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Tied my first fly in a couple of months. That's a Gamakatsu S10-B in size 8. I really like this hook, but I struggle with the size 8 for some reason. Think I did it justice here, though. It's has got a natural "black" yarn body with a gold colored rib. The wing is deer hair. Tied it in hand (without a vise) using YLI 100 weight silk thread.

I caught one crappie on this fly and then promptly lost it in a tree. C'est la vie.

#flyfishing #flytying #fishing #deerhair #silkthread #wool #yarn #tenkara #crappie #hook

Tied my first fly in a couple of months. That's a Gamakatsu S10-B in size 8. I really like this hook, but I struggle with the size 8 for some reason. Think I did it justice here, though. It's has got a natural "black" yarn body with a gold colored rib. The wing is deer hair. Tied it in hand (without a vise) using YLI 100 weight silk thread.

I caught one crappie on this fly and then promptly lost it in a tree. C'est la vie.

#flyfishing #flytying #fishing #deerhair #silkthread #wool #yarn #tenkara #crappie #hook

Tied my first fly in a couple of months. That's a Gamakatsu S10-B in size 8. I really like this hook, but I struggle with the size 8 for some reason. Think I did it justice here, though. It's has got a natural "black" yarn body with a gold colored rib. The wing is deer hair. Tied it in hand (without a vise) using YLI 100 weight silk thread.

I caught one crappie on this fly and then promptly lost it in a tree. C'est la vie.

#flyfishing #flytying #fishing #deerhair #silkthread #wool #yarn #tenkara #crappie #hook

Tied my first fly in a couple of months. That's a Gamakatsu S10-B in size 8. I really like this hook, but I struggle with the size 8 for some reason. Think I did it justice here, though. It's has got a natural "black" yarn body with a gold colored rib. The wing is deer hair. Tied it in hand (without a vise) using YLI 100 weight silk thread.

I caught one crappie on this fly and then promptly lost it in a tree. C'est la vie.

#flyfishing #flytying #fishing #deerhair #silkthread #wool #yarn #tenkara #crappie #hook

Here is the quilt I just finished, titled 'Because She Changes', inspired by the monumental public sculpture 'She Changes', by Janet Echelman, in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Selvedge denim both sides
Vintage silk embroidery threads
Cotton sashiko threads
Red linen border

2m x 1.5m

Every stitch hand-sewn.

#sashiko
#SashikoQuilt
#silkThread
#quilt
#quilting
#QuiltingArt
#hitomezashi
#littleStabs
#Anémona
#JanetEchelman
#matosinhos
#porto
#PortoPortugal
#SheChanges
#embroidery
#BecauseSheChanges

Here's the whole thing. It's 2 m by 1.5 m.

It's based on where we live, in Matosinhos, Porto.

The main theme is the massive public sculpture 'She Changes' by Janet Echelman. Other design aspects are waves, sky, night, clouds, moon, mist.

At the moment I'm calling it 'Because She Changes'.

#sashiko #SashikoQuilt #silkThread #quilt #quilting #QuiltingArt #hitomezashi #littleStabs #Anémona #JanetEchelman #matosinhos #porto #PortoPortugal

I've been quiet but busily working on this sahiko quilt.

I'm yet to get good images, but here's where I am...

Yesterday and today I designed the final part, an abstracted mist pattern. We get a LOT of mist here.

I stitched it in vintage embroidery silk.

And with that, the front piece is DONE!

Sashiko means little stabs, and after all that stitching, my fingers know why.

#sashiko #SashikoQuilt #silkThread #quilt #quilting #QuiltingArt #hitomezashi #littleStabs

Just a quick update on this quilting project.

I have finished all the major defining lines.

I ran out of the vintage deep blue thread, so had to improvise, and blended it into a soft purple-pink (top left) to represent a sunrise opposing the moon.

To come - #hitomezashi patterns in segments of each circle, detail to the waves (bottom left), make the moon waxing gibbous...

And sorry for the poorly stitched image! #PanoramaFail

#sashiko #SashikoQuilt #silkThread #quilt #quilting

Couldn't resist starting this quickly!

I have started with two vintage embroidery silk threads... and when they're gone that's it! I'm ...fairly... sure there will be enough to do the initial lines.

The waves (bottom left), circles (centre) and moon (upper right) will be with modern Yokota sashiko thread.

I'm also using Yokota needles.

My William Whitely scissors are looovely! A special treat when I made a previous 5m x 1.5m quilt.

#sashiko #SashikoQuilt #silkThread #quilt #quilting

I haven't tied flies in hand for a couple of months. I caught a juvenile spotted bass with one of these on the Ocmulgee River yesterday. It was the only fish that I caught, and I caught it before my first cast! The fly was drifting in the water while I was peeling line off of the reel.

The silk thread came from a lot of vintage silk on eBay.

#featherwing #flyfishing #flytying #fishing #spottedbass #ocmulgee #ocmulgeeriver #river #silk #silkthread #vintage