starting the next book

I have been just itching to get started on my next book, and have been procrastinating with all sorts of other worthy things for long enough! So I made it my aim to finally get going the other night.

I transferred the folder where I had been collecting things for the book, over to my new computer. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the file for the book to find that there was heaps already in it! I obviously already started it before we went to Ethiopia. Oh Happy Day!

So now I just have to really get stuck into it.

I have finished my embroidery for the “Stitch + Stitch = Magic” exhibition and am really pleased with it. I went up to the local picture framers the other day to get some ideas for how to frame it. I was a bit scared off by the prices as its a long time since I have had anything framed by someone else. I used to work as a picture framer when I was at uni, and even used to teach DIY picture framing at the local community college. I have some of the equipment needed to frame things, but not all.

I got some good ideas at the framing shop, and will probably cut the mats, stretch the embroidery, and do all the innards of the frame myself. I’ll get the framing shop to make me the frame and cut me some glass. Then I’ll put it all together.

As with my two stitch dictionaries, I wonder if the embroidery will surprise some people for the amount of colour it has! I think that people often perceive me as a whitework person. Yes, I do love whitework, and always will, but I do love colour too. Perhaps I had too much white in my life for too many years, so a Colour Period is rather nice.

When I finished the embroidery, I felt a small sense of loss that it was over. Yes, I love the finished effect, but I also loved making it, and will miss adding more to it every few days.

But I have a book to write now. 🙂