<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744</id><updated>2022-08-16T23:58:50.593-04:00</updated><category term="craft"/><category term="colour"/><category term="pattern"/><category term="shop"/><category term="wool"/><category term="nostalgia"/><category term="life"/><category term="chile"/><category term="workshop"/><category term="design"/><category term="press"/><category term="print"/><category term="tutorial"/><category term="stockholm"/><category term="swedish"/><category term="felt"/><category term="chicago"/><category term="colourconfident"/><category term="dremelpartner"/><category term="palette"/><category term="japan"/><title type="text">Karen Barbé</title><subtitle type="html">Welcome to my textile journal – a collection of pieces of work, findings and inspiration.</subtitle><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/posts/default" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default?redirect=false" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><link href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" rel="hub"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false" rel="next" type="application/atom+xml"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15663284690523053433</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ivyjQWL4Fhg/Ss3ws11ZbYI/AAAAAAAAAcg/88ydU46Yz-8/S220/KarenBarbe.jpg" width="32"/></author><generator uri="http://www.blogger.com" version="7.00">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>331</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-8814175255692396183</id><published>2017-05-23T13:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2017-05-23T13:13:25.431-04:00</updated><title type="text">This blog has moved!</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/KarenBarbe-PinkPatches01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/KarenBarbe-PinkPatches01.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello! Just in case you missed my previous post, THIS BLOG HAS MOVED! &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog"&gt;Go to my new blog&lt;/a&gt; and find all the latest posts there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my new blog: &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog"&gt;http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are subscribed through a RSS reader please update to the new feed: &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/feed"&gt;http://www.karenbarbe.com/feed&lt;/a&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/8814175255692396183/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=8814175255692396183&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8814175255692396183" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8814175255692396183" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2017/05/this-blog-has-moved.html" rel="alternate" title="This blog has moved!" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-3641345947311472206</id><published>2017-04-21T16:43:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2017-04-21T16:43:56.780-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="workshop"/><title type="text">This blog has moved!</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KarenBarbe-FruitsSampler01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KarenBarbe-FruitsSampler01.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello! This blog has a new home. From now on I will be posting at &lt;a href="http://karenbarbe.com/blog"&gt;karenbarbe.com/blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are subscribed through a RSS reader please update to the new feed: &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/feed"&gt;http://www.karenbarbe.com/feed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't miss the &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/the-making-of-a-sampler/" target="_blank"&gt;story behind this fruit sampler&lt;/a&gt;. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching01.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching02.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching03.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching07.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching08.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching09.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so happy to finally announce that my first book &lt;i&gt;Colour Confident Stitching&lt;/i&gt; is ready! It's been loooong months of work so being able to actually touch it and browse through its pages feels like a dream come true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Colour Confident Stitching&lt;/i&gt; will help you create beautiful colour palettes for your projects. It does not matter how many times you feel you have failed in the past when choosing colours. The good news is that colour is a skill that can be learned. We all have the potential to shine just by learning the process and putting it into practice. Although the focus here is embroidery, the theory and process of creating colour palettes has many potential applications beyond stitching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get started with this book that brings together tips on how to discover and dissect a world of colour and harmony into palettes, grids and stitches to build your own interpretation. Through a simple and yet thorough understanding of color theory, I share concepts, tools and explanations to recognise, understand and combine colours that can be applied to any kind of creative project.&lt;i&gt; Colour Confident Stitching&lt;/i&gt; walks you through wonderful visual narratives that were conceived especially for this book. With my camera I take you on a trip around the streets, into the home and those small surprises that provide vivid examples of the core premise: anyone can train to capture and build their own colour palettes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Colour Confident Stitching : How to Create Beautiful Colour Palettes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Karen Barbé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paperback, 128 pages&lt;br /&gt;The Pimpernel Press&lt;br /&gt;London, United Kingdom&lt;br /&gt;Language: English&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The publication date is &lt;b&gt;March 2nd, 2017&lt;/b&gt; but you can pre-order it &lt;b&gt;now&lt;/b&gt; from these online shops: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colour-Confident-Stitching-Beautiful-Palettes/dp/1910258652" target="_blank"&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Colour-Confident-Stitching/9781910258651" target="_blank"&gt;Book Depository&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentStitching10.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Colour Confident Stitching&lt;/i&gt; is my first book and I have dedicated it to my niece Violeta because I love her so much and because I wanted to honour all the moments we've spent together colouring with pencils and recognising colours in things, flowers and animals. I'm not sure if she understands this now but this is my way of handing down to her my passion for colour and embroidery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/2202465332517920451/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=2202465332517920451&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="16 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2202465332517920451" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2202465332517920451" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2017/02/colour-confident-stitching-book-is-here.html" rel="alternate" title="Colour Confident Stitching book is here!" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-7718940631500520647</id><published>2016-12-22T22:24:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-12-22T22:24:18.668-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colourconfident"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="palette"/><title type="text">Colour Confident | Palette Nº3</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette03.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The days leading up to Christmas must be the time of the year I love the most: sunny and long days, warm evenings spent in a terrace drinking something, twinkling garlands everywhere. So I thought this palette should bring a bit of each thing: palette Nº3 tells about a relaxed celebration amongst the glitter of metallic threads, the freshness of a summer cocktail and the warmth of an evening shared with family and friends. &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you already seen the &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/how-to-christmas-stars.html" target="_blank"&gt;tutorial of these cardboard stars&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que el momento que más me gusta del año son los días previos a la Navidad: días soleados y largos, noches tibias en una terraza tomando algo, guirnaldas de lucecitas por todas partes. Así que pensé que esta paleta debiera tener un poco de todo eso: la paleta Nº3&amp;nbsp; cuenta sobre una celebración relajada en medio de los brillos de los hilos metálicos, la frescura de un cóctel refrescante de verano y la calidez de una tarde compartida con la familia y amigos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Ya viste el &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/how-to-christmas-stars.html" target="_blank"&gt;tutorial para hacer estas estrellitas de cartón&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COLOUR CONFIDENT &lt;b&gt;Palette Nº3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC E898&lt;/b&gt; – Dark Oak (metallic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 433&lt;/b&gt; – Brown Medium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 3776&lt;/b&gt; –&amp;nbsp;         Mahogany Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC E3821&lt;/b&gt; – Light Gold (metallic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 964&lt;/b&gt; – Sea Green Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 958&lt;/b&gt; – Sea Green Dark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC E3849&lt;/b&gt; – Aquamarine Blue (metallic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette03-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette03-01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/7718940631500520647/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=7718940631500520647&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7718940631500520647" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7718940631500520647" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/colour-confident-palette-n3.html" rel="alternate" title="Colour Confident | Palette Nº3" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-3960412480765208571</id><published>2016-12-14T20:53:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-12-22T17:27:01.584-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tutorial"/><title type="text">How-to | Christmas stars</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought of making these quick and easy stars to add a hint of light to any Christmas gift, card, ornament, wreath... anywhere really! As usual, I'm working with my favourite material (cereal box cardboard) but you can choose any other cardboard you like. