Stitch-Cast

Episode 3 -- Embroidery

Show Notes for Episode 3 - Embroidery

Crewel Embroidery:

• The New Crewel by Katherine Shaughnessy
• How can you be so crewel? group blog
• Crewel along

Cross Stitch:

• My post on French monochromatic cross-stitch designs at whip up
• Paradigm Lost (which I'm going to stitch):
  
• Stitching Bits and Bobs - shop where I bought my Long Dog Sampler chart and special ordered my threads.
• The French Needle -- Online needlework shop I just discovered that appears to carry lots of the French designs I love!
• The Cross Stitcher's Bible

Unfinished Object:

• Theresa Wentzler Needlework Designs
• My progress:
  
• What the finished Fantasy Triptych looks like.

Embroidery Ideas:

• Kids' Embroidery by Kristin Nicholas
• Colorful Stitchery by Kristin Nicholas

The Pincushion Challenge starts Monday -- Check my blog for details -- Booga J

Music: 

• Sarah Dougher ~ Bella Abzug
• Elliott Smith ~ Memory Lane
• Bad Religion ~ Sorrow

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Episode 2 -- The Dye Pot

Show Notes for Episode 2 - The Dye Pot

Dyes I have known

• Lanaset Dye Kit from Sheep Hollow
• Gaywool Dyes from The Fold

Laceweight dyeing photo set on Flickr.

I used Gaywool Dye in the color Cranberry to dye my hank of laceweight (yarn brand and content unknown). 

Three new books arrive at my house this week:

• Knitting Rules! by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• Mason-Dixon Knitting by Kay Gardiner & Ann Meador Shayne
• Color Harmony for Quilts by Bill Kerr & Weeks Ringle

News:

• Pincushion challenge coming soon! (Visit tie one on.)
  
• Contest at whip up!

Music from this episode:

• Sound Scientist by bill
• Square Back by EE
• Madness by The Bombhappies
• Airwaves Piano by Guy David
• Standing at the Door by Duvall
• Opening and closing music is Art of the Piano by Josh James

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