It’s been a very quiet week with The Gymnast at home with winter sickness. I’ve been writing lots of stitch instructions and doing their accompanying diagrams, so there are more pages in the next book looking more full now.<\/p>\n
However, I’ve been a few days without stitching, so it is time to do some more. After the last project (which is nearly finished, but put aside for now) which was very large, I’ve decided I need a small project to make me feel like I’m making more progress. I had a design that I’d been working on a few weeks ago that I was reasonably happy with, so tweaked it a bit and started stitching last night.<\/p>\n
On stitching I quickly found something I needed to change. Then I found that the scale of one of the stitches was too heavy and was drowning the nearby stitches. It needed to be changed. I tried changing it on the fabric, but I got myself all confused. Things weren’t lining up the way I expected them to. It was time for bed.<\/p>\n
With a lot of moving around of elements and fiddling with the design on computer this morning, I think I’ve got it sorted. I’ll start again on a new piece of cloth this morning, and keep the old one as a test cloth for various stitches.<\/p>\n
Now, I have some questions that I’d really like some feedback on. We did discuss this on the Vetty Creations Facebook page<\/a> yesterday, but I’d love your input too.<\/p>\n I’ve been thinking through ideas for projects for the book, and trying to work out what I could make the embroidered articles into. Would you be interested in making an embroidered clock face? The idea would be to make the embroidery, put it in a frame and then mount the clock mechanism in the centre. <\/p>\n Would that be something you’d consider making? Do you think you’d baulk at finding a clock mechanism, and\/or mounting it in the right place (though your picture framer could probably mount it for you)?<\/p>\n