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;HOW-TO&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;• Make copies of the stars template. &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Download the file here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;• Cut a rough circle around each star in the printed paper. Cut the circles slightly larger than the star shape.&lt;br /&gt;• Arrange and attach the circles on the cardboard using a small piece of double sided tape in the centre of the shape. Do this on the wrong side of your cardboard in order to avoid any damage on the cardboard once we remove the template (note that, as I used the brown side of the cereal box, I attached the circles on the right side).&lt;br /&gt;• Using scissors and/or an utility knife, cut the star following the lines of the template. The piece of double sided tape will keep the template in place while you cut out the shape. Once you've cut all sides, carefully remove the paper template.&lt;br /&gt;• Leaving a 8 cm/3" tail on the back, start winding a length of knitting cotton yarn (I like this one because it builds a nice structure on the star but you can try any kind of yarn or thread) around the inner angles of the star. You can see the how to wind the yarn &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOAmMXtjltC/" target="_blank"&gt;in this video&lt;/a&gt;. Once you've joined all the pairs of angles, tie a knot with both tails of yarn on the back side. Weave in the tails through the back using a large blunt needle; cut ends.&lt;br /&gt;• You are ready now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se me ocurrió hacer estas estrellas rápidas y fáciles para darle un toque de luz a cualquier regalo de Navidad, tarjeta, adorno, corona... ¡lo que sea! Como siempre, estoy usando mi material favorito (cartón de caja de cereal) pero puedes ocupar el cartón que más te guste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CÓMO SE HACE&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;• Imprime la plantilla con las estrellas. &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Stars.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;El archivo lo puedes descargar aquí&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;• Corta un círculo alrededor de cada estrella. Los círculos, que no tienen que ser perfectos, tienen que ser ligeramente más grandes que la estrella.&lt;br /&gt;• Distribuye y pega los círculos sobre el cartón usando un pedacito de cinta doble faz en el centro de la figura. Tienes que pegar los círculos por el lado del revés del cartón en caso que al despegar las plantillas la cinta dañara el cartón (fíjate que, como he usado el lado marrón de la caja de cereal, he pegado los círculos por el lado derecho).&lt;br /&gt;• Usando tijeras o una cuchilla fina para cartones, corta las estrellas siguiendo las líneas del papel. El pedacito de cinta adhesiva mantendrá la plantilla en su sitio mientras cortas las figuras. Una vez que hayas cortado todos los lados, despega el molde cuidadosamente.&lt;br /&gt;• Deja una cola de hilo de 8 cm por el revés y empieza a devanar el hilo de algodón (aquí ocupé un algodón para tejer porque le da una buena estructura a la estrella pero puedes probar cualquier otro hilo o lana) alrededor de todas los ángulos internos de la estrella. &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOAmMXtjltC/" target="_blank"&gt;En este video&lt;/a&gt; puedes ver cómo se hace. Una vez que hayas unido todos los pares de ángulos, haz un nudo por el revés con ambas colas de hilo. Enhebra estas colas en una aguja grande sin punta y pásala entremedio de los hilos del revés; corta las puntas.&lt;br /&gt;• ¡Y estamos listos!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/3960412480765208571/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=3960412480765208571&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="6 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/3960412480765208571" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/3960412480765208571" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/how-to-christmas-stars.html" rel="alternate" title="How-to | Christmas stars" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-6785045918094972463</id><published>2016-12-12T11:20:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-12-12T11:20:22.797-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colourconfident"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="palette"/><title type="text">Colour Confident | Palette Nº2</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette02-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette02-01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The palette Nº2 is the colour story of a serene spring afternoon making tea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year I did the embroidered piece shown below (showing the wrong side) while I was at the &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2015/08/the-royal-school-of-needlework.html" target="_blank"&gt;Royal School of Needlework&lt;/a&gt;. I took this same main image as a reference and embroidered it on canvas employing different stitches. One of the requirements for that piece is that it rendered the image in a very realist fashion, presenting faithfully the shapes and their colours, highlights and shadows (something that, I confess, I don't particularly enjoy from an aesthetic point of view). And well, to that end you had to use lots of colours and materials; in fact, the finished piece included cotton floss, wool yarn and metallic threads. However, the palette Nº2—by means of these eight shades (two blues, one yellow, two pinks and three beige/brown)—is focused more on expressing the fresh glow of that spring afternoon rather than portraying realistically the scene. The emphasis is placed on the pink tones but you can always adapt the palette to your own taste by using the blue or beige/brown shades as the main colour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La paleta Nº2 es la historia de color de una tarde tranquila de primavera preparando té.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La pieza bordada que aparece abajo (mostrando el revés) la realicé el año pasado mientras estuve en el &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2015/08/the-royal-school-of-needlework.html" target="_blank"&gt;Royal School of Needlework&lt;/a&gt;. Tomé esta misma imagen principal como referencia y la bordé con diversos puntos sobre esterilla (cañamazo). El requerimiento para esa pieza es que fuera bastante realista en el sentido de representar fielmente las formas con sus colores, brillos y sombras (algo que, confieso, no me acomoda mucho desde un punto de vista estético). Y bueno, para lograr el efecto había que utilizar gran cantidad de colores y materiales; de hecho, la pieza terminada incluye hilos de algodón, lana e hilos metalizados. Sin embargo, la paleta Nº2 se encarga, más que de retratar realísticamente la escena, de expresar la frescura de esa tarde primaveral a través de ocho colores (dos azules, un amarillo, dos rosados y tres beige/marrón). El énfasis está puesto en los tonos rosa pero puedes adaptar la paleta a tu gusto dejando los tonos de azul o marrón como color dominante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COLOUR CONFIDENT &lt;b&gt;Palette Nº2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 796&lt;/b&gt; – Royal Blue Dark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 797&lt;/b&gt; – Royal Blue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 973&lt;/b&gt; – Canary Bright&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 3733&lt;/b&gt; – Dusty Rose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 963&lt;/b&gt; – Dusty Rose Ultra very Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 842&lt;/b&gt; – Beige Brown Very Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 840&lt;/b&gt; – Beige Brown Medium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 838&lt;/b&gt; – Beige Brown Very Dark</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/6785045918094972463/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=6785045918094972463&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/6785045918094972463" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/6785045918094972463" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/colour-confident-palette-n-2.html" rel="alternate" title="Colour Confident | Palette Nº2" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-7182681585287187316</id><published>2016-12-06T09:41:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-12-12T09:44:07.633-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colourconfident"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="palette"/><title type="text">Colour Confident | Palette Nº1</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ColourConfidentPalette01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I'm kicking off a new series of posts on my blog: each week I will be sharing a beautiful colour palette for embroidering. The palettes will feature a colour selection built from the DMC embroidery floss colour chart so you will know straight away which shades to use in your project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This first palette draws its inspiration from the bold colours of bougainvillea bracts (the coloured leaves that surround the small flower of this plant) which range from electric fuchsia to a light warm beige when dry. What I like about this shift of colour is that it teaches us to see in a different way the colour stories that happen around us: as well as bracts change their colour conspicuously there are thousands of other elements that are capable of opening up their colour range in a more subtle manner through the highlights and shadows that dwell in their surface. Next time you have  in your hand a piece of fabric, a petal, a fruit (or anything really!), take a closer look and discover the quantity of colours that can be found in a portion that, seen from a distance, can appear just as a solid color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoy arranco con una nueva sección en el blog: cada semana publicaré una paleta de color para bordar. Las paletas estarán compuestas de una selección de colores provenientes de la carta de color de hilados DMC para que sepas de inmediato qué colores ocupar en tu proyecto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta primera paleta se inspira en los colores brillantes de las brácteas de las buganvilias (las brácteas son las hojas de color que rodea a la florcita de la planta) que van de un fucsia eléctrico a un suave beige cálido cuando están secas. Lo que me gusta de este cambio de color es que nos enseña a mirar de otra manera las historias de color que ocurren a nuestro alrededor: las brácteas cambian de color perceptiblemente pero así también hay miles de otros elementos que son capaces de abrir su rango de colores de un modo más sutil a través de los brillos y sombras que alojan en su superficie. La próxima vez que tengas en tus manos un trozo de tela, un pétalo, una fruta, lo que sea, mira de cerca y descubre la cantidad de colores que existen en una sección que, vista de lejos, solo aparece como un color plano. