Postby Harriet » Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:31 pm
Dfirstmil97 used her walker basket to bring out her wonderful collection of skeins of floss for embroidery to show dd. Also a bit of regular cloth (not Aida this time, although she has done a lot of cross stitch) and needles. They had an enjoyable time with a mini-lesson.
I was surprised that she had not continued with the plan she had, decades ago, of transferring skeins as she bought them to the "thread cards" you wrap floss around. (Kind of like the Kon Mari method of storing on end, when these are beside each other like little books, you can see all the colors you have more easily, and maybe avoid tangling.) But she said that just never worked out for her, and she stuck with the skeins, intact, as best she could. I noticed she had no variegated. She doesn't enjoy that the way that dd has. She likes to know exactly what color she's placing.
She showed dd a hand towel project on which she had embroidered what I would call an elaborate oval floral done mostly in the daisy stitch, but the stitches were so small that it didn't seem like the daisy stitch at all. I nearly had to put my nose on it to realize it was simple stitches.
When dd gets good at this and has some pieces she likes, I'll finally pull out my shadow applique embroidery and let her see it, because once upon a time I had gotten really good. I probably should frame it but don't know how you'd do that with the layers Have to think about it.