What We're Making

I started this wall hanging in January, worked on it regularly all year, and was happy to finish it in time to display this Christmas. I didn't keep track of the time spent, but I'd estimate at least 120 hours.

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Philliefan33 said:
I started this wall hanging in January, worked on it regularly all year, and was happy to finish it in time to display this Christmas. I didn't keep track of the time spent, but I'd estimate at least 120 hours.
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That looks great !!! What is the size ?
 
Exit 2024 said:
That looks great !!! What is the size ?
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It's 55" x 66". This is the first project I've done with such detailed stitching and in retrospect I should have started with a smaller item. My technique improved over the course of the project and I can see the mistakes I made in the early stages, but hopefully they are not glaringly obvious to the casual observer. (If anyone who visits me is rude enough to mention the mistakes, they can get out!)
 
Philliefan33 said:
It's 55" x 66". This is the first project I've done with such detailed stitching and in retrospect I should have started with a smaller item. My technique improved over the course of the project and I can see the mistakes I made in the early stages, but hopefully they are not glaringly obvious to the casual observer. (If anyone who visits me is rude enough to mention the mistakes, they can get out!)
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This made me :LOL:. Just got home from work where we had a lot of meetings today. The last meeting, guess President was getting tired, someone made a sarcastic comment about some mistakes (just little things) in the presentation and they were told to "get out of this room!". Never saw our Prez so mad.
Almost forgot to compliment you on the wallhanging, really nice work.
 
First off I would like to say there is some very talented people here! Here some carving I do they are all hand carved NO electric tools used just old fashion hand tools. They are about 28 inches high and are cottonwood logs. I just start and the carving just takes me to the end. I don't look at pictures just an idea of what I want to do. I can't turn picture sorry for that.

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street,

Your carvings are fabulous! I want one - send a PM to tell me where you live and the next time I'm in your area I want to stop by and buy one!

There are so many interesting hobbies people on this forum are doing on regular basis - I'm amazed time and time again.
 

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nvestysly >>> thanks for turning the picture for me. Thank you also for the kind words.
 
street said:
First off I would like to say there is some very talented people here! Here some carving I do they are all hand carved NO electric tools used just old fashion hand tools.
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Beautiful carvings, wish I was closer to see them in person!

I've been busy making a few things but haven't taken pictures:confused:

For the last few years, I've been working with a group that restored an old building in our downtown (Romney, WV) which was a farmer's cooperative- feed/seed/hardware, etc. Closed in 2009 but we've completely renovated the front section and opened as an Artist's Cooperative two weeks ago in time for holiday sales. So many of the items in this thread would be wonderful to offer for sale there! We'll finish a classroom in the spring and start holding artist and craft classes there as well.

Have about 30 artists represented there and more joining as we move along. Been an interesting experience and very enjoyable to finally see it open and sales are good so far. We've been told that for a store like this, we may do more than 60% of our sales in the last quarter of the year, will see!

I only have a couple of items in the co-op as our focus is on hand made items and lately, my work has been on the computer controlled router so a bit too modern- everyone does seem willing to let me do some signs and other items that are needed using my modern methods, lol. I did turn 5 ink pens the other day so I could have something on display.

Thanks to all who post in this thread, I've really enjoyed watching the creativity roll in!
 
splitwdw said:
This made me :LOL:. Just got home from work where we had a lot of meetings today. The last meeting, guess President was getting tired, someone made a sarcastic comment about some mistakes (just little things) in the presentation and they were told to "get out of this room!". Never saw our Prez so mad.
Almost forgot to compliment you on the wallhanging, really nice work.
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Brings back really bad memories in my past of VP of sales beating down middle mangers not on track to make quarterly quotas-in front of a group of 20 or so others. My first mgmt. meeting, I observed two mgr.s taking hits of Maalox before the meeting started. Bad omen.

That was late 80's, and I would like to think things have changed. But recent news of dishonest Wells Fargo dealings lead me to believe that the same upper management style still exists!
 
splitwdw said:
This made me :LOL:. Just got home from work where we had a lot of meetings today. The last meeting, guess President was getting tired, someone made a sarcastic comment about some mistakes (just little things) in the presentation and they were told to "get out of this room!". Never saw our Prez so mad.
Almost forgot to compliment you on the wallhanging, really nice work.
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I recall the COO presenting in front of the IT staff(we were an IT provider) when someone asked a "when did you stop beating your wife" type questions about wages. COO lost it, told us we were welcome to leave right then. He used a fine selection of East Coast motivation to intimidate the staff. Funny thing about 6 months later while out on his morning run he had a heart attack and died.

Awesome carvings.
 
MRG said:
Funny thing about 6 months later while out on his morning run he had a heart attack and died.

Awesome carvings.
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Totally off topic...

Back in the day I worked in a large national consulting practice run by one of these hard chargers. One morning news came in that he died while out jogging before work. The on client site project team stood down till noon, then we were back at it 1 PM. That was a real eye opener for me....
 
The wife and I have inexplicably become interested in crochet and macrame. I'm currently working on a replacement watch band out of hemp cord, and the wife has been busy crocheting coffee mug cozies and cup sleeves, coasters, and a hot pad sort of thing. At least it keeps the mind off of politics. :)
 
dixonge said:
The wife and I have inexplicably become interested in crochet and macrame. I'm currently working on a replacement watch band out of hemp cord, and the wife has been busy crocheting coffee mug cozies and cup sleeves, coasters, and a hot pad sort of thing. At least it keeps the mind off of politics. :)
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Does this go along with your avatar? :)
 
superdave said:
run by one of these hard chargers. One morning news came in that he died while out jogging before work....
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We had a people-oriented motivational manager replaced with such a sweetheart. We called him Stevie Stonebreaker. Fatal Coronary at 52 much later. We got together for a minor "Celebration of Death"!
 
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Hemp cord. You're thinking of something else. Plus Heisenberg never dabbled in that cheap stuff...
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Chemistry vs. Botany.
 
Maybe we can get back on track for posting about items we've made, thanks1
 
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