Yesterday I spent the day wrestling with the charts for the projects in “Portuguese Whitework”. I was adding all the tacking information, and arranging and re-arranging them on the pattern sheets.
Today I think I’ll get them printed out full size which will give me a good idea of how its all working, and will mean I can easily refer to them when writing the counted tacking instructions for each project.
I know that I got heaps done yesterday, but it just doesn’t show in the same way that taking photos does!
I got a note from Bree at Anatomically Incorrect Creatures this morning to let me know that spurred on by my post about the taxidermied deer that I saw some time back, she’s finally made a fully hand-stitched, full-size deer head! You can see it on her Etsy page. I love the photo of it hanging above the mantlepiece near the Christmas tree!
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Tidying up charts is one of those necessary things that doesn’t show progress as some other activities do, but once it’s done the next stage will be easier, I know.