The power went off at 8:30 this morning. I patiently waited throughout the day, doing my drawn thread embroidery and getting a lot more done than I had expected to today, until it finally came back on seven hours later at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n
Until now, we have been very fortunate not to have had many power outages\/blackouts. We’ve previously only had about five, and the longest would have only been about an hour.<\/p>\n
Thankfully today’s was during daylight hours, and if I had needed to start preparing dinner before the power came back on, the stove is gas, so we would have been ok.<\/p>\n
Its just part of life in Addis – a part that we had been expecting too – though a part that I hadn’t really experienced much until today.<\/p>\n
Because of the extra stitching time I was able to get to halfway around my tablecloth today, so the stitching is going well. I would like to have all the drawn-thread work complete by the time we go home. I have been doing a bit most days, so I think that is an entirely achievable goal.<\/p>\n
The drawn-thread work is in a wide band near the edge of the cloth. I haven’t yet decided how I will hem it. Its a toss up between a hemstitched edge or a herringboned edging. Either are acceptable for this style of traditional embroidery.<\/p>\n
And no, I’m not yet going to tell you what the style is. That cat is staying well inside the bag for some time yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The power went off at 8:30 this morning. I patiently waited throughout the day, doing my drawn thread embroidery and getting a lot more done than I had expected to today, until it finally came back on seven hours later at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n
Until now, we have been very fortunate not to have had many power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-making-stuff","category-travel","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}