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schedule madness and embroidery geeking
Sep. 20th, 2005 10:09 amToday seems to be somewhat more sane than yesterday, thank goodness. However, this morning I was enough of a slug that I forgot to make tea until I didn't have time to do it. (That's what I get for going to bed at 9:30 last night and sleeping straight through until my alarm went off.)
On Saturday I went and bought most of what I need to finish my current embroidery project. I'm working on a section that's all metallic gold, which is of course giving me fits, but at least I expected that of it. Satin stitching with it works fairly well, at least. I'm trying to figure out how to get a queen stitch in metallic gold to look good on both sides; it's supposed to be symmetrical, but the left side doesn't come out correctly. (I almost said "the left side doesn't come out right", but I'm sure some helpful person would have told me it's not supposed to.)
I also bought the pattern for the next project (Spanish Wine Sampler), which is on 36-count linen. It's going to be gorgeous, but I'm going to go blind in the process. At least there isn't any white in it. (Hmm, I wonder how it would look on black? Does 36-count black linen exist? I should look that up.)
Half of me wants to prove I can do this job on a permanent basis, and the other half wants to wash its hands of it as soon as possible and hopefully go on to something that doesn't involve having to reschedule meetings for three months from now because that's the first available time.
On Saturday I went and bought most of what I need to finish my current embroidery project. I'm working on a section that's all metallic gold, which is of course giving me fits, but at least I expected that of it. Satin stitching with it works fairly well, at least. I'm trying to figure out how to get a queen stitch in metallic gold to look good on both sides; it's supposed to be symmetrical, but the left side doesn't come out correctly. (I almost said "the left side doesn't come out right", but I'm sure some helpful person would have told me it's not supposed to.)
I also bought the pattern for the next project (Spanish Wine Sampler), which is on 36-count linen. It's going to be gorgeous, but I'm going to go blind in the process. At least there isn't any white in it. (Hmm, I wonder how it would look on black? Does 36-count black linen exist? I should look that up.)
Half of me wants to prove I can do this job on a permanent basis, and the other half wants to wash its hands of it as soon as possible and hopefully go on to something that doesn't involve having to reschedule meetings for three months from now because that's the first available time.