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;COLOUR CONFIDENT &lt;b&gt;Palette Nº1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 543&lt;/b&gt; – Beige Brown Ultra Very Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 3864&lt;/b&gt; – Mocha Beige Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 3608&lt;/b&gt; – Plum Very Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 3607&lt;/b&gt; – Plum Light&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 718&lt;/b&gt; – Plum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 312&lt;/b&gt; – Baby Blue Very Dark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DMC 803&lt;/b&gt; – Baby Blue Ultra Very Dark</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/7182681585287187316/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=7182681585287187316&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7182681585287187316" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7182681585287187316" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/12/colour-confident-palette-n1.html" rel="alternate" title="Colour Confident | Palette Nº1" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-4562407622490381802</id><published>2016-11-29T23:06:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-11-30T16:00:29.214-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dremelpartner"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tutorial"/><title type="text">How-to | Embroidered wooden bowls</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl03.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl04.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideredBowl05.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I couldn't resist these wooden bowls. And of course I couldn't resist making some stitches on them! These are &lt;a href="http://www.casaideas.cl/set-6-bowls-postre-madera-3211840000014/p" target="_blank"&gt;disposable mini bowls for dessert&lt;/a&gt; but you could well use them as small coasters or as a cute container (I use one for leaving threads ends when I embroider).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used a Dremel rotary tool with a 3/64" drill bit for perforating holes all over the bowl surface. Previously I traced the points with a mechanical pencil. You can always adapt the total number of points, shape or size according to the surface you will work on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stitch is super easy, fun and really quick to do (I promise!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Cut a thread of 40 cm/15.75" (I've used two strands of wool here). This length yielded one stitched “fan”. I used a new thread for each fan so there were no long thread jumps on the inside.&lt;br /&gt;· Thread a blunt needle and make a knot at the end of the thread. Go down in 2, leaving the knot on the outside or right side of the bowl (this will create a short tail that will lay underneath the following stitches).&lt;br /&gt;· Come up in 1 and go down in point a.&lt;br /&gt;· Come up in 2 (try not to go through the knot), go down in point a.&lt;br /&gt;· Come up in 3, go down in point a.&lt;br /&gt;· Repeat until you've covered all seven stitches.&lt;br /&gt;· To cast off, weave in the thread between the stitches on the inside of the bowl (wrong side). Cut. Carefully cut off the knot at point 2.&lt;br /&gt;· Done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check this short video to get a sneak peek of how I stitched the bowls. &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BNCykg-jfW8/" target="_blank"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No me pude resistir con estos platitos de madera. ¡Y por supuesto tampoco me pude resistir a hacerles un par de puntaditas! Son &lt;a href="http://www.casaideas.cl/set-6-bowls-postre-madera-3211840000014/p" target="_blank"&gt;platitos desechables para postre&lt;/a&gt; pero perfectamente se pueden usar como posavasos chicos o como canastito para guardar cachivaches (yo lo uso para dejar las hilachas cortadas cuando bordo).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Usé la herramienta rotatoria de Dremel con una broca de 3/64" para perforar los agujeros en la superficie del platito. Previamente marqué los puntos con un portaminas. Puedes adaptar el número total de puntos, forma o tamaño de acuerdo a la superficie que quieras intervenir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La puntada es súper fácil, entretenida y realmente rápida de trabajar (¡lo prometo!):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;· Corta una hebra de 40 cm (yo usé dos hebras de lana). Este largo alcanza para completar un “abanico” completo. Emplea una hebra nueva para cada abanico de modo que no queden saltos de hilo por el interior.&lt;br /&gt;· Enhebra una aguja de punta redondeada y haz un nudo al final de la hebra. Clava la aguja en 2 dejando el nudo por el lado derecho o exterior del platito (con esto vamos a crear una pequeña cola de hilo que quedará debajo de las siguientes puntadas).&lt;br /&gt;· Saca la aguja por 1 y clávala en el punto a.&lt;br /&gt;· Saca la aguja por 2 (por el costado del nudo, tratando de no atravesarlo) y clávala en el punto a.&lt;br /&gt;· Saca la aguja por 3 y clávala en el punto a.&lt;br /&gt;· Repite hasta completar las siete puntadas.&lt;br /&gt;· Para cerrar, pasa la aguja por entremedio de las puntadas que están por el revés (interior del platito) hasta que la hebra quede firme. Corta. Con cuidado, corta el nudo que está en el punto 2.&lt;br /&gt;· ¡Listo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y en este video puedes echar una mirada de cómo bordé estas puntadas. &lt;a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BNCykg-jfW8/" target="_blank"&gt;Clic aquí&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/4562407622490381802/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=4562407622490381802&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4562407622490381802" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4562407622490381802" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/11/how-to-embroidered-wooden-bowls.html" rel="alternate" title="How-to | Embroidered wooden bowls" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-2469899278965921221</id><published>2016-11-17T22:02:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2016-11-18T12:29:38.413-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><title type="text">Fuchsine – Embroidered potholder</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine03.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Fuchsine04.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a potholder that started out from a word I read somewhere (&lt;i&gt;fuchsine&lt;/i&gt;) that reminded me of a woolen fabric of a unique magenta colour I had in my stash and that sparked the use of a rich, creamy and chocolaty palette that I found among threads of wool and cotton, copper and gold metallic threads and a variegated brown pearl cotton of uncertain quality. Now, too many weeks later, it's finally finished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este es un toma-olla que comenzó a partir de una palabra que leí por ahí  (&lt;i&gt;fuchsine&lt;/i&gt;) que me recordó una tela de lana que tenía guardada de un color magenta muy peculiar y que detonó el uso de una paleta rica, cremosa y chocolatada que encontré entre hilados de lana y algodón, en hilos cobrizos y dorados y en un ovillo de algodón café matizado de calidad incierta. Ahora, demasiadas semanas después, está por fin terminado.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/2469899278965921221/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=2469899278965921221&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2469899278965921221" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2469899278965921221" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/11/fuchsine-embroidered-potholder.html" rel="alternate" title="Fuchsine – Embroidered potholder" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-3468610836039523046</id><published>2016-11-02T17:07:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2016-11-04T19:22:02.984-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nostalgia"/><title type="text">Birds cross-stitch motifs</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Birds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Birds.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine04.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NecchiSewingMachine05.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm currently obsessed with birds (cross-stitch motifs, actually) and discovering how they emerge as original and fresh renditions according to the medium. Here, plastic fusible beads and chalk on blackboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also featured is my new second-hand sewing machine. It's a Necchi Supernova that I'm still exploring and adjusting to its non-stop sewing system (unless I'm misunderstanding something here) which is operated by a lever instead of the pedal. The pedal, which by the way boasts of a striking wooden button, seems to only increase/decrease the speed of sewing. Of course there's no manual... If you happen to own one, I'd love if you could share with me any usage tip!