(original post 9 Mar 2013)
After a few days of staring in terror at nearly $300 in linen, measured a dozen times and MADE...THAT...FIRST...CUT (I suffer from Fear of Shears. Takes me forever to get up the courage to make- that- first- cut!) and got the first piece basted to the scroll rods, and the center and edges of the first section (altarcloth center panel)were counted and marked.
The Giant Skeins Of Silk are on the way (a good two weeks sooner than expected! Thank you, Nordic Needle!) and meanwhile, I have a couple of small skeins of each thread. Time to start the fun stuff!
After a few days of staring in terror at nearly $300 in linen, measured a dozen times and MADE...THAT...FIRST...CUT (I suffer from Fear of Shears. Takes me forever to get up the courage to make- that- first- cut!) and got the first piece basted to the scroll rods, and the center and edges of the first section (altarcloth center panel)were counted and marked.
The Giant Skeins Of Silk are on the way (a good two weeks sooner than expected! Thank you, Nordic Needle!) and meanwhile, I have a couple of small skeins of each thread. Time to start the fun stuff!
First evening, about 3 hours work -with some occasional distractions from "Wire In The Blood"- produced the outline of the altarcloth's center cross -
Evening two, four a total of a little more than 8 hours stitching (and another 3 episodes of Wire in the Blood!) and the center is taking shape-No silver added here yet,still thinking about its best use in this section - you can design til your eyeballs fall out, the actual threads and fabric ALWAYS looks a little different than that pattern graph!
And now for the required-by-the-internet kitty content! Butterbean and Tortellini have been released into the general population with the rest of the Clowder, and are making themselves right at home-