Here are a few of my favorite photos of Hearts (and the animals who love them) that people have made since a year ago.
A beautiful heart mobile from shessassy:
A super-happy heart (and kissing chihuahuas) from Dudimus:
A fluffy-stuffy heart (with neko-chan friend) from Tomoko:
A perfectly practical heart pin cushion from Pragmatic:
A simple heart brings together crocheted love birds from littleboxes:
Hearts take no time to make, if you need a last-minute gift!
Last Friday’s opening of “Forget Me-Not” at gallery hanahou was absolutely packed!
It was no surprise, since everybody was talking about this show, including Time Out, Poppytalk, Craft, Whipup, and tons of other websites and blogs.
The marvelous hand-stitched artwork is now all online for all to see and purchase at the gallery website.
A few more photos from the opening:
You can see more photos from the opening and last Saturday’s embroidery workshop on the gallery Flickr page.
The show is up through February 27th, so if you’re in NY, try to go see it!
gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC
[7th Floor of the Cable Building, NW corner of Broadway + Houston]
Mon-Fri noon-6 pm, Sat by appt only
646-486-6586
info@galleryhanahou.com
I also had a great time hanging out with curator Kristen Rask of Schmancy and Jenny Harada earlier in the week. You both did an amazing job!
I was sad to read this morning that Craft will stop publishing their print magazine after their current issue. They are vowing to continue to have a strong online presence, which I’m sure will be successful, but there was something fitting about a print publication for the new generation of people who like to make things with their hands.
I’m happy that I was able to have a pattern published in the magazine last year, and I hope I’ll get to work with them again in a different way in the future. Long live Craft!
I got started on the cross-stitch version of the Stackable Cats over the weekend! I’m pretty happy with it so far.
All Annie’s had in the way of 14-count cross stitch fabric was light blue and light pink, so I thought I’d give the blue a try. I think I rather like the effect.
I’ll be working on my full design (including more cats, birds, and balls of yarn) next, and if all goes well I plan to publish the pattern when it’s done!
The popular British knitting magazine Simply Knitting featured my Luvgun pattern in their February issue as one of “5 of the best Valentine’s treats.” I’m chuffed, I think!
(Isn’t John a lovely hand model?)
The issue also includes a new Alan Dart pattern for Simply the Sheep, who is very cute.
Kate Jeffery, aka discosmurf on Ravelry, designed a cute little dragonfly for a bug-themed mobile that she’s making, and she put the pattern up on Ravelry as a free download!
Last week I finally finished the cross-stitch that I started over Thanksgiving!
It was very exciting to complete it, but the photo isn’t so exciting because it just looks like a wrinkled version of the photo that the pattern came with. But I still like it and it was surprisingly very fun to make.
Almost immediately after finishing the little children and flowers, I got out some graph paper and colored pencils that I bought a couple weeks ago and started sketching out gridded versions of my Stackable Cats.
I very rarely sit down and work on drawing something, and after a few hours, I realized that the process was extremely relaxing and enjoyable. Then, because I’ve just started taking a class in Illustrator, I fiddled around with grids in Illustrator and started making a real-live chart. I like the way it looks on screen, but I’ll have to get supplies and actually stitch it up to see if I like it as cross-stitch. That’ll probably take a long time, but I’m eager to get started.
If I like how it turns out, I’m totally going to make a bunch of designs with my characters!
By the way, since I’m getting into this new medium right at the very time that we’re opening an embroidery show at gallery hanahou, I have no illusions about the skill level I’m at with needle and thread. But that’s OK, I’ll just be happy if I can make simple cute things that make me smile.
Let’s see who’s making an appearance today!
discosmurf’s groundhog Top Hat seems proud to be king of his mound of dirt.
His mound seems a little less thrilled by it all.
beforesunrise’s Murray (named after Bill, of course), also doesn’t seem to be afraid of a thing this morning.
He even invited a few friends over!
teaYarnly’s Godfrey forgot what day it was!
Huuuh?
But it’s not all springlike predictions from our groundhogs this year.
Godfrey the First at chez Mochimochi spent a few quiet minutes contemplating his shadow…
And giolou’s little guy woke up to quite a frightening sight!
A big thank-you to discosmurf, beforesunrise, and teaYarnly for testing the pattern. I hope we see lots more Godfreys pop up year round!