Well my next project is a tapestry hedgepig kit
That will be fun!
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What about the peacock that you spent so long getting the stuff for?
I am waiting for my shin beef, as my hands havenât been up to dealing with it, so am having chicken thighs instead!
Carinthia.xx
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The peacock is waiting
The hedgehog is a kit to practice using my new frame on something that l need not have daylight to work on
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A luminous hedgehog: be this a natteral thing?
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Hedgehogs have been known to drink battery acid apparently without harm. I wouldnât put it past 'em to drink doped strontium aluminate with a happy burp.
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Technical question
Do tapestries go from middle to outside or vice versa?
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Top to bottom Chinese-wise is the way I have seen it done as a rule. My sister -in-law and my aunt both spent a lot of time making tapestry â not the real, woven sort, embroidered ones â and that was how they did them.
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Thank you Fishy
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A project which has been going since (gulp) 13th September has finally reached an end and been cast off (with a bit over 2 metres of dark blue cotton yarn left over).
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That is stunning
I have started the hedgehog and am only able to do a bit as itâs very hard on my eyes so it will progress slowly
Now to play with my sewing machineâŚ
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Coo! That is very fine. Well done, wor persevering Fish.
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The round of the re-knitting of the jumper ought to be at
370sts divided 72, 113, 72, 113
It is actually at 374, divided 72, 114, 73, 115
I think I may simply cheat and decrease one in the front panel, one in one sleeve, and two in the back.
Not that it matters, since I canât start to get the replacement wool needed for the yoke until tomorrow.
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Wow!
I love the way it hangs, & the âdip dyeâ /ombre effect looks fabulous.
I couldnât really see the blue until it was on the model, azzitwere.
The tiny bit left over is like playing Bobbin Roulette with the sewing machine- one either cheers, or curses!
Are you going to put the front edges together, & gently roll it in paper, to store it on a flat surface?
I remember an Elderly Rellie who used to store important (corsets) & beautiful (fabric) between the mattress & the bed base.
This was also the storage place for curtains, & they got pressed as well!
Carinthia.xx
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It is too big to block properly, though I suppose I could do it in sections. I was thinking of rolling with tissue paper between the layers, and storing it as a long sausage at the front of a wide drawer. With mothballs, because it is pure cotton.
I cheated for the bobbin roulette, and got someone to work out the number of stitches I had left in the weight of yarn I had left, then adjusted the final border to fit them â but it was still ever-so-slightly nail-biting.
The total number of stitches involved is 19,632, by the way.
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Yes to acid-free tissue paper
No to mothballs, as the smell is vile, & never quite disperses
There are modern equivalents which smell much better, including cedar wood balls, which you can sand occasionally to refresh
Carinthia.xx
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Or just bits of wood from a cedar of Lebanon which was grown from the one on Shelleyâs grave and used to stand in a garden in Usk until it got honey-fungus and had to be cut down. I grabbed several of the smaller logs from that and carved boxes out of them, and still have the off-cuts and shavings somewhere, probably in the garage in a large old Huntley and Palmers biscuit tin.
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Offcuts would be perfect, Fishy
Shavings are rather more fragile, & could disintegrate into the lovely work.
Scratches shoulder in anticipation⌠
Carinthia.xx
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Anything to protect that beautiful cape
Acid free tissue and a plastic bag would be my suggestion Fishy
With cedar and a spray of indorexâŚ
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I wouldnât use a plastic bag myself, as they can make things sweat, & attract dirt.
There are 2 wooden blanket boxes at Carinthia Towers. The older one was made by the 1st Mrs Câs father, & is used to store blankets.
The much newer one was assembled by me, & is used to store cotton bath mats & the like.
Carinthia.xx
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I store woolen garments in a blanket box with a spray of Indorex
By woolen I mean hand knitted and natural fibre
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