I spent much of the morning catching up with emails, ordering the Caterina kit (the one on the cover of the current magazine) from Inspirations and reading the book Junette loaned me, Friends in Stitches about the making of the Australian Quaker Tapestry. I am finding it very interesting. I will hold my comments for another post.
After lunch I put some lamb shanks on to cook slowly and took my SLR, set with the macro lens, out to the front balcony and played at taking photos.
This is a selection of those I liked. I'm not sure yet if any of these will end up as embroidery but there is potential. With the exception of the spiderweb they are all close-up sections of leaves.
This is a selection of those I liked. I'm not sure yet if any of these will end up as embroidery but there is potential. With the exception of the spiderweb they are all close-up sections of leaves.
I had a lot of fun and thought taking these and editing them. I haven't done this in a while.
I had dinner at Katherine and Anthony's place - a very delicious pork roast. It was a most relaxing evening.
I went back this morning, and overlaid the double thread edge of the second Muncaster Orange with a single thread layer. It really helps (thanks Phillipa Turnbull). I find it very difficult to get a tidy, smooth effect with double thread. The purple circle marks the area I had worked with the single thread overlay. You can see the rest of the circle was a bit ragged. I have now been over the whole edge and it is much improved.
As I had hoped, I finished the second Orange today.
On to that tricky ribbon and bow tomorrow.
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