New Start 6-13-26

Things have been weird and wild for awhile. My husband and I closed our brick and mortar store late last fall and the helpers that we had right at the last rearranged everything so that we can’t find much, if any of the stuff that we’re looking for.

That means that the current Mab’s Creations stock is limited to what I saved out of current projects! That means that pattern cards and pamphlets are not available at the moment, but I keep thinking that we’re going to find them tomorrow….

I’m finally starting on two projects that have been on a back burner for awhile. It’s the bookmark WDW pamphlet and the basket liner project that may or may not turn into a WDW.

We’re also doing our local farmer’s and artisan’s market each Wednesday. Most of the new and available pieces may be found here: https://wp.me/P3tj51-MV although as stuff sells and I finish more projects the things that may be found on the pages will change.

Anja set up at the market 6/3/26

I’m putting together current pages of stock, as I can.

Happy Stitching!

News 12-2-24

It’s been a tough year, but things are resolving, finally. I have my program back that I use to create a lot of the content and drawings for my products…. finally…. it’s been non-functional for months and only partly usuable for a year, so…… hopefully…. new stuff will start coming out, soon!

In the meantime Kim Salazar/Ianthe D’Avignon has the 2nd volume of the New Carolingian Modelbuch out! I got my copy right away and I’ve been working out of it all this past year!

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Carolingian-Modelbook-Collection-Needleworkers/dp/0997507659/ref=sr_1_1

Happy Stitching!

News and some interesting drawings – 4-15-24

I’ve been busily stitching away over the last while, although I’m mostly creating patterns for items, not blackwork. I still don’t have my program for doing the drawings, so all of that is on hold.

I have a couple of new students and researching some patterns for them to use I ran across a site that has a number of patterns “exploded” so that they’re easier to see… like this one.

The Poster’s name is Yra3raza. The web address for the first pattern is here: https://yra3raza.gallery.ru/watch?ph=K0z-dxkkh#feature=topscroll  and the pages continue to #85 or so.

Happy Stitching!

Eclipse Day 4-8-24

Kim Salazar has done it again! How cool! Since I can’t share Facebook posts properly over here, I’m quoting her. Please visit “String or Nothing”, her blog! https://string-or-nothing.com/

Kim Salazar – For today!

Adapted from one of the motifs on the Crowdsourced Fill project, which is posted in its entirety on String on the Embroidery Patterns tab.

Embroidery Patterns

News 2-17-24

It’s been a long dry spell for creating products. Mostly it’s a combination of not enough time on the computer, the program I use most frequently deciding to not work (going to have to buy the new version….) and a bit of frazzle thrown in for good measure!

I’ve gotten a few more updates done on this site. Not in product but picture content.

We’re going to do the Toledo Summer Festival/Glastonbury/Greenwood Faire again this year.

…and I finally picked up my current sampler and got back to work on it, finishing patterns that I started, trying to work on some others and generally filling in.

Current pattern as of 2/14/24

mostly done, I need to finish off ends there’s that one small blank spot…..

Almost done with the current pattern to the left

This section still needs a lot of finishing.

Happy Stitching!

A new YouTube – 11-20-23

Lynne Fairchild has a number of YouTube videos out. Her most recent one is this.

Also the Unstitched Coif exhibition is getting underway!

Happy Stitching!

News September 2023

When my programs expired (which I didn’t know could happen) last month I was right in the middle of the final edit on a new version of Pattern Card Set #2, the Bookmarks pamphlet of the Well-Dressed Workbasket series, a Yule-tide Jumble Page and some other things…. now I’m stopped until I can scrape up the $400 or so dollars for the newest program.

Pincushion and Emery

I’ve been working on photos for the Box and Basket Liners WDW, and more prototypes, plus a few for the next Pincushions series. It may be that kits will actually come out first, since those take a program that I can still access. My most current project is a liner for a lovely box about 10×15 inches so that I can use it as a project box at events. The photo is a pincushion and emery that will go with the box, one of many small accessories that I’m planning to use. The wooden egg cup was sanded and finished with wood butter. The pincushion is filled with my standard blend (btw, we don’t have any for sale until October! We need more cedar and it has to dry….) of cedar, sawdust and (washed) sand. It has a scrap linen construction fabric covered with calico and a matching emery attched with a piece of elastic so it can be used separately.

There’s a lovely holbein-style blackwork video out with a pattern from the Jane Bostocke Sampler. Lynne Fairchild has a whole series of youtube videos that are quite good. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YREAFK13ziM

Happy Stitching!

Summertime and the living is… – 7-3-23

…Difficult! Days are long at the shop, and there’s little time for food and sleep much less embroidery! I’ve been mostly finishing projects, like the bookmarks, earrings, etc. I’m still working on that multi-colored sampler, too, but I keep having the sampler one place and the things I’m copying in another! 🙂

I had my blackwork at a Ren Faire in Toledo, OR, over June 24 & 25. That was a fun event, even if it was a bit hard on my back. Pretty much I got to hang out with some friends and a student or so, ate some interesting Faire food and talked endlessly about my embroidery, toys and the games display that we brought, plus things like the Galileo thermomer, the balance and some other bits and pieces.

The blackwork display

I just ran across a site with some interesting designs. – http://medievalneedle.com/embroidery/embroid.htm

I’m hoping to get the bookmark pamphlet out in the fall. I don’t know yet whethere there will be a Christmas Kit this year, or just a jumble page, but I’m also hoping to re-print Card Set 2.

Happy Stitching!

Summer-time

Kim Salazar has just posted and updated version of her Ensamplario Atlantio! – https://string-or-nothing.com/2023/06/13/ensamplario-atlantio-updated

In other news I’m going to be at the Glastonbury/Greenwood Fair June 24 & 25, displaying my blackwork!

Happy Stitching!

String or Nothing Link

This lady Kim Salazar/ is one of the most knowledgable folks about blackwork/holbeinwork/strapwork that I’ve ever seen. She just made a post to collect her resource things in one place.

BLACKWORK/STRAPWORK RESOURCES HERE ON STRING

Nothing much going at Mab’s Creations, I’m afraid. My arthritis is giving me heck, so I’ve only done a small zipper pull or two in the last two months! …and about 40 stitches into the current sampler. <sigh> We’re waiting for the usual summer cash flow to start, still, and at that point I might be able to set up some new/reprinted card sets… I hope. It’s been very tight all winter!

Happy Stitching!