Project three done

After having a week of feeling like I was achieving not very much except driving my kids everywhere (how many of us know that feeling, whether now or in the dim dark past?!) yesterday I had a big win, completing yet another of my five projects.

This one is an Elizabethan style embroidery, with beautiful silks in gorgeous colours, and lovely sparkly gold metallic threads. Yesterday morning I said that I really wanted to finish it by the end of the day. I didn’t think it was likely, but The Gymnast thought I could. In her ignorance she had no idea how much work was still involved, though she turned out to be correct!

I’m now moving on to all the little embroideries for my proposed finishing techniques class. The plan for this class (which may or may not get chosen) is that students will complete some simple cross stitched motifs before class and then in class we’ll make them up into a set of needlework accessories using lots of different construction techniques. Finishing techniques are really scary to some people, and I’d like to be able to give them the confidence to know they can do it themselves, and do it well.

I’m really looking forward to showing you photos of all the embroideries for these proposed classes, but unfortunately they’ll have to remain under wraps for quite some time yet.