Snow was not very far away from us this weekend, I saw white covered cars and a little on the roadside while out and about. We however have a surplus of the wet stuff ~ I can tell you LM was not amused. Outside enjoyable car tinkering had to be postponed on Saturday and instead the paintwork sanding in the en-suite called his name! And what a fine job he did too.
I attended my first Embroiderer's Guild meeting for the year on Saturday with the lovely C. It was a cold one, no heating in the hall, and a technical hitch prevented us having full view of the slides that accompanied the speaker's talk. That said it was a good afternoon and an interesting subject ~ tapestry weaving. As usual C managed to find some bounty on the sale table and came away with a batch of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly magazines which she has generously shared with me together with a few american crochet magazines. I found a lovely DMC book which I will share another time as I have not managed to photograph this yet.
Stitching and finishing were slower than I expected ~ On one of the birthday projects I found that some 1/1 work that looked really nice was in fact incorrectly placed and had to come out, this held up progress quite badly. It's hard enough to remove 1/1 but it was stitched in quite a dark colour which left deposits. Once the corrections were made and the addition of one of the final motifs I set this aside ~ I really don't like working on something I feel has become a chore - I shall return to this soon.
My new love, The Sampler Lady by LHN, was given quite a lot of attention as you can see from this photograph.
Aside from changing the actual size ~ I'm stitching 1/1 ~ I had to change the Ecru as it did not show up sufficiently well on my fabric, I still have the left cuff to remove. I tried 712 but this also failed to bring anything to the party so I finally settled on a nice buttery shade (I think 677 ~ but will have to check!) for the alphabet, cuffs, ruffle and petticoat and I'm quite pleased with the results so far. I have stitched my initial in Manor Red ~ this will be my signature on this piece.
I also made a start on a spring pincushion for an exchange that I have signed up for on the Friendly Stitcher group ~ I can't show you anything of this one until after it has been received by my partner.
Monday has arrived all too quickly ~ as usual.
Kate
I attended my first Embroiderer's Guild meeting for the year on Saturday with the lovely C. It was a cold one, no heating in the hall, and a technical hitch prevented us having full view of the slides that accompanied the speaker's talk. That said it was a good afternoon and an interesting subject ~ tapestry weaving. As usual C managed to find some bounty on the sale table and came away with a batch of Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly magazines which she has generously shared with me together with a few american crochet magazines. I found a lovely DMC book which I will share another time as I have not managed to photograph this yet.
Stitching and finishing were slower than I expected ~ On one of the birthday projects I found that some 1/1 work that looked really nice was in fact incorrectly placed and had to come out, this held up progress quite badly. It's hard enough to remove 1/1 but it was stitched in quite a dark colour which left deposits. Once the corrections were made and the addition of one of the final motifs I set this aside ~ I really don't like working on something I feel has become a chore - I shall return to this soon.
My new love, The Sampler Lady by LHN, was given quite a lot of attention as you can see from this photograph.
Aside from changing the actual size ~ I'm stitching 1/1 ~ I had to change the Ecru as it did not show up sufficiently well on my fabric, I still have the left cuff to remove. I tried 712 but this also failed to bring anything to the party so I finally settled on a nice buttery shade (I think 677 ~ but will have to check!) for the alphabet, cuffs, ruffle and petticoat and I'm quite pleased with the results so far. I have stitched my initial in Manor Red ~ this will be my signature on this piece.I also made a start on a spring pincushion for an exchange that I have signed up for on the Friendly Stitcher group ~ I can't show you anything of this one until after it has been received by my partner.
Monday has arrived all too quickly ~ as usual.
Kate
5 comments:
Sounds like you had a nice time at your meeting. The Sampler Lady looks good! I have her in my stash...hopefully she will get a start this year. Looking forward to her progress.
Lovely progres on your LHN. You are very right in saying Monday comes round too quickly.
Nice progress Kate. Your Sampler Lady comes out beautifully.
Bisxxx
Françoise
really lovely my dear! I love it!!!
Argante
It's coming along so nicely. Look forward to seeing your progress.
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