Welcome to my Stitchbook! I’m glad you’re here. This blog is like a lab notebook, but for my experiments with quilting, sewing, embroidery, and knitting. Sometimes I get something useful. Always I get data.
It’s not meant to be a tutorial site, though you may get some ideas on things to try or ways of doing something. I’ve been knitting for a long time but I’m really new to sewing and embroidery. Practice makes better, and that’s what’s happening here.
You’ll find three kinds of posts:
– field notes: works in progress, design decisions, observations from the middle of a project.
– studies: focused explorations of techniques, materials, ideas, etc.
– results: finished projects with evaluations of the process and project.
I’m interested in what works, what doesn’t, and what further research is needed. This is about process – which is probably what I’ll be repeating to myself while seam-ripping.
Joking aside, I used to be a scientist and now stay at home to care for my high-needs, high-contact, high-octane pre-schooler. Nothing about him is…replicable. To say he’s extraordinary is an understatement. Craft is where I slow down and recharge. Since you can’t take the lab out of the girl, I have to share my results and submit it for peer review.
If you like a good process story with over-thinking and evolution, you’re in the right place. I’ll try to be concise, but my dissertation went through several revisions.
Kit’s Stitchbook 