A Stable Egg on Fabic . . . Priceless!
Several days of spring temperatures have Dennis out in the yard drilling holes into several stumps. His hope is that remaining winter moisture, that is bound to come, will find its way into the holes and freeze making pressure deep within. It surely can’t hurt.
For me, the day was a teaching day in the sewing studio. I find myself being so stingy with sewing aids that I might as well go back and do from the past . . . sewing carpet rags together. To allow my Damask placemats to lie perfectly flat, I need to have a stronger stabilizer behind the embroidery . . . or use two layers. Yes . . . different weights of stabilizer demand a different price at the till. Silly ole Grammie. Live and learn to stitch another day. Two layers of stabilizer and using a frame of stitches to hold the fabric in the area that will be embroidered made a much better out-come. The plus side is that these several place
mats were prep before I tackled the real deal. The real deal will be embroidering multiple designs on a four foot table runner. I believe it will take about eight egg designs. What would be oh so sad is that when I would work on the eighth design it would go wonky. After these last two days I have a better feel of the stabilizers as well as the threads that I will use.
It is a crap shoot as to what tomorrow will bring to Stauffer Avenue. The wonderful thing is we don’t have to have any hard and fast schedules.