Welcome Dear Damned Ones. Hope you are well.
Things have been going well. My sister has been visiting for two weeks now and it’s been wonderful. She’ll only be here for one more week, but she’s planning on moving in with me in June. I know that some of you might cringe at the thought of a sibling moving in with you, but things are okay here. No worries. And I can outrun her now.
Work on the crocheted lace for my black linen shirt is progressing most enthusiastically. I’m delightfully pleased. The lace for the second sleeve is positively speeding along. Helps that I now know what I’m actually doing. That almost never happens.
Did some practice embroidery for the spider coat. The spider webs that will go on the front of the coat. Probably four of them. I have eight spiders to attach so I can find four other places for webs. I suppose one on each sleeve and maybe two on the back.
The white sample is done with DMC pearl cotton size five.
It’s hard to see the spider, but that’s what that silvery thing in the middle of my terrible photo. And the reddish sample is with two strands of DMC cotton embroidery floss. Little easier to see the spider than on the white.
Decided to do the webs in a darkish red pearl cotton. Need to make the webs bigger with more space between the cross bars, or whatever they’re called. The spider webs are surprisingly easy to do. Child’s play. Truly. The velvet with flannel backing is sturdy enough for embroidery without using a hoop. And they can be done kind of freestyle. I like being able to scatter rules to the four winds and just wing it.
Going to Michaels tomorrow to see if they have a nice red pearl cotton in size five. Was going to match the colour of the webs to the lining, but realized that’s not paramount.
Haven’t done anything on the Dali jacket. Today, I came within a hair’s breadth of actually doing something, but didn’t. Sigh. I think that now that I have the stuff I need and can finally get going, I’m realizing that this is quite a frightening project for me. I want it to be absolutely breathtaking, but don’t think I can do it. All my previous gargantuan-seeming plans have had much humbler endings. Hate that. Must find the gumption to just get on with things. I mean, how bad can they turn out, she asks as she shivers.
And, lastly, did a few rows on the striped rug. Don’t really like it, but going to continue working on it just to have something simple to work on now and then. As a palette cleanser sort of thing. Here’s a picture.
Only done twenty-five rows, so a plethora of rows to go. It’s single crochet with two rows of each black and white with the first three stitches of each row in just black. You can sort of see the black edge part in the terrible picture.
So, Dear Damned Ones, thank you for coming. It’s been a pleasure having you here. Pleasant gothy dreams, or nightmares if that’s your preference, to all of you.
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