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Yesterday I did some more photography for the book. I had not been completely happy with the photo I had of my sampler. It looked a little washed out and I just wasn’t happy with it. My mum let me have some of her Christmas bush to photograph around the sampler. Christmas bush is [...] I’ve been making slow progress here. I knew that Christmas preparations and end of school year things would interrupt my work, but I just have to keep going! The project instructions are nearly all written up – first draft only, and there are still quite a number of technique step-by-step pages to work on. While [...] Yesterday I spent several hours moving boxes of books after my latest shipment arrived from the printers. There were 122 boxes, each weighing about 13kg. That’s a lot! The books were reprints of “The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion”, “Elegant Hardanger Embroidery” and “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature”. Hopefully that’s enough to last me a long time! [...] I wasn’t particularly well on Friday, so I sat myself down at my computer and got stuck into writing instructions. I didn’t expect to get much done, but the quiet lack of physical activity helped me feel a little better, and I got an amazing amount done! I had the pattern sheets printed out on [...] 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 [...] I had a lovely morning yesterday taking photos of my tablecloth outside at a relative’s place. I always find it interesting seeing how long it takes me to start to “see”. By this I mean starting coming up with interestingly composed photos. Normally I start off with a whole raft of really boring looking photos. [...] Yesterday I took some photos of The Tablecloth for the Portuguese Whitework book. (If you’re wondering why I’m calling it The Tablecloth you’ll need to read older posts to learn how it seemed to go on forever and ever!) I got some photos that I am very happy with, however I’m thinking that I’d like [...] I haven’t really got anything to say today. But I suppose that I can tell you that things are moving ahead with gaining permission to use some photos of real, historical examples of Portuguese embroidery in the book. We edged closer yesterday, and the person who I’ve been arranging this through said that they were [...] I spent some time on the weekend taking more photographs of embroideries for “Portuguese Whitework”. I took delivery of the cupcakes I had ordered from a friend so that I could use them as props for one of my photos. They were absolutely gorgeous, and I was really pleased with how the resulting photo of [...] I had a great time taking photos yesterday. The photo of the handtowel was an absolute gift, with it all coming together easily and quickly. I’d borrowed some props from my sister, and with some rummaging through my own cupboards, came up with a really nice arrangement very quickly. I wrote my instructions and did [...] |
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