In my part of the world we say you are a fool if your passion for a pursuit overcomes all practical sense. I am a stitching fool, and I stitch foolishness.

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Silks and precious metals

 I have projects that involve silks and metal threads that I want to work on, too.

Can we say wretched excess? Can we say "biting off more than we can chew?"

So, what else is new . . .story of my stitching life . . . 

Of course, I want to finish the Cherished Lettercase. That you've seen, probably more than you want.

Then I started a new class with Zina today, her Elizabethan Rose. This is what I stitched in class.

As I have previously noted, I don't stitch well in class, but I did get most of a stripey leaf and the body of the beetle done. There are a lot of stripey leaves to stitch plus the beginning of the frame before class three weeks from now.

The first class for Tricia Nguyen's Pincushions of Nuremberg was posted. Look at those luscious silks! I gotta find a scroll frame and get the linen mounted for that so I can stick a needle in it.


I belong to the Dayton chapter of EGA, and they sponsor a Special Interest Group in goldwork. This design showed up in Inspirations magazine's last issue, and a bunch of us wanted to stitch it--so it's going to be our ongoing project (along with others) for awhile. I need to transfer the design to the fabric, get it mounted, and do the padding before our next meeting.

And then there's my hummingbird that I was working on about this time last year. I got all the silk done but haven't gilded the bird. I'd like to have that finished since I signed up for another class with the designer, scheduled to start in October. I suppose I should add the hummingbird to my list.

Okay, we just went all the way from ridiculously optimistic to Fantasy Land. Stop me before I add anything else!


6 comments:

  1. What a wonderful assortment of new projects for your stitching basket, Ann!

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    1. Stitching FoolishnessSeptember 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM

      And this was the year I wanted to stitch from stash . . . sigh . . .

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  2. No, not gonna bother - just gonna tag along! Love to see what you're stitching. Elaine

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    1. Stitching FoolishnessSeptember 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM

      Thank you--but I think I need more hours in the day--so many pretty things to entice a person!

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  3. Resistance is futile. There are too many goodies out there nowadays! If you pass on something, it may never come back--and this is how a stash is born. LOL! On the other hand, you are never bored.

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    1. Stitching FoolishnessSeptember 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM

      Exactly--if you don't grab it now, it will disappear forever! And I have definitely achieved SABLE--unless, of course, I do live to 385.

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