  |
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| Butterfly Camera Strap© for my sis in law. This will also come to life in a carpet bag I'm dreaming of. |
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| 'Little Lamb'© On it's way to Ruth soon for production. This guy has always seemed Eastery or perfect for someone who knits! |
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| The walls of 'My Castle', just the beginnings. Just peeks! |
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| Happy Spring Flowers blooming on a new canvas! |
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| Reaching toward bright sunshine! |
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| Class is scheduled for May 30 & 31. We'll have a wonderful time exploring color, texture and definitely a few different ways to work a bullion! |
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| 'Mondays' belt design by me! Finished this a while ago... just getting around to photographing and posting. Santa found this in my finished pile and turned it into this beautiful belt for me. |
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| At some point I hope to fit a small desk in the far corner. Having the laptop on my drawing table doesn't work. |
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| I am loving this corner. My poor stitching chair is badly in need of re upholstering ... someday. I asked for a ledge to be constructed above the windows/door around three walls. Here I can display finished and not so finished pieces without making a lot of holes in the walls. So far it's working perfectly. |
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| I still need to paint the storage bench. I'm so relieved to be finished with my 'Magic Carpet'. Now to design a long rectangular cushion for the center of the bench. I can see a certain granddaughter perched on there. If she's not too distracted by all the cool stuff on my desk. |
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| Just look at her sweet face. My sweetest Valentine, little Emma. I haven't posted a picture of my growing up all too fast granddaughter in a while. She's almost walking at nine months! Over the past year... I've been adapting my art to the painted needle point canvas. In celebration of today... here are a few of the Valentine pieces that have made the transition so far. |
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| Flower Power© The gals at Bedecked and Beadazzled have pulled some beautiful threads to work this up. The shop offer to the first caller/emailer/private message via FaceBook is 10% off the canvas and threads! |
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| Heartful© |
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| Blooming Heart© |
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| This almost felt like the forever project. Looking forward to sitting in the purple stitching chair newest project in hand. I need to add here that the paint I used is Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan. The supplier is Black Swan Bazaar. I had a lot of guidance from Richard and Yvonne, two fabulous people that had a lot of patience with all my questions...I about went nuts trying to achieve that wonderful shade of raspberry! |
| I am very excited to announce that I've been asked to come teach my 'Blossom' design for Chandail in Houston, Texas!!  |
| "Blossom" a Kimberly design©2014 This design is full of fun stitching. We'll certainly fill up two class days with a lot color, technique, and texture! I've used beautiful ribbon, a few beads, Memory Wire, silks silks and more silks, of course there is a little sparkle too with metallics and some new to even me thread! |
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| We'll explore bullions, cast on, couching, and even blackwork. We'll layer, loop, and French knot our way through this design! |
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| Come join us at Chandail May 30 & 31 [click here for more details] this will take you to Chandail's home page, click on classes & workshops, scroll down... there I am! |
