A Welcomed Rain
Yesterday and into the evening we had rain off and on. Nothing with winds, but not lacking on lightning or thunder. I believe 2″ is what we did get. Well after midnight lightning was going on in the northwest. It wasn’t surprising that this morning was cool and gray. After I came back from my walk this morning, I did check out our backyard. It seems as if everything greened out overnight. No . . . I was not enthused enough to try to do anything outside. My feet and shoes would have held me down literally with mud. I headed in and down into the sewing studio.
I have all my ducks in a row for the task that I have coming into the sewing studio later this week. Playing with embroidery designs takes patience and a goodly amount of math. It’s not totally like fitting a square peg into a round hole, but close. I had a selection of designs and until I stitched out one of them I would have no idea as to how it would work. I used this kitten design as a prototype. The detail was good. The colors I chose were good. The 18,000 stitches into a 3″ x 3″ finished product was not good. The design ended up hard and certainly not conducive for a soft white dishtowel. The design was downloaded onto my laptop
and I began working with it. For a large dishtowel I felt a design that would be 5″ or 6 ” would look as if it belonged on a 36″ square dishtowel. After playing around with it on the computer screen, I downloaded it to a flash drive and plugged it into the sewing machine. Embroidering just for the sake of doing it is not my thing. I want a good balance of design and what it will be stitched onto. The same 18,000 stitches on this design turned out well and I now know that the remaining collection will also need to be adjusted. The end result was a soft, pliable, stitched design on an equally soft dish towel.