Category: musings
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I Moved (Long Time no Blog)
Author’s note: I wrote the majority of this post in March. Suffice it to say things have progressed since then, but I didn’t want to scrap everything I had already written. In the time since I wrote this, I finished painting my living room and dining room, painted the craft room, assembled IKEA furniture solo,…
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Aintab Embroidery in Review
On May 11th, I finished my first Aintab embroidery piece. I worked on this project nearly daily for almost exactly six months, and had spent much longer than that planning and picking up the skills I would need to execute it successfully. To say this has been a long time coming is a massive understatement.…
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Things Go Wrong
When I talk about lace with people who aren’t crafters, one of the most common comments I get is that it looks difficult and that I must be talented. I understand this is supposed to be a compliment, but I fundamentally disagree with the premise on both fronts. First, Armenian needlelace is quite forgiving as…
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Musings on Netmaking
I recently joined the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild, just in time to attend the fall Lace Day. The vast majority of guild members make bobbin lace, but there is a small and growing contingency of needle lace makers in the group. The Lace Day consisted of a keynote lecture about the history and development of…
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Suddenly I have a Dozen WIPs
I have a moratorium on starting new projects for (probably) the rest of the year after realizing that I have accumulated a few too many WIPs in the past few months. This post is mostly for me to look back on and remember that I have plenty of things to work on when I feel…
Digin Haiganoush 