Floss (032/365)

TIME: 10:43 pm

PLACE: Kitchen
SUBJECT: Embroidery floss

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I'm planning on doing more cross stitch.  I purchased another pattern from the same Esty shop where I bought the Holiday Visitor pattern to make for DramaQueen's birthday.

The good news - It only takes 3 colors, and 2 are the same colors I used in the previously mentioned pattern.

The bad news - I found out that I must have used up the 2 colors I had when making the other pattern and I don't have the 3rd color in my inventory either.

Story of my life.  A trip to the craft store is in my near future.

Thread Orts (207/365)

 
“Snip snap, good luck trap."

Great-Grandmother Neal (Work Of My Hands LiveJournal)

TIME:  8:24 PM
PLACE:  Desk
SUBJECT:  Embroidery thread snippets

Just as I did last summer, I am doing some counted cross-stitching to sooth my nerves from the children being home all day.  I am catching all of my left over thread snippets in this Ball jar.  I didn’t want to title my post “Left-Over-Thread-Snippets-In-A-Ball-Jar” <== ‘twas a bit long winded for my taste.  Then I remembered that I had seen these before on some stitching blogs.  After a Google search which took me to Flickr, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, blogs about Java thread dumps(?) and beyond, I finally found a blog that described my jar of snippets.  Work Of My Hands wrote a lovely post describing how and why her Appalachian Great-Grandmother collected her left over sewing and embroidery threads.  Now that I know the saying, I will be uttering that verse every time I drop an ort in my jar.

A Fistful of Floss (201/365)

 
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

Herman Melville (American short-story Writer, Novelist and Poet. Best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick. 1819-1891)

TIME:  9:27 PM
PLACE:  The kitchen
SUBJECT:  DMC embroidery floss

Today I got the urge to cross-stitch.  Why?…heck if I know.  The pattern is a sweet Dutch-type design.  It is from this Ondori book I purchased at the book bazaar back in April.  I have always found cross-stitching to be rather soothing and I like watching the picture emerge from the grid pattern.  Counted cross-stitch is orderly and precise and there are grids and numbers involved.  That pleases the accounting/math geek in me!

It's a Crewel, Crewel World (068/365)

 
"I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery."

Lillian Hellman (American playwright and memoirist, 1905-1984), Another Part of the Forest, Act 2 (1946). Spoken by the character named Laurette Sincee. Engaged to marry Oscar Hubbard, a member of a distinguished Alabama family in 1880, she is telling her betrothed of her career ambitions. "Laurette is about twenty, pig-face cute, a little too fashionably dressed."

TIME: 12:37 PM (January 19, 2007)
PLACE: Dining Room 
SUBJECT: Crewel embroidery

I stitched this flower garden in 1977 when I was ten years old.  I attempted to take a picture of this today, but it just wasn't happening.  Then I remembered that I had taken pictures of this embroidery already for my other blog back in the day.  So what am I trying to say?  I'm archiving it today baby.  Yep, day 68 has kicked my ass and I am resorting to an older photo.  Oh, the embarrassment! Oh, the humility!  Nevertheless, the necessity of needing a photo for today trumped any embarrassment of going to the archives.  I do feel better knowing that I DID take many pictures of this crewel embroidery today, but I like this one that I took in January of 2007 better!