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How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full
name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? I'll go first -- I usually don't sign my work, mostly because I haven't hit on a way to attractively and quickly do small letters. For the grandbaby stitcheries, I made labels for the backs. I don't keep a stitching journal. However, I have several subject specific notebooks that contain cardboard backed doodle cloths that illustrate my sometimes feeble attempts. They serve as reminders that I tried something and maybe shouldn't do it again or maybe time has passed and I've learned more and should try again. I also photograph most of projects. -- another anne, add ingers to reply |
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anne wrote:
How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? I put my intitials and a date in the bottom right corner of the work istself. I then make a label for the back of the frame with my name, the date, the designer, and for whom I stitched it. Elizabeth -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~living well is the best revenge~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. --Adrienne Rich *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* |
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On Jul 6, 7:44 am, anne wrote:
How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? I'll go first -- I usually don't sign my work, mostly because I haven't hit on a way to attractively and quickly do small letters. For the grandbaby stitcheries, I made labels for the backs. I don't keep a stitching journal. However, I have several subject specific notebooks that contain cardboard backed doodle cloths that illustrate my sometimes feeble attempts. They serve as reminders that I tried something and maybe shouldn't do it again or maybe time has passed and I've learned more and should try again. I also photograph most of projects. -- another anne, add ingers to reply I nearly always backstitch my initials and the date of the finish onto my work, usually somewhere at the bottom. The exceptions are - I didn't do this on a reproduction sampler. The information is on the back of the framing. And small pieces don't always get the initial treatment if I think it would detract from the piece by being distracting. I've kept a stitching journal for 12 years, though I don't update as frequently as I did. I note when I start a new piece, what it is, what changes I've made in fabric or threads. I try to write about current projects or classes taken. And I always note a finish. Some of this info has migrated onto my needlework blog, but I don't mind duplication. Because I frequently change things about a piece, it's nice to have a handy reference when someone asks what I used. Donna in Virginia |
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How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? ...snipped.... I sign and date almost everything I do if it is large enough. One of the things in my rotation is a plastic canvas cover for kleenex. I usually won't sign something like that unless it is a gift. I don't keep a stitching journal, never have and can't imagine starting doing so now. When I "sign" my work, I use only my initials and the date is 7-6-08. I always hide this stuff somewhere in the design so that it is not obviously visible. It's there is you look but a cursory look at the piece won't show it. Of course, the exception to this is stuff that has an obvious place for it. The sampler I did for Janet for Christmas last year had two houses with our initials above each one. Then after the letters and numbers, it had the date. I try to remember to take photos of the finished pieces now instead of having a journal. I do keep all of the charts, directions and *maybe* thread samples for stuff I have finished in case I ever need it. CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary |
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"Tia Mary" wrote in message ... anne wrote: How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? ...snipped.... I sign and date almost everything I do if it is large enough. One of the things in my rotation is a plastic canvas cover for kleenex. I usually won't sign something like that unless it is a gift. I don't keep a stitching journal, never have and can't imagine starting doing so now. When I "sign" my work, I use only my initials and the date is 7-6-08. I always hide this stuff somewhere in the design so that it is not obviously visible. It's there is you look but a cursory look at the piece won't show it. Of course, the exception to this is stuff that has an obvious place for it. The sampler I did for Janet for Christmas last year had two houses with our initials above each one. Then after the letters and numbers, it had the date. I try to remember to take photos of the finished pieces now instead of having a journal. I do keep all of the charts, directions and *maybe* thread samples for stuff I have finished in case I ever need it. CiaoMeow ^;;^ PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary I try to put small initials in a discreet place. Sometimes they are integrated into the design and sometimes they appear in the corner and once it was smack in the middle of the bottom. I should tell you that was because I got a dot of chocolate on the fabric and couldn't get it out so I covered it that way. I don't recommend that as a way to decide where to sign your piece. Lucille |
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How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? What am I stitching? On an ornament, not unless it's a swap. On most pieces, KMC 2008. On heirloom-quality pieces, I'll stitch in the margin of the fabric, so it's a surprise when someone finally decides to re-frame it "stitched by my full name for her cousin her full name in honor of her 16th birthday Month/date/year". Do you keep a stitching journal? I keep photos. And, of course, my sig line here changes, so I can quickly google up a completion date. -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 6/28/08 - Dimensions "Wolf" WIP: Christmas Music Bellpull, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!! Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/ |
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On Jul 6, 4:44*am, anne wrote:
How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? I'll go first -- I usually don't sign my work, mostly because I haven't hit on a way to attractively and quickly do small letters. For the grandbaby stitcheries, I *made labels for the backs. I don't keep a stitching journal. However, I have several subject specific notebooks that contain cardboard backed doodle cloths that illustrate my sometimes feeble attempts. They serve as reminders that I tried something and maybe shouldn't do it again or maybe time has passed and I've learned more and should try again. I also photograph most of projects. -- another anne, add ingers to reply No stitching journal but I sign, date and try to get a picture of everything I make. If it is for someone in the family, I just put "Liz" and "2008". If it's for someone else, I will put "Liz H" and the year. I never bother putting the month. Where it goes depends on the design - sometimes under where the mat board or frame will go and sometimes hidden in a corner or in subtle shades but out where it can be seen. One reason I asked DH for a "regular" old fashioned camera a few years ago was so that I can have an actual photograph to put in a binder of needlework photos. It's nice to have them on the computer so I can send pictures via email or look at the quickly but I REALLY like to have a regular photograph in the book also. Liz from Humbug |
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On Jul 6, 12:44*pm, anne wrote:
How many of you sign and date your work? If yes, do you use your full name, initials, or ? Do you keep a stitching journal? I use a squiggle in backstitch for S, in which the tail of the S loops over the top and comes to the right-hand side and finishes in a tiny French knot. I only use it for largish ornamental pieces that I give away, and I certainly don't use a signature on "useful" articles, even if I give them as presents. I don't have a stitching journal as such, but usually have a few notes for new projects. For instance, I made a few purificators and lavabos for the local church, and I have these details down as I shall be doing them again when these wear out. I photograph my work if I remember to do it. I checked my "embroidery" folder just now to see what I had in it, and it seems that I was more diligent in photographing stuff when I was a beginner, as there are plenty from 2005, fewer from 2006, one or two from last year and hardly none from the last six months! So, there are countless projects of which I have no record, and when I come across one unexpectedly I'm usually very surprised! - Shanti. |
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On Jul 6, 1:43 pm, Liz from Humbug wrote:
I never bother putting the month. Where it goes depends on the design - ... hidden in a corner or in subtle shades but out where it can be seen. Yeah, what she said. And just my initials. AFAIR, I've signed everything I've ever stitched. Joan |
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