Return to Embroidery

Now that the hectic holiday season is over I am back at my embroidery. I have a new chair, which helps, and I'm doing some of my work in the daytime, which is HUGE! Better light, better back, better inspiration and less fatigue. The purple tunic is getting full. I have to remember not to try to do projects on it in very dark colors. They just don't show up. I found some antique linen tea towels, old, heavy linen, and I'm going to do a series of hangings on these. I want to do one for the RL Stevenson poem, Travel. After all, it is what set my mind to travel as a child, hearing my grandmother and then my mother, reciting the poems from A Child's Garden of Verses. So that is my new goal. In the meantime, I have much to do before I go back to SE Asia. I have a mission at Samphan Lane to find some embroidery thread, perhaps silk or rayon, and different buttons, perhaps some nice trims. Who knows what I will find in the rat's nest of alleys and packed lanes? It's taken me two years to think up a valid reason to return there. Now if I can only find it.