04.08.11
Posted in GoldenCircleDesigns.com at 4:11 pm by deRomilly
Spring Violets for my birthday!
Unfortunately I spent yesterday with the EO at a doctor’s appointment and didn’t get the work done that I needed to have done yesterday. So I spent this morning getting my page for the Online Needlework Show up and ready for the show next week. It opens on April 14. (Go see it. Then call your local needlework shop and make sure that they have signed up and are prepped to order for you!)
And then I spent the afternoon at the DMV getting my driver license renewed, because I’d put it off until the last minute. I neglected to realize that the kids had early release today, so going after noon was a bad idea — every teenager in the town was there trying to get a learner’s permit or first license. It’s a small office. But really, I was in and out in about a half hour, which isn’t bad for the number of kids, (with their parents panicking).
And now it’s five pm. I decided I wanted steak and baked potato for dinner, so I bought it. I’ll cook it, too. I have a very specific idea of HOW I want my moo-cow tonight, so the husband’s still off the hook for cooking.
It is also Mary Corbet’s Birthday. Over at Needle -n-Thread, she’s giving away a lovely package of a needlework kit and supplies. This is actually a giveaway I signed up for… see how much I love you all? I’m lowering my chances by telling you about it. Go sign up while you can. 
If you’ve never been there, take the time to explore… she’s a fantastic teacher, and her freebies are to die for, not to mention the giveaways. Heck, if you HAVE been there before go explore!
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04.05.11
Posted in Stitching Genres at 9:00 am by deRomilly
Mary Corbet of NeedleNThread.com posted this yesterday, and I can’t say it better… So… WOW. Just wow.
I am in awe.
Embroidery on REAL eggs!
I’ll be back again with a real post later this week.
But WOW!
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04.01.11
Posted in Finished Projects at 9:13 am by deRomilly
Stitching I found at Dad's apartment
We finished cleaning out my father’s apartment last night. At Christmas he sadly told me that he had finally thrown out the pencil holder I made him out of contact paper and an orange juice can back in kindergarten. It had finally fallen completely apart. Or maybe his cat ate it. I can’t remember the details.
But while sorting through the various pieces of ham radio gear, metal lathing tools, and other such, we found three pieces of embroidery that I had done for him over the years.
The biggest is the cross stitched sailing ship I gave him for his birthday one year. It’s the one and only pattern I ever did from a color chart, and it’s the ONLY color chart I will ever use. No design, no matter how beautiful, is worth the pain I went through trying to identify various shades of brown in that pattern!
Embroidered box in perle cotton and plastic canvas
In addition, there is the matchbox style box that I made from plastic canvas and perle cotton. He used it to store q-tips in, and obviously pulled on the edge to open it rather than pushing it through the box… The inner box is starting to fall open from use.
And there’s the small sampler I knocked out from scraps in my stash when I wanted to give him a father’s day present and was unemployed.
Sailing band sampler in Caron threads on old polyester lugana
Not needlework related, there’s the pencil portrait of my mother that I did for him while we lived in California.
Small pieces, mostly. Well loved. He preferred things from me that he could use.. and didn’t really want or need a lot of “things” around him.
I miss him. And it’s hard having these things, as well as his Christmas sweater around right now, although I’m sure I’ll change my mind about that as the heartache starts to heal.
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