Tidbits-May 13, 2009

At the rate my days are going, I am not sure that I will accomplish much. It’s not exactly the Swine Flu but it is flu of some kind, enough to make me miserable for the past few days. After sweating it out under several layers of bedding last night, I’ve finally decided that I will live. My bed side table is a plethora of cough syrups, Ibuprofen and a gazillion other meds. Oh well…such is life.

If that wasn’t enough, both my computers were beseiged by a million emails coming from a Mailer Demon…ha ha…joke. So, after running all types of scans I believe I am free of any and all virus. Honestly, I don’t get it, why would anyone want to waste time on sending out virus, spam and the likes is beyond me. There are many many other things in our world to take care of. Oh well, forgive my rantings.

I had to share some extraordinary pictures with everyone. Carolyn has indeed been extremely busy and sent me some pictures of her blue jeans and shirt that she embellished with Grace III Ribbon designs. Okay, I have to give it to her. That is an awesome idea and something that I would not have thought about. I do love the back of the shirt and I may borrow the idea. If it hadn’t been for this awful cold and flu, I might have been enjoying sewing and embroidering as well. As it was, I did nothing but see the back of my eyelids.

However, I hate to feel completely and utterly pitiful so I did enjoy stitching out a bit of something new this evening. It’s about time that I paid attention to my Studio group. Honestly, I think the ladies are probably the most patient in the world. So, I did sit down and finish off some designs if not a lesson. The lesson is part of the design which I will finish this week. After I finished the design I realised that it was too pretty to just stitch out as a sample so guess what….yup! I made a cushion cover. Am I addicted to cushions or what? Actually, some while back, I had found a fabric called faux Dupioni silk. Interesting, isn’t it. Well, I decided it was time to use it and see how it would work. Also, some while back I had purchased a new embroidery thread. I’m not too keen on the embroidery thread but the fabric worked fine. See what you think?  

The picture came out quite dark than I had anticipated but you can see the design quite well. The thread is polyester but it has absolutely no sheen. I had hoped that it would give the directional sheen in the central flower using the satin stitches, which seems to be all the rage in embroidery these days…but unfortunately, it didn’t do anything. However, when I stitched out the same floral motif using my regular poly thread…Sylko, the difference was amazing. So, question of the day is….is it worth purchasing a large cone of embroidery thread for $2.50 or should I stick to the thread that gives me the results I like? Honest answer please.