Wow – that was tedious! (But kind of interesting, too.)

Folksy (that’s the Etsy of the UK) has very recently undergone something of a makeover.  Now I’ve got over the initial surprise at the change in appearance, I think I’m decided it’s quite a clean and funky new look.  What’s tedious about that? Nothing!  The tedious part is that alongside the makeover there have been [...]

Makeovers all round

As you may have already noticed I decided to go for another blog re-design to match the new Etsy header.  I liked the green of the old blog but I love that I could totally kraftify the background of this one – I feel much more at home here!  Still a few minor tweaks needed [...]

Long overdue…

Still away from home but happily with internet access, I took advantage of some ‘leisure’ time this morning to make some long overdue revisions to the TangleStore (hey, why did I never think of that portmanteau before?!) header.  The old tapestry header was relevant when the store first opened but has become less & less [...]

A quiet week?

Despite a lack of blogging activity here which may suggest the contrary, I have been busy busy busy all week!  Well, I took a week’s holiday from ‘real’ work – caught up with a friend, saw my mum & dad (my dad has been in China for the last 6 months or so, so that [...]

Business cards again

Back in the day, my business cards had an embroidery chart on the reverse.  Last year, they converted into D.I.Y. weaving looms.  Earlier this year they were made from paper & re-purposed scrap card.  Guess what?  I’ve had a change of heart – again!  Well, each incarnation of my business card has coincided with a [...]

Zentangling

Corey is away for the weekend, so I am luxuriating in having a couple of decadent evenings to myself.  What am I up to?  Well, I’m about to make myself a cheese & pickle sandwich, and am otherwise having an evening off from ‘work’ and just browsing online.  That’s very rare!  And after I’ve made [...]

The difference between art and craft

This is something I’ve been thinking about, on and off, lately, as the subject seems to keep cropping up in various contexts.  It’s not something that troubles me greatly: we do what we do, and it’s still the same, whatever label anybody later attaches to it.  But for the sake of clarity in my own [...]

Bobbin Along – another freeform bargello experiment

It’s another WIP, as (once more!) I have run out of the thread I need to complete the border…  I am also still at the mercy of a temperamental printer/scanner but I’m trying to work around it! This design posed some interesting challenges for me, although I had learned from ‘Marble Waves’.  I was careful to stretch the bobbin ‘thread’ to fill the first triangular quadrant of the design, so [...]

Freeform bargello – Marble Wave update

A friend has very kindly scanned this new version of Marble Wave for me – the main differences being a softer colourway (with greater differentiation between the lightest 2 colours) and a tiered border.  As you can see, this is still WIP, as I have run out of the purple thread, and must wait for [...]

An intro to TangleCrafts & me

A predominantly self-taught stitcher, I have recently decided to venture out into the world to market my own counted thread designs. I’ve been designing for 6 years, & have more patterns & ideas than time in which to stitch them (or in some cases, chart them).  Luckily, I have managed to build a little team [...]