Karen Ruane: April 2016

04/02/2016

five out of twenty

I'm spending a lot of time doing this at the moment. I need twenty pieces of lace cloth for my workshops in France. There are five here but since I took these pictures the number is up to seven. It's doable, fourteen days before I leave. No problem, a couple of night shifts and we're good to go.

I have to go out today......but when I get back I will work on these little books some more, five pages? Five pages to match the five pieces of lace on here....

Read about my new class here....stitch and books and all things embroidery.

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04/01/2016

a pillow pocket

This week is becoming a ''finished pieces'' week.....that's a good thing which means it's been a good week. Two wrapping cloths are finished, (this one and this one) a white silk pocket is finished and now this one is finished. This pocket has a pin pillow in one end....on the left in the top image. It's going to be hard to part with this......and the white silk one...and almost every other piece I have finished recently. I do however get to keep the wrapping cloths, I have had that conversation with myself and it's non negotiable.

Back to this one, there are lots of Suffolk puffs on here, I am beginning to think they may be my new obsession. The pocket section opens on the right in the first image, a pocket big enough for folded cloth...sigh...If I were keeping it that's what I would do with it.