This is what I was so excited about yesterday. Three pieces of lace cloth that I made on Monday. They are quite small, the stitched area is approximately 5 x 7 inches but I was very pleased I got them done. Two of these are made with lace and metallic silk tissue, the other with some scraps of silk velvet and some deep gold coloured, (kind of) lace...I think that colour scheme suits one of the recipients better. They are gifts....so I now have one piece to send to Veronica and these three to post. I best get some envelopes bought.
Today I got up late....I really hope the childless situation doesn't turn me into some kind of idle wastrel....
wast·rel
/ˈwāstrəl/
Noun
A wasteful or good-for-nothing person
I need to be on the ball tomorrow...it's cabinet shopping day. I'm not going until late afternoon but can I really justify treating myself if I can't even get my backside out of bed in a morning?
I've also got my eye on this.....light and fresh for lounge curtains????? What do you think??? On the plus side it's cheap.....
OOPs, I'm a bit late today.....did you think I had been checked into a home for the bewildered and childless? Not quite, not yet. I have been to the Podiatrist. I now have the prettiest feet in the whole of Lancashire. Empty nest syndrome still exists...not in a crying way, more in a confused and aimless way. I wander, wondering what's different, what is missing. On the plus side I have less dirty washing, less washing up after eating, more actual food in the cupboards and less wet towels from numerous showers no longer taken. More on the plus side than the minus side then. It's onwards and hopefully upwards from now and it is almost Thursday.....cabinet shopping day....
Today's pictures are of tiny little pretty lace frills, in strips, along with French knots and assorted embroidery stitches on white silk. I have plans for these...can't tell you yet. If I tell you I will have to kill you. Yesterday afternoon was amazingly productive. Not with this piece but with something else that I plan to show you tomorrow. I am hoping that the sun continues to shine for at least another 30 minutes so I can take photographs.
Thank you so much for all the comments and e mails yesterday. I appreciate each and every one and I am positive...I'm not sad. It's just going to take a little getting used to is all....
What a funny day. What a funny feeling. It is the first day of the rest of my life, life as half of a child free couple. I don't quite know what to do with myself. I can do anything, anything I like. When I used to crave time I could always think of things to do....today...my mind is blank.
I know, my son is an adult, a self sufficient adult. He left. What's the difference? The difference is I have nobody to be a mother to on a daily basis. I am no longer needed to take him to work every morning and bring him home every night. That task was done on a voluntary basis by me. As was making him chicken pasta to take for his lunch. He was perfectly willing and very able to do those things for himself. I however loved being a mother, loved doing things for him. I know I will love the new life I can now have, it's just going to take a little getting used to.
Thursday I am going cabinet shopping. I have plans to change the house round a little, add some long wished for furniture that I now have room for. I need my husband home to move things....sadly he is working non stop now until Wednesday evening. I am home alone so to speak. Not a bad thing but something that prevents me moving furniture. Never mind, I will be patient.
In the meantime I can finish the pin pillows, make more lace cloth. I am already ahead with video for class but I can make more, get further ahead. I can sit myself down and think long and hard so the new reality sinks in. The last one is probably the most urgent....
This weekend my daughter came home overnight. Yesterday we went ''up North'' to see family so they don't forget what she looks like. Next time they see her she will be a married woman. We spent the day at the beach, my mum has hired a caravan there for a week to take my nephews on a little holiday. It was a brilliant day....I love those boys to bits. There are photos from that on my Instagram
So all that's left to do is put my brain in gear....give myself a shake, get my sewing machine out, make more lace cloth and speaking of lace cloth....the winner of that is Veronica....I am so sorry you couldn't all have some, truly I am.
More surface embroidery, a pleasure to create, easy stitching whilst relaxing on the sofa with my feet up. This is the calm before....not the storm.....the excitement? the commitment? the investing of time and energy into simply stitch 2 which begins on Monday. It's not too late to sign up. Just look here and peruse for a while if you are undecided. If you are signed up then you should have received your password and things by now. If you haven't then PLEASE let me know.
