New needlepoints

What's getting me through hard times? Needlepoint and running.

Sad days

This is what I've been making.

Smartass needlepoint

Beware! So this was my first time Bargello style stitching. The entire piece is my own design. Here are the before and after. It's my new shop policy. 

 

Five by five

My latest self designed needlepoint. Because I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Recent Needlepoints

Instead of the commission I should be working, instead of the recent draft of my story, instead of making my bed... I've been needlepointing. 

The purple piece is a canvas I picked up from my favorite favorite shop Golden Gate Needlepoint on Sacramento Street at Presidio. Dangerously close to my own shop. Talking isn't doing, good words to live by.

The pink gun I traced onto blank canvas and added the cursive L'oreal slogan. Je le vaux bien! I find this funny because instead of translating to "because I'm worth it" it really more accurately translates to "because I deserve it." Ha! Because I fucking deserve it!!! Plus a gun. 

This is beginners's art. Gun + words = profound meaning. So deep, man. Or it's just aesthetics. I admit I did feel weird stitching a gun, especially since I was working on it at my shop and customers kept asking to look at it. I promise I won't go postal! Trust me, stitched guns are the only guns that I support. But I'm out of thread and must wait to finish the piece. Now that is probably something that I deserve. 

Finished!

The pillow for your sofa that matches the painting that goes with your sofa

And here it is hanging at SOMArts

Completed!

 Only 11 months of my life! Will make a great tapestry once the pros block it for me.

Still hanging...

I made these 2 years ago now.