The Joke’s on the End User

There was recently a kerfuffle in a Slow Stitch group on FB about people posting AI-generated images and passing them off as their own stitchwork. I can’t find the exact quote anymore (f’n FB and its f’n algorithm), but the point was made that when you post your own real work, it gets harvested by the AIs for plagiaristic use. HA HA! Imagine asking an AI for a stunning work of complex beauty, and getting my stuff, with a bit more yarn. Lol. Serves them right.

Interrobang UFO

In 2012, I became obsessed by the interrobang just long enough to collage together a shape and a quilted substrate.

I wanted to make it more complex and even printed out some diagrams to bead onto the substrate, but in the end decided to be lazy honor the original vision. I can bead diagrams onto something else later.

I’d like to do more tiny collage, but I don’t have any tulle, and it’s a couple months until the next traveling fabric market. Meh.

Valcamonica Roses

I’ve been reading/hearing/seeing a lot about petroglyphs lately. These small (4″) pieces are loosely based off symbols carved into rocks in Lombardy. Watch this space for more later.

Tried a new edge finish. I don’t like it.

Some days I think I like the close-up photos of the stitching more than the actual finished stitched pieces.

Mousevaark

I made a couple of these small creatures in 2021 and had a scrap of sock leftover. You can make your own following the directions here. Instead of rice, I used aquarium gravel.

I’d like to post some stitchwork more often than once every three weeks, so I’d better get back to it.