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;UPDATE&lt;/b&gt;: I just found the manual in pdf format! Thanks to Gabriela, Maria and Raúl who kindly sent emails with tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por estos días ando obsesionada con los pájaros (o más bien los diseños de punto de cruz) y descubrir cómo aparecen representados de maneras novedosas de acuerdo al soporte. En la foto, cuentas plásticas y tiza sobre pizarra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También figura aquí mi nueva (de segunda o tercera mano) máquina de coser. Es una Necchi Supernova que todavía estoy explorando y adaptándome a su sistema de costura continua (a menos que no esté entendiendo algo) que es operado por una palanquita en vez del pedal. El pedal, que a todo esto ostenta un llamativo botón de madera, pareciera que solo aumenta/disminuye la velocidad de costura. Por supuesto, no hay manual... Si por casualidad tú también tienes una, ¡me encantaría si pudieras compartir conmigo cualquier consejo de uso!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ACTUALIZADO&lt;/b&gt;: ¡Ya encontré el manual en versión pdf! Gracias a Gabriela, Maria y Raúl por enviarme correos con varios datos. </content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/3468610836039523046/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=3468610836039523046&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/3468610836039523046" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/3468610836039523046" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/11/birds-cross-stitch-motifs.html" rel="alternate" title="Birds cross-stitch motifs" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-7533162778530299995</id><published>2016-10-27T16:39:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-11-01T20:31:47.319-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chicago"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="design"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pattern"/><title type="text">Embroidery samplers from the Chicago History Museum</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers05.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers06.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers03.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers04.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers07.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers08.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers09.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers10.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers11.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoHistoryMuseum_Samplers12.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My recent visit to the &lt;a href="http://www.chicagohs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Chicago History Museum&lt;/a&gt; it's probably one of the highlights of my last trip to the Windy City. There, I was able to spend some good time with embroidery samplers that are part of their comprehensive collection of textiles of all sorts. I had the privilege to look up close and touch the highly detailed needlework. I was particularly interested on how these early pieces are a living testimony about technique, colour usage and design process. I'm really lucky to have had amazing hosts during my visit. I'm really grateful of Britta and Petra who were very kind to open the archives and collection for my research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these samples are exemplary of masterful execution. The most used stitch is cross-stitch. It's possible to be found on alphabets, flowers and animals on linen fabrics. When compared to contemporary versions of similar subjects I think the most outstanding difference it's the size of stitches: each diagonal expands over two threads of the linen. This little detail makes each cross a remarkable exercise of attention and patience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colour of these samples was also a feature that I got caught up with. They all show a fairly muted palette and also many stains on the fabric. The exposure to light and the passing of time have caused a substantial fading of threads. Fortunately it's possible to discover their original color by reviewing the back side of the samples. It was also fascinating to discover small embroidered areas that reveal a creative twist from the embroiderer: when a specific colour was gone they would finish the section with a similar or completely different tone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm still inspecting all the photos I took, and it's exciting to find a new detail that went unnoticed during my visit. During the next weeks I'll be sharing some of these findings on my blog. Stay tuned!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;### &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno de los mejores momentos en mi reciente viaje a Chicago fue la visita al Museo de Historia de la ciudad (&lt;a href="http://www.chicagohs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Chicago History Museum&lt;/a&gt;) donde pude observar (¡y tocar!) parte de la colección de muestrarios que guardan en sus depósitos. Actualmente estoy investigando muestrarios de bordado ya que me interesa descubrir en estas piezas el testimonio de las primeras puntadas que plasma la bordadora en la tela y las decisiones que toma en cuanto a técnica, complejidad, uso de color y diseños. Agradezco profundamente a Britta y Petra quienes gentilmente abrieron los archivos de la colección para mi investigación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estos muestrarios son ejemplo de paciencia y ejecución técnica. La puntada más utilizada es el punto de cruz con el que se bordan abecedarios, flores y animales sobre telas de lino. Si tuviera que señalar una diferencia entre estos bordados y las versiones contemporáneas es quizás el tamaño de las puntadas: cada diagonal se extiende sobre dos hilos de la tela de lino haciendo de cada cruz una muestra admirable de trabajo y dedicación.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También llamó mi atención el color de los bordados. Todos muestran una paleta bastante desaturada y muchas manchas sobre la tela. El paso del tiempo y la exposición a la luz han provocado una pérdida sustancial del color de los hilos pero felizmente es posible descubrir el colorido original al inspeccionar las muestras por el revés. Otro detalle fascinante fue encontrarse con pequeñas áreas de bordado que delatan que la bordadora, sin la cantidad suficiente de hilado de un determinado color, tuvo que terminar la sección usando otro tono.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigo revisando todas las imágenes que tomé y me emociono cada vez que descubro algún detalle que no noté en la visita. En la próximas semanas estaré compartiendo en el blog algunos de esos descubrimientos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/7533162778530299995/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=7533162778530299995&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="1 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7533162778530299995" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7533162778530299995" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/10/embroidery-samplers-from-chicago.html" rel="alternate" title="Embroidery samplers from the Chicago History Museum" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-7096221332216100872</id><published>2016-10-17T00:10:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-10-17T00:10:03.041-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dremelpartner"/><title type="text">How a nice email can make your day</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NewEmbroideries03.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More embroideries from the series stitched on hard surfaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And extra surprises when I find unexpected gifts from lovely people who take the time to express with words how they feel about my work. Here's what this person wrote to me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I got early today at the office and I started browsing my favorite blogs as usual. Maybe without knowing I wanted to load myself with beautiful images and inspiration. Right when I saw your work I realized that by matter of chance a week ago I had watched a chapter of &lt;a href="http://www.seriemanufactura.cl/" target="_blank"&gt;Manufactura&lt;/a&gt; and I had already seen some of your work there. Thanks for the gist of calm. For the colors. For the ongoing story about the everyday things. The photographs were a moment of peace. I don't know if this message on this bottle will get to you, but I'm sending it anyway... maybe it will hit your shore. Thanks again, I loved to get my day started this way”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;### &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Más bordados de la serie aplicada sobre superficies rígidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y más sorpresas al encontrarme con regalos inesperados de gente amorosa que se toma el tiempo de expresar lo que siente con palabras al ver mi trabajo. Transcribo el mail que recibí:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;«Hoy llegué a mi oficina temprano y como de costumbre me puse a  revisar la web, mis blogs favoritos. Quizá sin quererlo quería cargarme  de bellas imágenes, de un poco de inspiración. Apenas vi tus bordados  caí en la cuenta que justo hace una semana, por otra casualidad, vi un  capítulo de &lt;a href="http://www.seriemanufactura.cl/" target="_blank"&gt;Manufactura&lt;/a&gt; y te había conocido. Gracias por regalarme un poco de calma. Por los colores. Por lo que vas relatando de la cotidianidad. Las fotos fueron un pequeño remanso de paz. No sé si este mensaje que lanzo al mar llegará, pero de todos modos lo mando...quizá llegue a tu &lt;span class="il"&gt;orilla&lt;/span&gt;. Gracias de nuevo, me encantó empezar el día así».&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gracias a ti. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/7096221332216100872/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=7096221332216100872&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7096221332216100872" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/7096221332216100872" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/10/how-nice-email-can-make-your-day.html" rel="alternate" title="How a nice email can make your day" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-8706035728369113070</id><published>2016-10-04T12:51:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-10-04T12:51:58.050-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chicago"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><title type="text">Hello Autumn</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-HypericumEmbroidery04.