![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I need a textile art icon
Jan. 21st, 2011 10:00 pmHas it really been two weeks? How time flies.
I spent most of the last week alternately trying to write and committing random acts of housework. Very stressful! But I am now caught up on all my writing stuff, so this weekend I can just to housework. Well, housework and reading and a few other fun things--I have to relax a little, after all.
Last Saturday I girded up my loins, grabbed a flashlight and went up to the attic in search of my embroidery stuff. I don't know why, except that I had searched everywhere else and it wasn't there. While looking around I found a box of yarn I had forgotten I had (and why was it in the attic anyway? Why not with my other boxes of yarn?) and moved by some dim intuition I burrowed deep into the bottom of the box and there was my embroidery bag. No, I have no idea why I put it there.
Tonight while closing the drapes in the living room I was seized with a strong fancy and rummaged around in a pile of oversized paper back books and found the rest of my embroidery transfer books. This means I now have two copies of the Pennsylvania Dutch book, but looking it over I recalled how much I liked it's strongly stylized designs, so that is ok. There were a few others, as well as the Ancient Egyptian stencil book that Karin and Ami gave me a few years back. While it will take a bit of effort to turn the into embroidery designs, I'm pretty excited by it, because I think that a few of the Egyptian designs would be really nice on some casual summer wear.
In the meantime, going through my yarn boxes has reminded me of all the cool yarns I have saved up. I simply need to learn how to ride a bike and crochet at the same time; otherwise I'll never get all the things I need to get done, done.
I spent most of the last week alternately trying to write and committing random acts of housework. Very stressful! But I am now caught up on all my writing stuff, so this weekend I can just to housework. Well, housework and reading and a few other fun things--I have to relax a little, after all.
Last Saturday I girded up my loins, grabbed a flashlight and went up to the attic in search of my embroidery stuff. I don't know why, except that I had searched everywhere else and it wasn't there. While looking around I found a box of yarn I had forgotten I had (and why was it in the attic anyway? Why not with my other boxes of yarn?) and moved by some dim intuition I burrowed deep into the bottom of the box and there was my embroidery bag. No, I have no idea why I put it there.
Tonight while closing the drapes in the living room I was seized with a strong fancy and rummaged around in a pile of oversized paper back books and found the rest of my embroidery transfer books. This means I now have two copies of the Pennsylvania Dutch book, but looking it over I recalled how much I liked it's strongly stylized designs, so that is ok. There were a few others, as well as the Ancient Egyptian stencil book that Karin and Ami gave me a few years back. While it will take a bit of effort to turn the into embroidery designs, I'm pretty excited by it, because I think that a few of the Egyptian designs would be really nice on some casual summer wear.
In the meantime, going through my yarn boxes has reminded me of all the cool yarns I have saved up. I simply need to learn how to ride a bike and crochet at the same time; otherwise I'll never get all the things I need to get done, done.