This weekend? It will be busy. Son and heir moving out. Family gathering on Sunday. And did I mention that my little girl is coming home tomorrow? Big smiles all round.
Next week? Cabinet purchasing. Sorting cupboards out. Numerous trips to the council refuse dump. Clean space. New rooms. New cabinets...did I mention that one already? Can you tell I'm excited? A few lazy, long lie ins in bed? Oh I hope so......
A promise is a promise. I have made you a very short....3 minute.....video about the new pouch. It's white. I used silk. I used metallic silk tissue. I used vintage lace and new lace. There are French knots, bullion knots, web stitches, running stitch, stab stitches, buttonhole lace. There are also plenty of frills and flounces.
Aside from embroidery I have this on my mind (what do you think? a suitable replacement for a son?) and an upcoming trip here, a family thing on Sunday. It's just for the day...I am not leaving home...honest.
Pretty pictures that I promised you yesterday......pin pillows, three tops finished, a fourth in progress, backing required on all four and then we have lift off. I am not making any more of these for a while. I don't want to tire of them. I don't want it to become a pin pillow production line here, fresh, new and exciting is what I need.
That will reflect my life at the moment. My son moves out at the end of this week....the end of an era. I will miss him, of course I will but I am excited at what this means for me and my long, embroidery related suffering husband. We will have more room, we can make changes, get new furniture...not lots of it but one or two pieces we will now have room for. (don't tell him but mostly it will be glass and cabinet form so I have somewhere lovely to keep yet more embroidery related stuff............ shhhhhhh)
So pin pillows will be extinct for some time....I'm hankering after humungous, human sized pockets. What do you think?
I did it...phew...a very short video, 3 minutes showing this piece of cloth and how I use it in my work. If you want it...a comment that's all...say anything.....I can take it.......thick skinned...almost impossible to offend that's me.
Now that's done.... so far today has been much less hectic. Up to now and please note it is before lunch here..... I have made 3 videos, yes I know, I'm very pleased with myself. I want to make more later, I am on a roll and planning ahead. I continue to await the arrival of a vacuum cleaner and a fridge freezer but as yet can still make it to the door for air. There has been embroidery going on too, last night, something very pretty that I hope to show you tomorrow. If you are on my pin pillow waiting list then you may hear from me very soon.
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Wow, thank you for the response yesterday. I think I can assume you do want a little scrappy piece of my lace cloth. I am flattered, really. Yesterday wasn't the actual give away...neither is today. I'm not dragging this out on purpose I promise you but there is so much going on at the moment...as evidenced by my list for today. I don't want to just say here it is...leave a comment...I want to make a little video explaining what it is and what you can do with it, (aside from using it to wash the dog). I hope that will happen in the morning.
The reason for the upheaval here is that my son is moving out on Friday, into his own place, a place he has bought with his girlfriend placing him in debt for the rest of his days. I am proud, he saved so hard to get the deposit together, both of them did. However in the meantime I am taking delivery of various household appliances and domestic related items that are filling my little house up rapidly....The car? No I'm not taking delivery of one of those...I had to take mine to the garage. That is the one thing that has been ticked off the list this morning.
Tomorrow...I have a lot invested in tomorrow. I WILL make a video about the lace cloth. I WILL make a video about my latest pouch for later in the week...tomorrow...don't let me down.
I'm late, sorry. Did you think I wasn't going to turn up? I've been everywhere today....you don't want to know. Yesterday however was more productive, I was back to making lacecloth. I did have an idea once upon a time that I would make lots of this cloth and sell it by the half yard. That hasn't happened. The best laid plans and all that. I am using so much of this lately that it's hard to create enough for my own needs. Then I was wondering should I give a little bit away...a give away. Would that be a good idea or would it be like me foisting my tat off on you? Would anyone even want it? I do have a small piece of this which is all white, lace and silk tissue combined, that's the piece I was maybe going to give away. I am still pondering on that one....If I decide it's a good idea and I don't get inundated with mail begging me to keep my rubbish to myself I will think about doing that later this week. Meanwhile it's going to take all my effort having a full day where I am not required to leave the house.....
