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Just because it can be done

Just because it can be done

… doesn’t mean I should actually attempt it. Then again, I won’t know if it’s a bad idea until I try. On the other hand, many of my bad ideas started as good ideas that eventually went horribly wrong because I seem to have little (if any) awareness of my actual limitations. So far, things [...]

Punch needle project

Punch needle project

I’ve been listlessly wracking my brains for a project so I decided to grab the igolochkoy (a word that drives spell checkers mad) needle and some embroidery thread. The design is a chinese woodcut of a dragon (I love wikipedia image searches) that I traced to some linen using a Sulky Iron-on transfer pen.