Voiceless Palatal Fricatives
Hi there,
I’m back with a new embroidery:
I’ve never seen Amy Winehouse in real life, but I’m guessing birds could comfortably nest in her giant beehive. Apologies for the bad scan. In real life it looks almost like a graphic design instead of an embroidery. At least until you look at the back:
I’m always curious to see what other embroideries look like on the back. It’s sort of interesting in its own messy, abstract way.
I’ve also got a brand new font. This took an amazingly long time to create because the program I normally use up and decided to start charging me money to use it. So I had do research and download a new program to make this thing, and it took nearly a month to get it finished. So I probably won’t be making too many fonts from now on.
I was going to draw the Queen of Diamonds but I heard she’ll beat you if she’s able. Yes, that really was a "Desperado" reference.
This font also has a lot more characters than the others, so if you ever needed to use the Icelandic alphabet or the IPA symbol for a voiceless palatal fricative, then this is for you!
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-Sarah
Tags: amy winehouse, birds, embroidery, fonts, icelandic, voiceless palatal fricatives
March 7th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
[...] From the brilliant embroideress, Sarah of Totally Severe, who brought you Tim Gunn in stitches, behold the amazing details of Amy Winehouse. [...]
March 8th, 2010 at 5:16 am
Awesomeness. Amy is beautiful and feminine… in stitches. “Queen” font is neat-o too – which font generator did you use? I did like yourfonts.com, but $12 is a bit rich if one has many fonts in mind.
March 8th, 2010 at 6:34 am
Gorgeous!
March 8th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Your embroideries are really getting awesome. Not that they weren’t awesome before. They are just getting awesomer. Also I love the International Phonetic Alphabet, for reals.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
MyFonts.com used to be free to use, so that’s how I made all the previous fonts. I used Type Light to make the Queen of Hearts font: http://www.cr8.netfirms.com/typelight.html
It’s a lot more time-consuming to use, and I’m still sort of looking for a program that’s a little easier.
March 9th, 2010 at 5:42 am
Wow, well done. Have you been out ridin’ fences, for toooo long now?
March 10th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
God you rock SO hard…You are my new favorite here on the internets!!!
Keep doing what you do
March 10th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Oh, I’m a hard one, but you know that I got my reasons.
March 11th, 2010 at 12:11 am
your work is soooooo amazing- I HAD to show it off:
take a peek!
http://namaste-elsiee.blogspot.com/
namaste,
elsie
March 24th, 2010 at 1:18 am
gorgeousness……..
March 31st, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Your portrait is beautiful. I hope someday Ms. Winehouse will be as happy as your stitches portray her. The back is a fascinating peek! Really nice!
April 7th, 2010 at 1:55 am
Wow, I just found this blog by following a link from sublime stiching! This is beautiful keep up the good work.