I wanted to take a picture on something other than a white board or my scruffy table. I actually have another table, a nicer table. That one was in yesterdays picture so maybe in the future. Today though I have laid the cloth on other cloth, embellished cloth, my toe wrap, throw, mini blanket. The contrast is quite appealing I think. The main focus today, the purpose of the cloth back drop is to highlight the added strip of lace hexagons to an edge. They are waiting for another section to be completed and attached.
Now then....who wants a stick of Blackpool rock? I bought you some...I spoil you. I will pick four people at randonm later this week so just say hello! Go on...you know you want to.
What a day...I'm supposed to be in a hurry...I have somewhere to be. I am going here. I haven't been there for 12 years minimum. My son went to London this morning to spend the weekend with his sister so when the kids away the adults play!! There will be candy floss, bingo and donuts. The excitement is mounting...honestly. And yes...my definition obsession continues, can't help myself.
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A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.
I do have quite a bit to say though...hope you don't fall asleep. First the work. I added yesterdays piece to a corner. I am quite pleased with the pictures despite the scruffy table back drop. They show the said corner off really well. There are also dangly things which don't really dangle but I preferred them this way. Next week there will be a video about this piece as in all honesty I do think you get a better sense of it that way.
Second, comments. I try and reply to every comment I get and manage to keep up quite well even if it does take me a while sometimes. It's also a good way for me to have a poke around your blogs and see what you have been up to. But...and isn't there always a but? I do have times, not often but I do when I get a little overwhelmed with mail. One of the advantages of Typepad is that I can reply to comments in the comments section. So my plan? This morning I have replied to every comment I got yesterday in the comment section of yesterdays post. I don't intend to only ever do it that way, I will...... I promise .......get round everyone's blogs at least once a week. Hand on heart I will. Aside from the fact that I think it is only polite I am very nosey and don't like to miss anything, proper curtain twitcher I am and visiting other blogs is a true pleasure. So if you ask a specific question you could check here first to see if I have answered.
Finally.....yes I promise I'm going soon......this week the postman has been extra kind to me. I am so lucky. Don't know why....but I am also very grateful. I received some beautiful lace from Barbara and then out of the blue this morning a loud banging on the door and the biggest surprise I've had for a long time...a delicious fruit cake from Henrietta. I have no words.......
OK...I'm off to Blackpool. Who wants a stick of rock?
Don't faint...second post of the day. Why? Well I can't just leave you with an old video can I, that wouldn't do at all. This is the latest damp stretched piece for my festooned veil/cloth. I am going to attach it tonight and enhance it with dangly things. This piece has an abundance of bullion knots, mirrors and open areas. My cloth continues to grow.....slowly....I'm in no hurry.
When I moved here from the old place I hoped to transfer most of that over here. This is the latest step in that move...unpacking so to speak. It is apt to have this four minute video on here today as it gives a small sense of how Ledgers developed...visiting old sketchbooks, taking something from each of them and bringing it all together. The next run of Ledgers begins in less than two weeks and there are very few places left which is amazing...thank you. Before we start on September 26 you may get to see some of my practice runs on here, a little doodling on camera perhaps.
You will also definitely get to see some of the video from the old place over the next weeks. There are some things I just can't leave behind.
Exciting things are happening over on flickr too. Please go have a look at what the girls are creating in extending embellishment...it is fantastic. Just go here for that. And Sara has started a new group centred around tables, the stuff we have accumulating on them. As you know my own table is always covered in junk!The group has the potential to grow into a fascinating archive of images and the more contributors the better. To sign up or browse then just go here.
Is it just me or is today's offering reminiscent of a public service broadcast? So don't cross the road without looking both ways, don't leave naked flames near upholstery....you know the drill and a pat on the back for me because I didn't forget to upload the video this time!
I must confess that these aren't new pieces but I do have a reason for having them around me at the moment. If you remember a while ago I took everything out of my etsy shop. This morning I have been sorting out, rummaging, deciding which things I need to keep and those I don't. I will gradually start putting the etsy stock on Big Cartel and these two samples went in there about five minutes ago. Who knew that moving blogs, moving shops could take this long, take this much computer time? Anyway...I'm happy. Something else is ticked off the list.
My table proved popular yesterday. I definitely get my money's worth out of that table..we eat on it every day, it extends for big cloth and Christmas lunch, it wipes clean....I wonder if the shop where I bought it would employ me as a promotions assistant??!! There were a few yes please comments to a regular table post, a couple of which suggested a regular day for those. That wasn't what I had in mind though...my own table offerings would be more random. I don't like being pinned down to a day...I almost always fail to keep up, miss deadlines. I am rubbish at deadlines being easily distracted and everything. Sorry about that but it doesn't mean you can't do it on a set day.
Work on my festooned cloth, my veil like structure continues...I continue to love it, adore it, savour every stitch. My concern? You will get sick of the sight of it as I fear it will be around for quite some time.
I am so late...don't know why you bother coming here at all. Just a table today, a tatty table too. These are the things demanding my attention today along with a video camera and some paper work. You know those days when nothing goes to plan? Well that's my day so far. Still what is it they say...''things can only get better''. It's onwards and upwards then and it's not all bad. See that dark thing on the right? I just found that after about eight years!!!! I don't particularly love it or anything but it just feels good to know it survived. And there are similarities aren't there...can you see them?
Then I got to thinking...my table has featured on here quite a bit lately. Maybe I could do a once weekly table post. Pile it with junk a bit like a rummage sale....what do you think?
I love this cloth more every time I add to it....I do think that when it is finished I will need to make another video to give you a better impression of the piece and point out certain areas that don't show up as well in photographs alone.
I draped it over a butty box today so that it would hang better...(there is a definition...any excuse to put a definition on here!!)
I have plans for this afternoon which centre on adding to this, making new sections, new adornments, more hexagons. Technically class finishes this week. My cloth will take longer. I really have no desire to rush this.........I have a desire to savour it.
Remember this? It's now finished, damp stretched and actually, since these pictures were taken it has been added to the main cloth. I have put together a short video in the hope that you will get a better sense of this, the lightness and delicacy. Be warned...the video ends abruptly. That says a lot about why I am an embroiderer and not a film maker.
And in case you missed it, my latest newsletter is now out.....mostly babble but a lovely wedding picture. You can peruse that here. Can't stay long today....I have to go buy an embroidery hoop....I'm wearing them out.
OOPS!!! In my excitement at going embroidery hoop shopping I forget to put the video on here. Told you I was dim.....thanks Deanna! You're a star!
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