Mostly cross-stitch

[buzzylittleb]

Uhm, not a lot to report here today.

The Form of Evil is gone. Probably have had last school visit of the year.

ONL has now got a big shiny medal of his own. Cover this with Bettany Hughes* calling him a "living legend" and being on the television and he can't be happier.

Other than that, not a lot going around here.

I have just bought Cat

Comments

[scriggle]

Over 1 on 25 count? You're braver than me. That would leave me cross-eyed.

[buzzylittleb]

I've managed to get to 28 over one a couple of times.

[if scrapbook would ever work for me again, I'd show you]

[from the designer's website: this one but the photograph is horrible beyond belief]

I have some 40 lying around somewhere (which is 20 over 2) if I can bloody find the stuff again. At sometime, it managed to escape its paper bag. [it says something when I start thinking that 20ct is actually quite big]

Don't worry, I do most of my stitching in nice proper sensible counts, I just flirt with over-one every so often.

[_inbetween_]

Your expert conversation sounds like goobledeegook (zigouigou sounds sensible to me btw) but I really like that cat and am once again illogically drawn to stitching (never having continued with my recent wool stash or other crafts).

[buzzylittleb]

That sums up my relationship with crewel work. It looks so pretty and nice and tactile, [but the wool shreds, falls to bits, runs out and drives me around the bend], and some how my brain is still drawn in by the pretty, fuzzy texture and the historical design bits...

(so crewel is cruel and unnatural -- boom! boom!)

* crewel is a form of embroidery done in thin wool thread, it has a long history(it's called Jacobean embroidery) and it looks nice with interesting features and a distinctive look. If you see anyone pre-victorian embroidering in movies, it's probably crewel (or should be crewel)