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm writing these words from Chicago. Autumn is coming, light is changing, colours are turning warmer. I've walked around Logan Square and I'm delighted to see houses that hang nice signs and ornaments on their entrance doors to welcome the new season. Someone told me “sorry about the weather” one rainy evening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm enjoying the days here. Just the quietness I needed to catch up on my embroideries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escribo esto desde Chicago. El otoño está llegando, la luz cambia, los colores se tornan más cálidos. He caminado por Logan Square y me entretiene descubir casas que cuelgan en sus puertas de entrada letreros y decoraciones que dan la bienvenida al otoño. Una tarde que llovía mucho alguien me dijo “perdón por este tiempo”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estoy disfrutando estos días acá. Justo la calma que necesitaba para ponerme al día con mis bordados.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/8706035728369113070/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=8706035728369113070&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="4 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8706035728369113070" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8706035728369113070" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/10/hello-autumn.html" rel="alternate" title="Hello Autumn" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-757469756371459156</id><published>2016-09-27T19:58:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-11-02T17:09:35.258-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="life"/><title type="text">When I'm in my studio I feel at home</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio04.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio05.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-InMyStudio06.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best image I can think of my life when looking back to this year is a roller-coaster: rapid moves followed by moments of calmness and then full throttle again. I have the feeling that 2015 never really ended because early this year I had to finish my book on embroidery which I had started working on the previous semester (intense months producing all of the book material, deadlines, corrections, re-doing things I already thought done, etc.) Then I hopped into a super busy business trip to Japan and China for a whole month! And as if these trips were not already time and energy consuming, add the implications of renovating and moving into my new studio in one of the most packed areas in Santiago. In the middle of all this, I made two long trips to the US where I’ve been setting up a new studio while managing to keep my teaching practice both at the school and my own workshops throughout the year. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this excitement has brought "collateral damage", of course. It’s been hard to align everything as neatly as I would have wanted. The most difficult thing has been finding quality time to focus on my creative process. I’ve missed deadlines for submissions and faced challenges around commissions that in other scenarios would have been easy to cope with. In fact, part of the images I’m sharing here were supposed to be published on a well-known design blog showing my studio BUT I missed the opportunity as I came up with the images way too late (I mean MONTHS too late).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can’t determine whether I'm a time-management disaster but when I look at this year under a positive light I realise it's been actually an amazing time. I'm so happy to be harvesting the fruits that my own work and life have produced. The quietness and luminous ambience I get on my studio can sometimes turn into a stormy setting but I know they will always come back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get a &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/CordilleraCL/videos/914427082034910/" target="_blank"&gt;glimpse of my studio in this short video&lt;/a&gt; that Cordillera did with me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCordilleraCL%2Fvideos%2F914427082034910%2F&amp;amp;show_text=0&amp;amp;width=560" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La mejor imagen que puedo pensar de mi vida mirando en retrospectiva este año es una montaña rusa: movimientos rápidos seguidos de momentos de calma y en seguida el acelerador a fondo. Tengo la sensación de que el 2015 nunca terminó realmente porque a principios de este año tuve que terminar mi libro acerca del bordado, en el cual había empezado a trabajar el semestre anterior (meses intensos produciendo todo el material del libro, cumpliendo plazos, correcciones, rehaciendo cosas que pensaba ya estaban realizadas, etc.) Entonces, me embarqué en un intenso viaje de negocios a Japón y China ¡por un mes entero! Y como si estos viajes no fueran desgastantes de tiempo y energía, añadan las consecuencias de la renovación y cambio a mi nuevo taller a una de las zonas más atestadas de Santiago. En el medio de todo esto, hice dos largos viajes a los EE.UU., donde he estado instalando un nuevo estudio, mientras me las arreglo con mi práctica docente, tanto en la universidad como en mis propios talleres durante el año.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toda esta excitación ha producido un "daño colateral", por supuesto. Ha sido difícil ajustar todo tan claramente como yo hubiera querido. Lo más difícil ha sido encontrar tiempo de calidad para centrarme en mi proceso creativo. He fallado en plazos para presentaciones y enfrentado desafíos en torno a encargos que en otros escenarios hubiera sido fácil manejar. De hecho, parte de las imágenes que estoy compartiendo aquí se supone iban a ser publicadas en un blog de diseño bien conocido que mostraría mi estudio, pero perdí la oportunidad ya que llegué con las imágenes demasiado tarde (me refiero a MESES demasiado tarde).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No puedo determinar si soy un desastre en gestión del tiempo, pero cuando miro este año bajo una luz positiva me doy cuenta que ha sido en realidad un tiempo increíble. Estoy tan feliz de estar cosechando los frutos que mi propio trabajo y la vida han producido. La tranquilidad y el ambiente luminoso que tengo en mi estudio a veces pueden convertirse en un escenario tormentoso, pero sé que siempre volverán. </content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/757469756371459156/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=757469756371459156&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/757469756371459156" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/757469756371459156" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/09/when-im-in-my-studio-i-feel-at-home.html" rel="alternate" title="When I'm in my studio I feel at home" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-8639339017823740667</id><published>2016-09-08T23:45:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-09-08T23:45:57.035-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dremelpartner"/><title type="text">Chenille cross-stitch</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille03.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille04.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chenille05.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this cross-stitch motif and how it renders so differently depending on the technique I employ. It started long ago on grid paper, then I tried it with &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2012/06/cross-stitch-on-cardboard.html" target="_blank"&gt;XL cross-stitch on cereal cardboard&lt;/a&gt;, more recently with fusible beads and now I'm exploring a chenille effect (aided with my &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremel tools&lt;/a&gt;). While the design loses some of its details and almost looks like a different one in chenille, I like a lot how the shape subtlety emerges within the velvet texture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chenille effect is something that actually occurred from a mistake: cutting some stitches that didn't turn out as expected revealed this soft surface on the perforated cardboard. So I dared and cut off all of the stitches. Lucky mistake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me encanta este diseño de punto de cruz y cómo se interpreta de modos tan distintos dependiendo de la técnica que emplee. Empezó hace muchos años sobre papel cuadriculado,&amp;nbsp; luego lo probé en &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2012/06/cross-stitch-on-cardboard.html" target="_blank"&gt;punto de cruz extra-grande sobre cartón de caja de cereales&lt;/a&gt;,  hace poco lo hice con cuentas plásticas y ahora estoy explorando un efecto chenille (usando mis &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;herramientas Dremel&lt;/a&gt;). Si bien el diseño pierde algo de detalle y casi parece como otro motivo en chenille, me gusta mucho cómo la figura se devela de a poco en la textura aterciopelada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El efecto chenille resultó en realidad por un error: al cortar algunas puntadas que no quedaron como quería, apareció de pronto esta superficie suave en el cartón perforado. Así que me atreví y corté todas las puntadas. Qué gusto cuando los errores terminan bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PD: ¡No se olviden y voten por alguno de los participantes del concurso &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremelizate&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/8639339017823740667/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=8639339017823740667&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8639339017823740667" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8639339017823740667" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/09/chenille-cross-stitch.html" rel="alternate" title="Chenille cross-stitch" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-8110919207909075833</id><published>2016-08-25T22:34:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2016-08-25T22:34:23.153-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="dremelpartner"/><title type="text">How to embroider using a Dremel</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel01.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-EmbroideryDremel04.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some weeks ago I was invited to join &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremel Chile&lt;/a&gt; as a partner to the brand (a sort of ambassador) and it's been a fascinating experience for my textile practice. For many years I've tried different ways of punching or perforating cardboard for achieving an embroiderable surface but I never dared for harder materials because I was doing the task only by hand. As a brand partner I will be able to try different tools and explore the possibilities they can offer to my embroidery work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first tool I've tried is the Dremel 3000 + flex shaft using different drill bits on this hard cardboard. Result: 7400 holes in all. Then I stitched some of the holes with wool yarn and cotton perlé thread.