A Bit of Embroidery from St. Pete!

Awesome design by Corvus!

I wear this sweatshirt every. Freakin'. Day.

I am terrible at this.

But I am not terrible at this:

150 yds of silk thread and a few almost-blistered fingers later, I am ready to sleep.

Today was gross.

I felt icky and vomitocious all day, so I skipped going to get blood drawn this evening and just came home.

The only things that will make situations like today better are reading some Game of Thrones, cuddling up on the couch to watch Seinfeld with the boy, and

 

working more on Joan.

I need to take better pics of her... All of her skin is done in microscopic single-threaded backstitch and stem stitch. 

I really need to remind myself that these are towels, not museum pieces. Nobody cares if her ear stitching is the sort of thing that I really should be doing with a magnifying glass.

But it still makes me so proud.

The next project to tackle with some embroidery is a project that is much bigger. Roommate and best friend/best man Alex is a gifted cartoonist, who has developed a family of characters that (fictionally) reside in the crazy turreted house at the end of our street. They are rather Addams-like in tone, but much angrier and more neurotic. I have a series of embroideries planned, so that he can have someone do something with these characters. I don't think that I will be able to make all of the smaller, individual portraits before we move to foreign parts, but I want to see if I can get a group portrait done by his birthday. Blamsfords, here we come!!

Accomplishments of the Day:

1:Day from hell at work, where everything went wrong

BUT

Decided not to care too much.

And that made all the difference.

2: Went through 200+ applications for stockperson jobs (not technically my job, but something that we have figured out that I am quite good at doing) and narrowed down the search to nice people who know how to do the job for interviews over the next few days. It feels nice to potentially be able to offer a good person employment, and to have a supervisor that I am not overly fond of let me do something I am good at AS WELL AS admit that sometimes my judgement is better than hers.

and

3: Joanie got a face/Outfit:

 

Looking good, Joan. Looking good!

Lazy sluggy day, full of stitching!

In the best possible way.

I've been embroidering all day on my Joan Holloway/Harris towel:

Still working on Joanie...

but the typewriter is finished!

Embroidery is perfect for sluggy days.

I think that I am falling in love with stem stitch. It looks so ropey and pretty... It is funny that it took me YEARS to figure out how to do it. Now I can't stop!