Blog Archives

120 Days and Counting

7/21/2020

I noticed that I have now been home, due to the pandemic, for 120 days. I have left the house a few times for minor trips to do the grocery shopping, lab work required by the doctor, and one trip to work to pickup some notes I left behind under the assumption it would only be a week - HA!

I did an assessment of what has been accomplished - not cleaning the house or taking walks; but lots of lines of code for the day job, books and temari.

You can go read about the temari in other blog posts so I thought I would like the books I have read, so far. I have averaged about one per week and I leave it to you to go look them up. Many are series and they can be out of order

The Collapsing Empire
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox
The Sparrow
The Children of God
The Magicians
The Magician King
The Magician's Land
Fractured Stars
Junk Yard
Spiked
Splintered
Spliced
Goldilocks
This is How You Loose the Time War
The Engines of God
DeepSix
Chindi (started today)

0 Comments

July Pandemic Stats

7/20/2020

0 Comments

PANDEMIC STATS

Days in Isolation (not counting trips to the supermarket or doctor) :
- 120 or
- 17 weeks or
- 2880 hours or
- 32.8% of the year
Books Read: 17 (that's one per week!)
Temari Made: 26 (more than one per week)

0 Comments

Temari Certification (Level 2) Lesson 8 and 9

7/19/2020

Lesson 8 is continuous path stitching which is a follow on to the Flax Leaf from lesson 7. Lesson 9 is for stitching a thimble ring pattern (a.k.a yubinuki) for the obi. And I finished lesson 8 and then just went into lesson 9 as that was what I have been waiting to do for a year when I first learned this was a required technique - because I also stitch actual yubinuki thimble rings!!

So first up are pictures of the temari the continuous stitching which I will admit I rushed through and my teach pointed out that my stitching accuracy was not as good soooooo, it would be best if I did one of the two temari over. Which I did this past week.

For lesson 9, yubinuki obi, there was only 1 temari to stitch but I decided to do an extra temari as a bonus round. The stitching of the edge of yubinuki is different for a temari obi than it is for an actual yubinuki. Because of this, I started a practice temari to work on the edge stitch. I was almost done when I then set it aside as my stitches were finally consistent in tension, spacing and level at the top and bottom. I then started the temari again but I worked slowly and carefully and it came it really well. Then I did a bonus temari with a similar pattern but different colors.

I have sent everything off for review and I will start Lesson 10 sometime this week

Temari Certification (Level 2) Pattern #6

7/3/2020

0 Comments

This week I started to work on the last pattern write up that is required as part of the certification. A few weeks ago I was looking for something to stitch and write up and it had to be a C10 design. I looked through my books for inspiration and I came across a pattern with a stitch I had not seen before. It is a actually called a reverse kiku (herringbone) on a triangle shape. I have since fallen in love with this stitch. For a C10, I stitched it on the 6-part triangles and which framed the pentagon. I used 5 different shades of green and worked to have each of the 5 greens only once around the pentagon. I then chose 6 shades of blue and stitched a kiku in the pentagon and, again, worked the blues so the adjacent pentagons all were different shades.

I am now planning another temari with nothing but reverse kikus!

0 Comments

120 Days and Counting

July Pandemic Stats

Temari Certification (Level 2) Lesson 8 and 9

Temari Certification (Level 2) Pattern #6

About Laurie

Archives

Categories