Flopped on my bed with a fan blowing to cool me . Still too hot for me to be outside gardening .
I've done a little bit more today . The two rosettes .
Actually I spent a couple of hours just embroidering them .
My black DMC embroidery cotton arrived !
So this morning we were over in Falmouth , needed to go to B&Q , but we stopped off at Pendennis Point for a little while . I took my embroidery. I didn't do very much , mainly sat looking at it , thinking which bit to do next .
A bit later on , when we were then home again , I got myself all organised in the summerhouse ......but then it was just too hot ....so I packed it all up again .
I took myself upstairs , flopped onto my bed , windows open with a nice cooling fan on !
I finally removed that extra finger and it looks so much better now !
Not me silly !! 🤣
For those who don't know what I'm on about , I had stitched an extra finger by mistake .... the Angel's thumb is of course hidden behind the handle of the bow .
Next I will do the rosettes on the Rebec instrument .
Is it hot where you are ? We're praying for rain here !
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More road trip stitching . Waiting in the hospital car park .
Waiting in the health centre car park , waiting in the supermarket car parks .. both of them .
Precious moments !
Life is full of little moments of waiting and I make the most of them !
It was hard stitching the odd shapes along the bottom . It is also a bit wearying only using three colours of white , gold and black .
I'm working most of the black areas at the moment .
I need to take away one of those fingers.....the thumb is of course hidden behind the handle of the bow ! A little mistake ! Fiddlesticks ! 😄
......and then I ran out of black thread ! Drat ! Drat !...and triple drat !
Been very busy in the vegetable garden . But there were a couple of appointments to the health centre where I sat waiting in the car and I always have some embroidery on my lap .
Especially nice having an Angel in the car with me .
Halo almost finished .
I think I will be doing some work on the black areas next .
There is more work to be done on the odd yellow shapes both above and below .
We're hoping for some over- night rain , to refresh our vegetable garden and sweeten the air .
Hope you're having a nice weekend .
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I made a little start on the halo and hair this morning . For this I have gone back to using my beautiful Silk Mill embroidery thread . I think I have just about enough of it to finish with . I am being careful with it as I can't get hold of anymore while The Silk Mill is temporarily closed .
Still very hot here . I'm sitting on my bed with a nice cooling fan blowing on me . We should be back to our usual Cornish mizzle next week after a good storm over the coming weekend . 🤗
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I actually bought this ivory silk from a lovely Japanese lady on Etsy . It came all the way from Japan ! I had planned to use it on another much larger medieval piece , but then someone put me off just as I was in the process of preparing it . . . advice to self .. always best to keep your powder dry . 🖤💣💥
My creativity comes to me like the waves of the sea and it was as if I'd missed that ninth wave .
I will go back to doing it sometime .
The phase of the moon and the tide of creativity , however, hasn't completely gone out .........
..... and I'm relishing working on this piece .
So time to pause and have a little recap .
I worked some fairly loose stitching over most of the white areas .
I'm not sure yet whether to stitch the folds of the Angel's robes vertically or horizontally . I had originally thought to embroider them vertically but now I have done the under layer , I'm thinking that I quite like it that way ....hmmm.....I'm reviewing the situation 🎵🎶🎶I think I'd better think it out again !
But for now , I'm stitching those beautiful wings . Did you think I was going to leave them like that ?!
I suppose I could have done them like that ....over and over satin stitch ....would have been a quicker way of doing it .
But nope I decided to make them more feather-like .....
