Sep 28, 2020

Breaking rules


I do it all the time.  Sally Fiske is the last big girl to be mounted and as I pinned her, something kept catching my horribly dry and scratchy eye.  It seemed to be a light streak on the sampler that moved when I adjusted the piece.  Since I was more interested in observing the linen thread on the edge I never actually looked at its entirety on the foam.  There it was.  That light I was seeing was areas of the 28 count linen that have less density and the white foam was obvious.  

I pulled out a roll of kraft paper and laid a piece beneath.  Much more uniform.  Of course, this is not acid free, but I don't want to make a trip to the framer and have her cut such a large piece of the correct mat board to line this.  As I said, I don't care about 100 years from now.  Nothing was acid free 200 years ago and many samplers have survived.   So it's wrong to do what I plan, but I also feel that precaution is for glorious needlework that will be kept by family.  I have a spray from Krylon that is a matte sealer for paper and art work, nothing like a varnish or coating, and I will use that on the liner.  Don't know if it matters, don't care.  I am in desperate need of my Dove darks and have been for two weeks as I try to lose weight.  It ain't working.  I am still packing my mouth like a squirrel preparing for winter.  Between losing summer, wearing this boot, and Dove free, I'm easily irritated and crabbier than hell.  My dollar store has little bags of Dove but that doesn't help when you buy eight of them.
Here's EF with a few changes to brown and the small section I have left.  I don't want to line the windows of the house with the charted very light and am afraid the brown will be too stark so I haven't decided on that yet.   I want to stick with the same colors used throughout, maybe the dark blue would be best.
Have a good day folks!

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Sep 27, 2020

Anna

Stag Lane Primitives has another spool listing for the Bethia sampler, this time without paint.  Plain wooden spools, same size, if you need one for 40 count Bethia they can be found here.

The final section of EF has had many errors and lots of frogging.  I do like the change to a darker basket and 1837, and I am making more changes from very light to brown.   The blue rather than pink house is looking good and I should finish this project in a day.

 The 70% off framing sale at Michaels ended and although chosen, I couldn't get there to place the order.  My foot is actually much better today and the pin sticking out of my toe will require this fricking boot for three more weeks.

My brother has several cemeteries near his neighborhood and are included in his daily walks.  He noticed for some time the poor condition of the grounds in most of them.  Right in the middle of the smallest, there was overgrowth and briars about 5 foot high and 6 foot wide.  After a while, his curiosity got the best of him and he walked to that spot, only to see a stone through the leaves.  The next walk he brought along clippers and gloves.  Bags of debris and brush were taken to the woods.  The next trip included a shovel for roots, followed by a rake, a bag of dirt, grass seed.  Finally, the walks included a watering can and the grass has filled in.  The person buried there is a fifteen year old girl that passed in 1937.  





A stone to the right is the same name, adorned with a small vase and flowers.  Parents?  Why was her grave ignored for so many years while all around her were groomed?  Not only did family not tend to this overgrowth, but the maintenance company failed to do its job.  Maybe there are no remaining family members nearby but someone is leaving flowers at what may be her parents'.





Her photo is on the stone, the frame was cracked and half was found in the brush.  He glued together what he could and painted the chips.  We know nothing about her or her family.  Since both stones have the same photo feature (theirs is missing) I think they must be her parents which would mean her mother gave birth at age 34.

I'm glad his curiosity got the better of him because it resulted in a very good outcome.

Rest in peace Anna.

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Sep 26, 2020

Alpha - boom

Aren't you tiring of my booming?  I don't have much to go and now that I see the full width, I don't believe the open book flat fold will work because of it.  Too short and wide but I will still try.  If not, one very large but short drum/pincushion.  Using the mylar will hold that shape, stuffing it without support would not work well at all in such a large piece.  Yep.  Big ass drum it may be!



I removed the very light basket and 1837 and plan to use the dark brown for both.  After removing the stitches, I can see the original green linen beneath.  Not sure you can see that in this photo but it's obvious in daylight.  Good to know that the quick dip (maybe even a longer bath) may not tint beneath the stitches.


Have a good weekend!!

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Sep 25, 2020

Two and two

Since I only have a dozen tags, and I forgot that I had to readjust colors and such (I have a new printer), I decided to only do newly uploaded images.

The two tombstone - two sampler tags



Need to sand, stain, varnish, glue and seal.  Maybe a black finish on the tombstones.
Mark cut the top corners to make them more of a tag shape than the square edge.  Not sure which I prefer.  Doesn't matter!!

It's warm today and I plan to park on my swing with ice bag and do nothing.  Next week will be very chilly.
Enjoy your day!
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Sep 24, 2020

Page 5 - boom

I am so glad I toned down the green, I really disliked that strong pink on it and I wish I would have studied the colors first.  I rarely follow the chart colors and would have used more apricot and rust than pink, maybe even eliminated one or two.  But since I had no intention to start over, toning the linen helped greatly.  Usually the DMC is not affected in a diluted and quick dip, but this time the 543 became more pink.   I decided to change the house to the soft blue used elsewhere (in place of more pink) and I think it will be fine.  

I am much more comfortable with what most stitchers consider boring - alphabets and letters.  I'm just not crazy about motif work.

So how will this be finished?  Could be hemmed and just displayed on a table top, hung from a shelf's edge, framed.  But I am picturing this as an open book.  Sort of a flat fold that stands on its own, open with both sides displayed.  The spools with Bethia and ???? can be added to create a little grouping with the "book" and for now, that's the plan.

Carole is finally feeling human, antibiotics seem to be helping.


Have a good day!!


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Sep 23, 2020

Page 3 - boom Page 4 - boom



Rit dye - boom


Red removes green - boom



Surgery - BOOM!!


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