Stitchery
Among the many things that janetl assisted with while visiting was helping me acquire A New Thing To Do. She is a master (imo) of counted cross stitch and has done many magnificent and amusing pieces. So she assisted me with starting from a five million year old kit that Mark had given me (after deciding that almost everything about the kit was rubbish), and then setting me up with a round thingie (hoop?) and cross stitch fabric of her own, I painfully got a few rows done. Tonight I carefully got a few more done.
It requires serious light to see the exact hole the needle is supposed to go into. To make sure you aren't splitting the itty bitty threads, and to make sure that you are making the x's go in the same direction (left -->right) every time. I don't have a good enough lamp, so a little bit of good daylight is doing for me now.
Believe it or not, this will, I swear, eventually look like a winged red Welsh dragon. See, I've already started the downward swoop of the front leg...
Of course, a little thing like this, while amusing, isn't the sort of project that stirs the blood. What sort of thing would thrill me? Glad you asked.
Yes that's the right. The Bayeux tapestry. And of course, you can get kits...
It requires serious light to see the exact hole the needle is supposed to go into. To make sure you aren't splitting the itty bitty threads, and to make sure that you are making the x's go in the same direction (left -->right) every time. I don't have a good enough lamp, so a little bit of good daylight is doing for me now.
Believe it or not, this will, I swear, eventually look like a winged red Welsh dragon. See, I've already started the downward swoop of the front leg...
Of course, a little thing like this, while amusing, isn't the sort of project that stirs the blood. What sort of thing would thrill me? Glad you asked.
Yes that's the right. The Bayeux tapestry. And of course, you can get kits...