TAST – A TUESDAY TOO LATE- FEATHER STITCH
Yet again, I haven’t put my heart into TAST – I’m just too busy with TIF and Sumptuous surfaces, and making an ATC and postcard for CyberFyber etc to concentrate. I’ve done even less than usual with the stitch this week. I have taken a photo of my first completed sampler. I am going to do something with all these stitches, but I must confess I’m not feeling too inspired at the moment.
SUMPTUOUS SURFACES
I’ve finished all the flat areas on my sumptuous surfaces piece. I’ve started on the ’sumptuous’ bits now. Most of the lumpy bits I ripped out last night in a fit of pique. My ammonite (buttonhole over a felt shape) was too dark, too big, and badly stitched, so it’s gone! As is everything else except the blanket stitch and French knots in top LH corner…and they may yet go! I am going to disregard the teacher’s advice (Sorry Sharon) and do some beads first. I know it’s a pain to embroider around beads, but I don’t leave any gaps for them otherwise. I think I will at least put the big beads in and leave any seed bead/bugles etc to the end. This piece is going as slow as the evolutionary process that inspired it!
A CASE OF NATURAL SELECTION GONE WRONG….
…or perhaps it is just a matter of time. Yesterday afternoon at 3 pm we were outside the school….the usual cases of road rage …. mothers in 4WD,s (SUV’s) screaming and ranting for the last parking spot, the standard 3pm Brisbane summer thunderstorm, lollypop ladies in bright yellow and orange rain coats ankle deep in oily water trying to maintain some sort of order on the pedestrian crossing, thousands more cars than usual because the council in their wisdom decided to close a major thoroughfare recently to repair the bridge (fair enough) and closed the adjacent road as well because the NIMBYS (Not In My Back Yard) who live on it didn’t want all the extra traffic (aarrgghhh )….. I’m glad we walk.
Anyway in the midst of this school afternoon chaos… what do we see but a woman with a kid in a stroller holding a dog leash with no dog in it. And there is this STUPID dog wagging its tail and grinning (the way some dogs do) as it backs out into the traffic and away from its owner! Luckily the intersection was gridlocked, as it could have been run over about 7 times just when I was looking. It took a step backwards every time its owner took a step forwards – she didn’t want to leave the kid, and was pretty much at a loss. The dog decided to prance (there is no other word for it) across both lanes of the road dodging around the cars. Eventually a woman opened the door of her car and called the dog over. It leapt into her car like a long lost friend and she pulled over to the side of the road to deliver it back to its owner. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued on their way. Now if natural selection was working that dog should be road kill. I bet there is one sad dog this afternoon when he is left at home.
GREEN BLOGS
I am a little bit green and I am discovering, when I can drag myself away from needlework blogs, that I am not alone. A couple of green blogs I have recently found and like are:
No Impact man was doing a yearlong experiment to have net environmental impact while living in NYC. Unfortunately I didn’t discover him earlier, but he is still writing good green stuff. Green as a Thistle is living in Canada and is making one green change per day. Again – unfortunately she is up to day 340 or so, but interesting posts, and archives. Crunchy chicken lives in Seattle and is going green with her family. She is running some challenges – so if you want another challenge – try the no waste challenge… last year you could have taken the Diva cup challenge! These are all very engaging writers – well worth a read, even if you are only a pale minty sort of green……
