Show of hands

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.
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another anne, add ingers to reply

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

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?
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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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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

anne wrote:

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.




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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

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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

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.

On 7/6/08 7:44 AM, in article ,
"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.


I photograph 80% of my stuff. I really want to keep a journal but haven't
found a format that works for me. I will make notes on a completed chart
that I might want to stitch again or has a motif or section that might come
in handy some day.

I "sign" most of my work with small back stitch initials and the date. They
are about 2 threads by 2 threads.


Cheryl

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