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what is going to be really exciting is participating as a judge to the &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremelizate&lt;/a&gt; competition which is looking for the Chilean Dremel Master. If you have a Dremel and want to join the competition, make a video of yourself using the tool and showing your skills with it. Find all the details on the &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremel Chile Facebook fanpage&lt;/a&gt;. Closes August 30th, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace algunas semanas me invitaron a participar de &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremel Chile&lt;/a&gt; como partner de la marca (algo así como un embajador) y la experiencia ha resultado ser fascinante para mi práctica textil. Por muchos años me he dedicado a perforar y calar cartones para obtener superficies bordables pero nunca me animé con materiales rígidos ya que hacía todo a mano. Como partner de la marca puedo probar distintas herramientas y explorar las posibilidades que pueden ofrecerle a mi trabajo de bordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La primera herramienta que he probado es el Dremel 3000 + eje flexible con distintas brocas sobre este cartón duro. Resultado: 7400 hoyitos en total. Luego bordé a través de algunos hoyitos con lana y algodón perlé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero lo que va ser realmente divertido será participar como jurado del concurso &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;Dremelizate&lt;/a&gt; que está buscando al Dremel Master de Chile. Si tienes un Dremel y quieres entrar en el concurso, tienes que hacer un video de ti trabajando con la herramienta y demostrando tus habilidades con ella. Puedes encontrar todos los detalles en el &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/dremelchile" target="_blank"&gt;fanpage de Dremel Chile en Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. Cierra el 30 de agosto de 2016.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Nos vemos!</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/8110919207909075833/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=8110919207909075833&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8110919207909075833" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8110919207909075833" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/08/how-to-embroider-using-dremel.html" rel="alternate" title="How to embroider using a Dremel" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-9011525409197790382</id><published>2016-08-02T11:17:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2016-08-02T11:17:51.941-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chicago"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="design"/><title type="text">New! Bath towels</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels01.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels01.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels02.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels02.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels03.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels04.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels04.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels05.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels05.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels06.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BathTowels06.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/Tiles-Ladder2.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/Tiles-Ladder2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many years ago (2009 to be precise) I started my textile brand and one of the first designs I did was this set of screen-printed fabric tiles that I used for sewing duvet covers, cushions, bags and also sold as a sew-it-yourself pack. Now seven years later it makes me so happy to see this design evolve into new products: a collection of bath towels that have the charm of old placid days. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you live in the American Midwest you can find these towels now at &lt;a href="https://www.meijer.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Meijer&lt;/a&gt; supermarkets (and why not head afterwards to Lake Michigan and enjoy a nice summer day?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hace muchos años (en 2009 para ser exactos) comencé a desarrollar mi marca textil y uno de los primeros diseños que realicé fue este set de azulejos estampados sobre tela que usé para coser cubre-plumones, fundas de cojines, bolsos y que también vendí como packs para coser-tú-mismo. Hoy, siete años después me hace profundamente feliz contemplar cómo este diseño evoluciona en nuevos productos: una colección de toallas de baño que tienen el encanto de los plácidos días del ayer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si vives en el Medio Oeste (Estados Unidos) puedes encontrar estas toallas ahora en los supermercados &lt;a href="https://www.meijer.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Meijer&lt;/a&gt; (¿y qué tal luego partir al lago Míchigan a disfrutar una fantástica tarde de verano?).</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/9011525409197790382/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=9011525409197790382&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="3 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/9011525409197790382" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/9011525409197790382" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/08/new-bath-towels.html" rel="alternate" title="New! Bath towels" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-4317853827783763863</id><published>2016-07-30T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2016-07-30T13:07:06.797-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chicago"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><title type="text">Machine embroidery | Johana Moscoso studio in Chicago</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso01.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso01.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso02.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso03.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso04.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso04.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso05.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso05.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso06.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso06.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso07.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso07.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso08.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso08.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso09.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso09.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso10.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso10.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso11.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JohanaMoscoso11.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I got into &lt;a href="http://johanamoscoso.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Johana Moscoso&lt;/a&gt;'s studio she welcomed me saying, thanks so much for taking the time to come here. And I was, oh no, thanks to you for letting me visit and see how and where you work. Because it's the most generous gesture when an artist lets you into her private world of creation and be able to see the real backstage of her artwork. &lt;a href="http://johanamoscoso.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Johana&lt;/a&gt; is a Colombian artist based in Chicago currently exploring the expressive possibilities of machine embroidery to tell the stories of herself and family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuando llegué al estudio de &lt;a href="http://johanamoscoso.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Johana Moscoso&lt;/a&gt; de inmediato me recibió agradeciendo por haberme tomado el tiempo de visitarla. Me apuré en decirle que la agradecida era yo por haberme invitado y permitirme ver cómo y dónde trabaja. Creo que el acto más generoso de un artista es cuando abre las puertas de su espacio creativo y uno puede presenciar en directo la forma en que emerge su arte. &lt;a href="http://johanamoscoso.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Johana&lt;/a&gt; es una artista colombiana quien vive en Chicago y actualmente está explorando las posibilidades expresivas del bordado a máquina para contar sus historias personales y familiares.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/4317853827783763863/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=4317853827783763863&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4317853827783763863" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4317853827783763863" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/07/machine-embroidery-johana-moscoso.html" rel="alternate" title="Machine embroidery | Johana Moscoso studio in Chicago" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-1323933183538489980</id><published>2016-07-19T13:14:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2016-07-19T13:14:33.798-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="chicago"/><title type="text">Hello from Chicago!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles01.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles01.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles02.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles03.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-ChicagoTextiles03.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago01.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago01.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago02.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago02.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago03.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago04.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago04.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago05.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago05.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago06.