I've been sewing down padding for Peony today.
Some of it is really ugly stuff.
Believe it or not, that ugly stuff that looks like it's in bondage is wool carpet padding. On a goldwork project instead of the floor, you ask?
To get a really raised surface, you need really thick padding. I suppose you could get it with layers upon layers of felt, but that would likely take ages to stitch down, one little layer after another, so some bright stitcher figured out that carpet padding would work quite well.
It won't stay like this. Tomorrow, if all goes well, I'll cover that with more of the yellow felt and it won't be quite so hideous. And, if all continues to go well, I'll spend the next day after that stitching down gold string for yet another method of padding goldwork.
And then, finally, I can start doing some of the really pretty stuff.
Meanwhile, there has been progress on Elizabeth Hill as well.
And this leads to another mystery. Whose initials are set off with a dark background? I'm thinking they might be the parents' initials since the second of each is also an "H". I suppose we'll never know for sure.
In between the sets of initials will be a set of numbers from 1 to 11. I guess she had to stop the numbers because she ran out of room.
Just another little mystery.
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