Sketchcrawl Once More

So it was sketchcrawl again, and I was there. Well, this is the group. I’m the second one from the right. The others had fun too, see our forum post here. We met at deursches Museum, which is all abour science and ingeneering.

Well, this was my stab at drawing a historical aircraft. I’m never good at things that are far away.

This is a Maggi bottle from the glass and ceramics department. Maggi is the German answer to theriaki sauce. Karin gave me a waterbrush she had found in a shop recently, this does make working with water soluble pencils easier and less messy.

Afret that we had lunch break, and I bought a glass quill from a glassmaker who was demonstrating his craft at the glass departement. I tried it out on the coke bottle next to the maggi bottle. The wine glass was mostly done using ink and the waterbrush. The brown thing is a wooden needle from the stone age.

After another coffee break, I tried my hand at the model of a primitive windmill. Same problem as with the aircraft, but it turned out better because the model was smaller.

We had a great day, should you wish to join us next time follow the sketchcrawl forum, the next dates are already up and we will post our plans there in due time.

What’s Going On

Since I’m back online I have been surfing a lot, and want to share a thing or two I found.

Shelley from mermaidspurse has posted a very wonderful tutorial on stitching pink carnations in needleweaving. Do check it out!

Meri has posted instructions on a surface stitch I’ve never seen before, it is somewhat similar to palestina stitch in appearance. I have jet to try it but it looks great.

Johnny Murder at donkeywolf is the guy who seems to have coined the term manbroidery, and his work is spectacular. He is sharing the blog with his partner Penny, she is, among other things, interested in spinning and working with her own yarn.

Ricard Saja blogs at historically inaccurate, naother “manbroiderer” who does surface embroidery over printed fabrics, and other fun and thoughtful things. (Warning! not work save)

To add a little bit of eye candy, here is a sneak peak on the oddity I’ve been working on on the commute last week. Yes, it’s a self-designed round-filet doily, but the design prooved unsuccessful (it won’t lie flat). No more on this, exept when I ever get round to fixing it. I’m prone to create such things when lovesick LOL (or just generally insane).

I also have new pets – lots of them. But that is a story for another day.

Another needleweaving finish

I actuallly managed to finish something! It was done using black crochet yarn and standard 6stranded cotton floss.

It was woven on the same cardboard loom as my last finished woven item. Sadly, it came out somewhat distorted, probably I should sting the frame once more and keep trying. As you can see, I’ve stayed with the desert sun theme. I guess now I’m ready to write the last installment of my weaving tutorial series.