This lovely box of goodies
is going to turn into this:Stitching Foolishness
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Everything is Blooming
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Salvage Mission
I managed to salvage the Eternal Flame Huswif from total disaster.
Don't even ask what the disaster was. It involved mis-cutting something, and that is all I want to say about the matter.
Other than it was a learning experience.
I thought I was getting too old for learning experiences. At least I hoped I was. Apparently not.
Anyway, here's the inside:
And, here's the outside:
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Bumping into Walls
Daylight Savings Time started and I have a toothache. If dreadful things come in threes, I'm waiting for the third one to hit.
Oh, wait, it did. I mis-cut the pockets for the needle roll I'm supposed to be putting together. I think I can salvage it, but that may be a delusion caused by sleep disturbances. It's bad enough to lose an hour of sleep for some misguided plan to give us more light in the evenings (despite 20 years of sleep science telling us that we need to have the sun where and when it's supposed to be, otherwise our circadian rhythms get all screwed up)--but to have a tooth implode is something above and beyond necessary.
All will be well--maybe not with the finishing--but I am on antibiotics for the tooth and my "old" dentist can work me in for a probable root canal on Monday. And, luckily, that is the break day between classes with Jackie du Plessis at Sassy Jack's. Instead of getting to stitch with my buddies, Dearly Beloved and I will be heading to my old stomping grounds. I am busy making lemonade out of lemons, since we figured if we leave early enough, we can have lunch at our very favorite Japanese restaurant before the dentist sees me.
And I have done a little bit of stitching.
This is going to be a pocket for Merry Cox's House on the Hill project.Thursday, March 7, 2024
Fear of Failure
I've started finishing, and I am filled with fear and trepidation.
Tell me about a technique I've never done, and I'm right there at the head of the line to try it. Show me something that needs to be ripped out, and I have no problem. Well, maybe I have a problem, but I do it because it needs to be done.
Show me something that needs to be put together and I have to take a deep breath before I take the first step. I'm so afraid I'm going to mess it up that I will look for all kinds of excuses to avoid it. Today I went to the grocery store with Dearly Beloved and read the EGA magazine, NeedleArts, from cover to cover.
But if I want to have stitching toys, I eventually have to assemble them.
So, I'm taking that deep breath.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
More Happy Mail
I seem to recall saying I was going to stitch from stash this year. Maybe I meant I was going to stitch from stash next year . . .
Because another goody arrived in today's mail.
I signed up for this class, A Hummingbird in Silk and Gold through EGA last year, but it was postponed because of problems getting the materials. Everything has come in now, and the materials kit was in today's mail.
OOOOHHHH, just look at all the little packets of gold threads and the jewel tones in the silks!! Makes my heart go potty-pat.
My heart is going to have to wait for a while, though. The class isn't starting until April 3.
Patience, must have patience.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
All in a Day's Work
As you may have noticed if you've read this blog for any length of time, I do love me some Barbara Jackson projects. A new one arrived while I was in Williamsburg, you may remember from yesterday's post.
Today it is finished. In fact, it is finish-finished.
This may be a new land-sea record. At least, for me.
The finishing directions haven't been posted yet, but I believe they will be the same as the Little Pilgrim hornbook from last year, which I also stitched. I need to put this one back under the weight--one side is not exactly sticking down so I may need to push a wee bit more glue under it and set the brick back on it until it decides to cooperate.
Now I need to decide what other kind of trouble to get into.
Monday, March 4, 2024
That was the Week that Was
I'm home again.
As usual, I took the laptop with all good intentions to blog while I was gone. As usual, I didn't. And, as usual, what I thought I was going to accomplish, I didn't.
No more plans.
I planned to stitch in the stitching room all week. Instead, I caught up with old friends' lives, made new friends, laughed a lot , went out to dinner, and poked at my projects a little. I hit snags on both projects I took to work on, figured out one, gave up on the other until I was home and could get over my snit, and shopped.
This is the little bit I did on Carmen.
Bless her heart, little Carmen didn't space the berries and leaves consistently, so each one has to be counted. And counted again. Talking and laughing are not conducive to accurate counting.This is the kit for Martha Edlin's ornament--just look at those luscious colors! And don't forget, Tricia is offering a wonderful online class on Martha's life and needlework for the low, low price of $15, $5 of which goes to the V&A. It is an amazing piece of research that changes the way we should view the lives of women of her time.