My Joy is Complete

I was so excited this morning to get the Cabinet of Curiosities lesson 6.  It was more than what I hoped for.  I knew we would get directions for the bug and that it would probably be made into a pin pad.  I thought it would be worked the same as the Butterfly pin pad kit.

No!  It is done in tent stitch.  With a technique I haven't tried before.  Cool.  You outline each part with a dark thread then fill in with tent stitch.  I want to try it.  I didn't know that they didn't have charts back in the 17 hundreds and so this is the way they stitched.  Who thought up charts anyway?  Then there is a second project to do.  A tiny glove with a stitched cuff.  The glove part is made out of ultrasuede.  I can't wait to try that too.  I haven't finished with my little experimental bug.  This lesson gives me more ideas on ways to finish it.

I got distracted yesterday.  There are several CA Wells kits on ebay (be still my heart) so she is on my mind.  I happen to be looking through some of the patterns that I have of hers and came across the Ring of Roses.  I thought, I should try that for the cartouche for the retreat (next week!!)  The pattern calls for Soie d'Alger silk.  So I went looking on the internet for a conversion chart to DMC as I don't have many skeins of that silk.  I even looked up how to pronounce "Soie d'Alger": swah -doll- zhay.  So then I had to go looking for floss.  That is always frustrating, trying to find the color I am looking for.  So finally I got started.  I didn't measure what size it is going to be.  I cut a piece of 32 Sandstone to try it on.  So far, so good.  It is a little smaller than the original cartouche design.  But we will see how it turns out.

I put in one flower in the basket of Flowers of the Needle.  I didn't get very far yesterday.

The bathrooms are clean and I'm ready to party.
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