in progress and paint....

All the things I talked about doing yesterday and an old watercolour which I found that has nothing at all to do with the ledger class. I really don't think I have another one of these in me to be honest. 

These pieces (the cloth ones) require work, there is work that hasn't been damp stretched...throws up arms in horror, work that needs more work, huge, ugly and visible tacking stitches but hey, at least you know I'm not idle.

I am actually a little annoyed today and have to get something off my chest. I am not a mean person or a skinflint by any stretch of the imaginations but I HATE being ripped off.

My men folk are going away as you know, they are only taking hand luggage...it's cheaper. Because of security the max liquid allowed is 100 mls..we all know that, no problem I want them to be as safe as safe can be. This morning we went to purchase travel size 30 ml shower gel, shampoo, deodorant. 

I want to know how a cost of £1.09 for 30 ml of any of these products is justifiable when the very same thing can be bought in 200ml size for £1.29??????? (that's 20 pence difference...about 40 cents US)

I HATE BEING RIPPED OFF. It's daylight robbery and I am incensed...just in case you can't tell.

I feel much better now I have gotten that off my chest......

Back to embroidery...my surface with paper, silk and vintage cloth. Can you see it amongst the rest? It needs more work which will be happening soon...in five minutes to be precise.

on my table.....

If you have taken one of my classes you will know that there is a table I use.....a lot. It is always covered with stuff, in progress, finished, cloth, pins...you know. Well this is another table, yes there's two. I take over the whole house basically. It wouldn't make  a difference if I had a huge studio I would still take over the whole house. Not that there's any chance of a studio here, house as small as a cupboard and believe me I still lose stuff. Don't know how I would cope with 20 rooms....

Yesterdays surface has cutwork now, it is worked on a small section of the piece along with some crossed bullions.

If you are wondering where the May newsletter is then I will point out that it is still May. I have weeks....What's holding it up? My fingers are what's holding it up. I will have an announcement but I can't stitch fast enough...

chaos....of the organised kind.

Despite appearances I'm getting there...I think I know the finished pieces I am taking. There are quite a lot of those but too many I would think is better than too few. I have others that aren't yet out of their 'safe places', maybe a wrapping cloth and probably a couple of  artist sketch and embroidery books. Preparation for my demo is under way too. I have paper with hand perforated edges, I have hexagons and I have more fabric cut into hexagons ready to be tacked to paper templates.

The tiny piece of silk embroidery is being extended and that HAS to be finished tonight so I can damp stretch it before I add it to a piece of paperwork... It sounds more hectic than it actually is though. It is all coming together just fine.

In the meantime...kind of a public service announcement. My printer died last week and wouldn't you believe that at that very moment I had lots of people wanting books......so for those of you who are waiting...I collected my new printer this morning. I can't give a definite date at the moment with regard to setting it up and getting it working. Although Sunday is taking up a lot of my time I can assure you that your books are very important to me and I will be on it soon. I will mail you all when it's done......