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago06.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago07.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Chicago07.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello from Chicago! A wonderful city to be inspired by its history, colour, music and food. I arrived a week ago to enjoy the warm and humid summer. I've already seen some textiles, had tasty coffee and beer and rejoiced in a night of jazz. I'm staying here for a few more weeks and I hope to gather lots of exciting images. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Saludos desde Chicago! Una ciudad magnífica para inspirarse con su historia, colores, música y comida. Llegué hace una semana para disfrutar de este verano cálido y húmedo. He visto algo de textiles, he tomado cafés y cervezas buenísimas y tuve una noche de jazz. Seguiré aquí por unas semanas más y espero juntar montones de imágenes para alucinar.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/1323933183538489980/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=1323933183538489980&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="6 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1323933183538489980" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1323933183538489980" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/07/hello-from-chicago.html" rel="alternate" title="Hello from Chicago!" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-6425045506338282704</id><published>2016-07-05T23:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2016-07-05T23:30:23.142-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="design"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shop"/><title type="text">Inspired by cross-stitch motifs</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyPink.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyPink.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-FlorBolsoMarinero.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-FlorBolsoMarinero.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-FlowersTeaTowel.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-FlowersTeaTowel.jpg" height="427" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-CrownGoldwork.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-CrownGoldwork.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-DogDuckGoldwork1.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-DogDuckGoldwork1.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-DogDuckGoldwork2.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-DogDuckGoldwork2.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love cross-stitch patterns. I'm always thinking in small squares so everything I get to stitch is one way or another related to them. Perhaps it's because as a girl I learned to embroider with these painted cross-stitch or petit point kits, or because it seems to me these motifs dwell in a square grid that gives them a sense of textile structure that I like so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it was unavoidable for cross-stitch motifs not to be the inspiration behind my new collection of &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/" target="_blank"&gt;embroidered patches&lt;/a&gt;. The Tea Party set was born after embroidering these &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/02/the-new-and-old.html" target="_blank"&gt;perforated cardboard shapes&lt;/a&gt;. The flower patch looks after one of my favourite &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2012/10/new-colours-embroidered-potholders.html" target="_blank"&gt;embroidered potholder designs&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2010/06/cosas.html" target="_blank"&gt;the dog and the duck&lt;/a&gt; have been around me for quite a while (six years now!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/" target="_blank"&gt;patches collection&lt;/a&gt; here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soy una fanática de los motivos de punto de cruz. Siempre ando pensando en cuadraditos así que no es raro que lo que borde esté relacionado con ellos de algún modo. Quizás porque de niña aprendí a bordar con estos kits de punto de cruz o medio punto o porque me parece que estos diseños habitan en una grilla cuadrada que les da una suerte de cuerpo textil que me gusta mucho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así que era inevitable que el punto de cruz no fuera la fuente de inspiración para mi nueva colección de &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/" target="_blank"&gt;parches bordados&lt;/a&gt;. El set de tostadita, tacita y carita nacieron de estas f&lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/02/the-new-and-old.html" target="_blank"&gt;iguras bordadas en cartón&lt;/a&gt;. El parche de flor es igual a uno de mis diseños favoritos de &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2012/10/new-colours-embroidered-potholders.html" target="_blank"&gt;tomaollas bordados.&lt;/a&gt; Y &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2010/06/cosas.html" target="_blank"&gt;el perro y el pato&lt;/a&gt; me rondan hace un buen tiempo&amp;nbsp; (¡¡¡hace seis años ya!!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dale un vistazo a &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/" target="_blank"&gt;la colección de parches&lt;/a&gt; por acá.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/6425045506338282704/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=6425045506338282704&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/6425045506338282704" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/6425045506338282704" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/07/inspired-by-cross-stitch-motifs.html" rel="alternate" title="Inspired by cross-stitch motifs" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-2822775812850133217</id><published>2016-06-25T01:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2016-06-25T01:01:11.329-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="workshop"/><title type="text">Clases de bordado</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NataliaNinomiya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-NataliaNinomiya.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-SilviaAlfaro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-SilviaAlfaro.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr1.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr2.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-JavieraParr3.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you've read that all happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (that's the opening line of &lt;i&gt;Anna Karenina&lt;/i&gt;). I've found that, when it comes to my embroidery workshops, the opposite it's true: all groups are happy and unique in their own way but they all suffer and get frustrated in the same manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knots, split threads, uncertain colour palettes, agonizing needle threading, lack of time for embroidering—that's just a few of the challenges faced by beginner embroiderers. The good news is that all those things can be overcome by practice (except for lack of time, sadly!) The more you embroider, the more you learn how to deal with these common problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each group always surprise me with their positive vibes but most of all with their extraordinary talent to render every stitch that we learn. I'm really proud to share with you some of that embroidery genius (images shown from top to bottom): the beautiful and flawless sampler stitched by &lt;a href="http://muniamicrafts.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Natalia Ninomiya&lt;/a&gt;;  sampler inspired by Chilean ethnic ceramic motifs by  archeologist Silvia Alfaro; the most exquisite embroidery notes made by  design student &lt;a href="https://www.behance.net/javiparr" target="_blank"&gt;Javiera Parr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want to join and learn how to embroider? The next workshops start in August!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/workshops/"&gt;Check dates and hours here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quizás hayan leído por ahí que todas las familias felices se parecen entre sí y que las infelices son desgraciadas en su propia manera (es la frase inicial de &lt;i&gt;Ana Karenina&lt;/i&gt;). Me he dado cuenta que, en el caso de mis talleres de bordado, resulta al revés: todos los grupos son alegres y especiales en su propio estilo mientras que todos sufren y se frustran por las mismas cosas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los nudos, los hilos que se rompen, las paletas de colores que no funcionan, los agónicos momentos al enhebrar la aguja, la falta de tiempo para bordar son solo algunos de los desafíos a los que se enfrentan quienes aprenden a bordar. La buena noticia es que todo esas cosas se pueden superar a través de la práctica (claro, excepto la falta de tiempo). Cuanto más se borda, más se aprende a resolver estos problemas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada grupo siempre me sorprende con su buena onda pero sobre todo con el extraordinario talento que despliegan para cada puntada que revisamos. Estoy realmente orgullosa de compartir acá algunas fotos de las genialidades (las imágenes se muestran de arriba a abajo): el muestrario hermoso e impecable de &lt;a href="http://muniamicrafts.etsy.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Natalia Ninomiya&lt;/a&gt;; la arqueóloga Silvia Alfaro plasmó en su muestrario motivos de cerámica diaguita; la estudiante de diseño &lt;a href="https://www.behance.net/javiparr" target="_blank"&gt;Javiera Parr&lt;/a&gt; tomó los apuntes más lindos que haya visto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Te nos unes para aprender a bordar? Los próximos talleres largan en agosto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/workshops/"&gt;Revisa las fechas y los horarios aquí&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/2822775812850133217/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=2822775812850133217&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2822775812850133217" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/2822775812850133217" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/06/clases-de-bordado.html" rel="alternate" title="Clases de bordado" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-4821979435638417309</id><published>2016-06-17T16:38:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2016-06-17T16:38:56.961-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shop"/><title type="text">Tea Party – Embroidered Sticker Patches</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet1.jpg" height="640" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet3.