Luck, Not Luck, Oops, Tambour Embroidery, and More!
I was very lucky and got the last copy in the bookstore of the book I need for class. Now I get to read 17 pages of a book that tells me how to read research. I am so excited. Really. Woo.
But that's where my luck ran out. I had to buy cat litter and there were no working carts at the store. 28 pounds is heavy. Then when taking the old litter out the bag caught on my shoe, and it really could've been worse, but overall, not pretty.
And all day I thought it was the first. Wrote it on the board, a nurse pass, etc. Good for me.
And I've remembered why I love tambour embroidery so much. I very much don't want to work on anything else at the moment. However, I need to! Six weeks till I need the Holbein dress, I think it is? I can take a little embroidery break. And I just love the pattern and how it's coming out in tambour.
And rather amusing, I just noticed that three of the four things I'm working on at the moment are recreations or at least very heavily inspired by original. The pink sheer, which is done, but still needs details is a mostly (no waistband and darts instead of gathers) copy of an original, the Danish Regency is only different in embroidery stitch, and of course the Holbein. The grey and blue wool is just pulling several popular 1860s elements. That's fine though because I love doing recreations. It's so interesting to try to get as close to an original source as possible. It's fascinating how you can really get inside the head of someone in the past that way--or at least that's how I like to imagine it. Doing the same type of stitches on the same type of fabric for a hopefully same result? It just makes the history major in me feel happy :)
And speaking of history, there's nothing I'd like to do more right now than read, but I know that if I do, doing something that low energy will put me right to sleep. And I really don't want to sleep...
But that's where my luck ran out. I had to buy cat litter and there were no working carts at the store. 28 pounds is heavy. Then when taking the old litter out the bag caught on my shoe, and it really could've been worse, but overall, not pretty.
And all day I thought it was the first. Wrote it on the board, a nurse pass, etc. Good for me.
And I've remembered why I love tambour embroidery so much. I very much don't want to work on anything else at the moment. However, I need to! Six weeks till I need the Holbein dress, I think it is? I can take a little embroidery break. And I just love the pattern and how it's coming out in tambour.
And rather amusing, I just noticed that three of the four things I'm working on at the moment are recreations or at least very heavily inspired by original. The pink sheer, which is done, but still needs details is a mostly (no waistband and darts instead of gathers) copy of an original, the Danish Regency is only different in embroidery stitch, and of course the Holbein. The grey and blue wool is just pulling several popular 1860s elements. That's fine though because I love doing recreations. It's so interesting to try to get as close to an original source as possible. It's fascinating how you can really get inside the head of someone in the past that way--or at least that's how I like to imagine it. Doing the same type of stitches on the same type of fabric for a hopefully same result? It just makes the history major in me feel happy :)
And speaking of history, there's nothing I'd like to do more right now than read, but I know that if I do, doing something that low energy will put me right to sleep. And I really don't want to sleep...