About the Mob
Well, really it's a mob of one, but you get the idea. I'm just me, in Hotlanta, but through me there are many others (yes, we are numerous), and we have teh pointy sticks (fear them), and besides that, we make pretty things. Mostly.All Them Thangs
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Tag Archives: sewing
Keep me to task
Guilt is a powerful motivator, especially coming from anonymous internet people. Really, that’s why I’m blogging – it keeps me honest. Those analytics make me feel bad, when they’re bad, and it’s a good kick-start. Like the embroidery, for example. … Continue reading
Posted in General stuff, Hindi, sca
Tagged crafts, embroidery, Hindi, language, sca, sewing
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Moar chain-stitch
Plus pizza. The fiber of today’s friday is not the yarn kind, but instead my current obsession, which is chain-stitch embroidery. (I went looking for examples of this sort of thing, and wanted CC-licensed stuff, and lo and behold this … Continue reading
Posted in Fiber Friday, General stuff, india, other links, sca
Tagged atlanta, design, embroidery, fiber, Fiber Friday, india, napoli, pizza, sca, sewing, web design, website, zari
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All righty, then.
Remember that thing I said about being distracted easily? It’s so true. Case in point: That there is tambour embroidery, which I spent a little over an hour working on last night at Project Night. A while back, I’d made … Continue reading
RUM, and rum.
[NOTE: this is a very SCA-heavy post. VERY.] There was much of both to be had this past weekend, which is both an excuse for my blogging absence and not one at all. That is, I blog when I’m much … Continue reading
Posted in Cool things, General stuff, india
Tagged costuming, india, projects, sari, sca, sewing
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The choli vexes me
First, though, I got a lot done this weekend. I finished one of the Rivendell socks (it’s a little short, but not wholly uncomfortable), plied my first singles (woohoo!) and then sewed up the ghagra and patka for my garb. … Continue reading
Productiveness: FAIL
Well, I had intended to do a lot today. In reality, not much has happened the way that I wanted. You know those days – you wake up with a big list of “to dos” and then you find something … Continue reading
Things I have learned
Over the past two days: 1. I need to pin the fabric to the paper before trying to trace the pattern. This should be a no-brainer and yet here I am. 2. Salwar kameez are really frigging comfortable. No, really. … Continue reading
Quick and dirty.
This post, and the choli pattern I’ve got now. I spent some time at Leah’s house, wherein we could not find her zari supplies (oh, there’s still much time for this later, never fear) but ended up drafting a rather … Continue reading
More SCA rambling
To start: not SCA rambling. I’ve been making a really valiant effort to be non-messy at the moment, and I found an old baggie of catnip, which I sort of threw on the floor nonchalantly, to deal with later. When … Continue reading