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyToast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyToast.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyCup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyCup.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyFace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartyFace.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet4.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-TeaPartySet2.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm very happy to introduce my first collection of &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/"&gt;embroidered patches&lt;/a&gt; which I developed in April during my trip to Japan and China. These designs were born after &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/02/the-new-and-old.html"&gt;these embroideries stitched on perforated cardboard&lt;/a&gt;. This tea party set come as sticker patches that can be attached to any smooth surface. Find this mischievous trio on my &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/"&gt;online shop&lt;/a&gt; (be careful, they like chocolate!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estoy muy feliz de presentarles mi primera colección de &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/"&gt;parches bordados&lt;/a&gt; la cual desarrollé en abril durante mi viaje a Japón y China. Estos diseños nacieron a partir de &lt;a href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/02/the-new-and-old.html"&gt;estos bordados hechos en cartón perforado&lt;/a&gt;. Este set de tostadita, tacita y carita vienen como autoadhesivos que pueden ser pegados sobre cualquier superficie lisa. Pueden encontrar a este trío travieso en mi &lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/"&gt;tienda online&lt;/a&gt; (¡cuidado, les gusta el chocolate!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.karenbarbe.com/"&gt;http://shop.karenbarbe.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/4821979435638417309/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=4821979435638417309&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4821979435638417309" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/4821979435638417309" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/06/tea-party-embroidered-sticker-patches.html" rel="alternate" title="Tea Party – Embroidered Sticker Patches" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-1302992969553044060</id><published>2016-05-16T17:26:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2016-05-16T17:26:14.399-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><title type="text">Binding embroidery hoops</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop02.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop03.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-BindingEmbroideryHoop04.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's no right answer: the best embroidery hoop is the one that best suits your project needs. It certainly depends on your personal preferences but it also has to do with the type of stitch and fabric you are using. I love the look of wooden hoops but too often I find it difficult to achieve good tautness (compared to spring tension plastic) especially if you are embroidering on fine fabric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Binding wood embroidery hoops with bias tape is a great way of getting that drum-tight fabric you need when embroidering certain stitches (like satin or laid stitches) or using thin fabrics. You can bind one ring or both for added fabric grip and even use a similar colour to avoid any friction staining. Make some small stitches at the beginning and end of the tape to keep it in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No hay respuesta correcta: el mejor bastidor para bordar es aquel que mejor se acomoda a las necesidades de tu proyecto. Ciertamente dependerá de las preferencias de cada uno pero también tienen que ver con el tipo de puntada o tela. Me encantan los bastidores de madera pero muchas veces me resulta difícil conseguir una buena tensión (comparado con los bastidores plásticos de presión) especialmente al bordar telas finas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una buena alternativa es embarrilar el bastidor con cinta de sesgo para lograr una tela tirante al bordar ciertas puntadas (como satín o puntadas largas) o usar telas delgadas. Puedes embarrilar un anillo o los dos para un aún mejor agarre e incluso usar el mismo color para evitar cualquier mancha por fricción. Fija la cinta al principio y final con unas puntaditas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/1302992969553044060/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=1302992969553044060&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="6 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1302992969553044060" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1302992969553044060" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/05/binding-embroidery-hoops.html" rel="alternate" title="Binding embroidery hoops" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-8991610326433882457</id><published>2016-05-07T08:15:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2016-06-06T21:23:19.840-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="craft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="japan"/><title type="text">Kogin embroidery</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin02.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin03.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin04.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin05.jpg" height="426" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin06.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin07.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kogin08.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is part of the exquisite work of Osaka-based embroiderers Reiko Daigo and Midori Hirayama. They've been embroidering and teaching Kogin for over 18 years but this was the first time they taught to a non-Japanese speaker—me! We were all very excited and nervous to be able to make the most of this experience despite the language difference. Reiko opened her house to receive me and my friend Hiromi and for several days we could learn and practise this traditional stitch from Japan. &lt;i&gt;Arigato gozaimasu!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aquí aparece parte del bellísimo trabajo de Reiko Daigo y Midori Hirayama, dos bordadoras que viven en Osaka. Ellas han estado bordando y enseñando la técnica Kogin por más de 18 años pero esta era la primera vez que le enseñaban a alguien que no hablara japonés: ¡yo! Estábamos todas muy emocionadas y nerviosas por poder aprovechar al máximo esta experiencia a pesar de la diferencia de idioma. Reiko nos abrió su casa para recibirme junto a mi amiga Hiromi y por varios días pudimos aprender y practicar esta puntada tradicional de Japón.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/8991610326433882457/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=8991610326433882457&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="5 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8991610326433882457" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/8991610326433882457" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/05/kogin-embroidery.html" rel="alternate" title="Kogin embroidery" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30411744.post-1422202261411807786</id><published>2016-04-24T06:30:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2016-04-24T06:30:50.067-03:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="colour"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="japan"/><title type="text">Natural dyes – Kyoto</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kyoto10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.karenbarbe.com/blog/KarenBarbe-Kyoto10.jpg" height="480" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week my friend Hiromi and I made a short trip to visit a &lt;a href="http://www.oohara-no-sato.co.jp/english/"&gt;traditional onsen spa&lt;/a&gt; located in rural Kyoto. The bath, the view of the place and the chance to learn about natural dying made up for the long bus trip into the mountain which was a bit of a nightmare to me (I get sick easily with motion).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We dyed cotton and silk samples using indigo leaves (blue), plant roots (red), tree bark (brown) and leaves (yellow) from the area. Did you know that natural dyes had an important role in clothes? Garments dyed with indigo protected farmers from insects while a red piece of cloth worn by ninja was dyed with plant roots as it had healing properties in case of being wounded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;###&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La semana pasada con mi amiga Hiromi nos escapamos para ir a unos &lt;a href="http://www.oohara-no-sato.co.jp/english/"&gt;baños tradicionales japoneses&lt;/a&gt; en las afueras de Kyoto. El baño, la vista del lugar y la suerte que tuvimos de aprender sobre teñidos con tintes naturales compensaron totalmente la pesadilla que fue para mí el largo viaje en bus hacia la montaña (me mareo fácilmente).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teñimos muestras de algodón y seda con hojas de índigo (azul), raíces (rojo), corteza de árbol (café) y hojas (amarillo) del área. ¿Sabías que los tintes naturales tenían un rol importante en la ropa? Las prendas teñidas con índigo protegían a los campesinos de los insectos mientras que el pañuelo de tela roja que ocupaban los ninja estaba teñido con raíces de plantas ya que tenía propiedades curativas en caso de ser herido.</content><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/feeds/1422202261411807786/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30411744&amp;postID=1422202261411807786&amp;isPopup=true" rel="replies" title="2 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1422202261411807786" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30411744/posts/default/1422202261411807786" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://blog.karenbarbe.com/2016/04/natural-dyes-kyoto.html" rel="alternate" title="Natural dyes – Kyoto" type="text/html"/><author><name>Karen Barbé</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12918691945172194341</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4WhnS7eaqtE/VSP1B-zGfPI/AAAAAAAAC9c/SJ5aqV4naw4/s220/KarenBarbe2.jpg" width="32"/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>