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Taken the hint now....
Jun. 12th, 2005 08:36 pmSometimes the world just appears to not want you to do something.
Did well in the looting stakes today. Rather than hunt for blank even weave embroidery cloth at about $60+ per m, found several even weave mostly-not-embroidered-on linen table mats for $10 from the local YMCA op shop. Unpicked, strung up on embroidery frame and decided to dig out the notes/instructions for a 13/14th C German embroidered pouch. One of the few extant ones and hence turns up quite often around the place. Checked embroidery threads from prior garage sales and after substituting light green for white and purple for blue (yeah, yeah, yeah), started sewing.
Started well, through the top row (~1 hours work while watching a doco on the French revolution(s)), started next thread, and low and behold, discover triangles consistantly 1 stitch too small. Bugger. Unthread, and unpick all bar about 5 stitches, start again. About an hour and a bit later (this time past dinner, the news and part way into a doco on Hanibel (too many elephants is a bad thing), discover made the diagonal straight bits one stitch too long (consistantly). So, unpick 98% of it. Then lose needle...
So, is this a hint not to do embroidery, a hint not to do sewing, or a hint not to start any new projects?
As long as when I pick up the needle and get back to the cuffs of the bliaut, that doesn't self-destruct...
Occasionally you hear bursts of fireworks in the background this weekend. Queen's Birthday is the one legal weekend for buying and setting off fireworks privately in the ACT. And Z missed it (again). Should I have gone to the markets and stockpiled?
Did well in the looting stakes today. Rather than hunt for blank even weave embroidery cloth at about $60+ per m, found several even weave mostly-not-embroidered-on linen table mats for $10 from the local YMCA op shop. Unpicked, strung up on embroidery frame and decided to dig out the notes/instructions for a 13/14th C German embroidered pouch. One of the few extant ones and hence turns up quite often around the place. Checked embroidery threads from prior garage sales and after substituting light green for white and purple for blue (yeah, yeah, yeah), started sewing.
Started well, through the top row (~1 hours work while watching a doco on the French revolution(s)), started next thread, and low and behold, discover triangles consistantly 1 stitch too small. Bugger. Unthread, and unpick all bar about 5 stitches, start again. About an hour and a bit later (this time past dinner, the news and part way into a doco on Hanibel (too many elephants is a bad thing), discover made the diagonal straight bits one stitch too long (consistantly). So, unpick 98% of it. Then lose needle...
So, is this a hint not to do embroidery, a hint not to do sewing, or a hint not to start any new projects?
As long as when I pick up the needle and get back to the cuffs of the bliaut, that doesn't self-destruct...
Occasionally you hear bursts of fireworks in the background this weekend. Queen's Birthday is the one legal weekend for buying and setting off fireworks privately in the ACT. And Z missed it (again). Should I have gone to the markets and stockpiled?
