Comments on: Punk Lives!

By: kakariki

kakariki — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:46:29 +0000

ooh do! And send us pics

Cool story about your Dad. Hope you’ve still got his stitching.

xox

By: Phosfate

Phosfate — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:12:16 +0000

I love this so much! I may dig out some of the unloved needlework in the basement and…improve on it.

Another possible origin story for the birds: When I was 17, my Dad had a stroke. One of the things he did to improve his manual dexterity was to learn to needlepoint. (It was the 70s, so you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a needlepoint kit. Not that we swung a lot of dead cats, but if you were into it, the option was there.) He could match the colors perfectly well, but the poor man simply could not grasp the concept of working all the stitches in the same direction. I was never sure if this was a result of the stroke, or because he’d never been very handy. As a child I once saw him try to drive nails. He knocked their heads clean off, and bent the bodies in half.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:38:16 +0000

I’m half amused and half saddened by this post! I am still giggling over what you’ve done in ’666′ (and grinning at your comments about that colour) to the poor little tapestry. The sad part to me is, that this was probably done by a child learning to stitch, not by a person who didn’t care how bad it was. Sure it was chucked out because it is so poorly stitched, but on the other hand, if it was some kid’s first effort, Mum should have kept it as a childhood memento. My MIL kept her son’s first painting done when he was five. All of about 3 inches long, she put it in a frame, and I now have it – 60 years later!
OK you’re probably thinking ‘duh…NERD’ – well, that’s probably just the generation gap! But I still think the ‘Punk Lives’ addition is clever, lol!

By: kakariki

kakariki — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:11:53 +0000

Thanks Heather!

It ended up installed amongst the hustle and bustle and fantastic street art of Degraves Lane. There’s some pics here http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2009/10/03/some-interventions-and-an-opening/

By: Heather - Dollar Store Crafts

Heather - Dollar Store Crafts — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:43:55 +0000

I love the piece & the concept! What did you end up doing with it?

(heather from craftfail)
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By: Lek

Lek — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:10:54 +0000

I have no idea when we’ll be getting the bathroom finished–I have the pornstitch and the resol’nare on my cross stitch pile to finish before I can get to finishing the bloodstitch. right now I just have some shots of what we’ve done so far on my flickr account.

By: Lil²

Lil² — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:37:42 +0000

Really I dig that too ! You've made this work really noticeable, by underlying its imperfections, you've made it so much more interesting. Well done ! .-= Lil²´s last blog ..Quand les lobbys écrasent les artisans =-.

By: kakariki

kakariki — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:34:36 +0000

There must be a secret wee club of us 666 fans out there. Wonder if it’s possible to find the ironic genius that assigned the number.

Would LOVE to see pics of your bathroom when you get it finished please!!

By: Lek

Lek — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:10:18 +0000

I LOVE DMC666. We’re using it to do cross-stitched blood for our horror-movie themed bathroom.

Weird thing about it though, it’s the only thread I’ve ever had that never EVER can be scanned by the barcode reader. I’ve had all sorts of clerks try, and they just don’t scan–they have to enter the barcode by hand. And I buy a lot of 666.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:53:04 +0000

Freak I looooooove that!!!
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