The Damned Are Welcome Here

Welcome, Dear Damned Ones. Thank you for coming. I am most honoured by your presence.

Did get a wee bit obsessive with a YouTuber I just found. It’s Book and Paper Art. Spent a little time down that rabbit hole. She has two hundred and some videos, almost three hundred, so I’ve been in danger of a very deep rabbit hole indeed. She has a wonderful technique for turning paper napkins into paper that you can use as, well, paper. By just adding a cornstarch paste to both sides of one sheet of the napkin (she separates the layers), it stiffens the napkin which makes it nice and sturdy. In another video, she shows how to stitch a little book together. I will definitely be watching more of those. She also has a website: bookandpaperarts.com which includes free stuff. There are lots of pretty pictures that have been scanned and you can just print them off. So glad I found her.

Now, on to the work I’ve completed in the last two weeks. Almost finished the lace for the left sleeve. Couple more rows and it can be attached to the shirt. Wanted something to sparkle up the lace and found some red, just the right size, sew-in rhinestones for eyes. Didn’t buy enough, of course, so had to go back and get a couple more packages. Forgot about the skulls I want on the lace at the neckline. They need rhinestones, too. Wanted some small red beads for the crosses, but couldn’t find any I liked.  Will look online. Possibly Beadazzle.

Here’s a couple of my usual terrible pictures of one of the skeletons:

And:

Started the spider webs for the spider coat. Being the clever person I am, was smart enough to check my other coats to see which side the buttonholes were and that was the side to make the spider webs. I’m a girl so buttonholes are on the right. Now, I was quite proud of myself for remembering to check this. Unfortunately, by the time I started embroidering a web, a whole three minutes later, I apparently forgot this and started stitching on the left side. Shouldn’t be surprised, should I. Short-term memory is the first to go. Okay, so had to take that stitching out. Fortunately, didn’t mess the fabric.

Here’s another terrible picture:

This one is particularly bad, even for me. Sorry. Don’t know why it’s so blurry.

Now, as for the Dali jacket, well, again, sorry, have only done one little thing. I pinned one of the pictures to the jacket. Doing the actual slow stitching is next. I will have some of that done by the next post here. I promise. Really I do.

So, thank you for coming, Dear Damned Ones. Hope the hijinks of your life are pleasing to you.