Fortunately, the Creativity I enjoy is more of a sedate kind. Creative thoughts but sedate positions. Angel Tears, sketching, garden designing, writing, all require little movement. As I get into the “zone” I find that music helps get me pumped up, organized, calmed, and focused. After ...
The next hat is on the needles after myAzules Hatfinished. I am calling this the Volcan Hat. Still a skein of Malabrigo Rios from mydopamine shopping tripin the color Volcan. For sure this is my next meeting/training knitting. In no shock to this space, this is my go-to 88 stitch b...
The fast-paced episodes offer hilarious stories that will have everypony in stitches. Be sure to catchMy Little Pony: Tell Your Talenow available on YouTube and Netflix! This book is a level 1 I Can Read, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences....
Oscar Howard I wouldn’t say this had me in stitches, but it’s a quintessentialNew Yorkercartoon, the type you might expect from Helen Hokinson in the 1940s.*** Like Plummer, though, cartoonist Oscar Howard only made a few appearance in the magazine. All in All… Harold Ross and Jane...
Depending the experience level of prospective students and the length of the workshop, other embroidery stitches can be taught. Instruction on basic symmetry of simple motifs is an option. This workshop is suitable for both half day (3 hour) and full day workshops. The level can be set by...
Next, I was looking through all the cross stitches I have begun and ignored for a while and pulled out this beautiful sampler called Oh My Bird by Teresa Kogut Creative Whims. This was one of those impulse purchases, and honestly, so many of the patterns I’ve purchased are impulse buys...
Of course, it was after paying to have my hand rewrapped that I tripped on a curb and instinctively put out my hands to break my fall. Not a good instinct: the impact pulled at my stitches and, I could have sworn, every nerve ending in that hand. I had not cried once the previous...
I believe that once you open your Creative portal you’ll never be able to close it again. That is, unless youreallywant to. I don’t want to. And I hope you don’t want to, either. Life often sucks around us. I’m dealing with some pretty serious “situations” around me these...
Reams of other children’s books, inlcuding other Enid Blyton titles, but never theFamous Five. I laughed myself into stitches! This book was a wonderful adventure romp, but also the most singularly politically incorrect text I’ve come across in decades. It made my Saturday morning. That Sa...
(as such, back to front). Pin at the edge where the two closures meet, and sew set up. Sew along the pinned lines, and trim the very tip of the fabric off at the peak of the triangle, being careful not to cut the stitches. This will help in a minute when we flip it inside ...