A Busy Saturday!

Well I spent my day at Mrs. Twitchett's Eye for the latter half of my Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery class and what a jam packed one it was too - hope I can remember all I learnt and finish off my class project. We concentrated on the flowers and fillers today. Here is my project so far.

I can tell you that I was a might strung out or up or whatever and I think it was due to the fact that I was looking at the last day of my part time job and feeling rather down but yet excited so a mixed bag of feelings which naturally showed in my conversations!!! LOL! I probably needed a stiff alcoholic drink to settle down but then who knows what kind of stitching I'd do then!

Anyways, Friday night after a short shift at the second job I came home and promptly stitched up a BDE thread holder to cart around and store these slippery but amazing rayon threads (thank you so much Catherine for the eash to follow tutorial) - I was quite pleased with my first attempt and it was ready to take to class with my properly steamed and stretched and dried threads within. But then I decided I needed two more for all my threads (yes I picked up four more at class) and more to come, so I made two more.

They are even colour coordinated to the threads inside - well kinda - the first one is blues and purples, the second is yellow, orange and reds and the slightly smaller one is white, black, brown and greens.

Here's the opened view.

And a closeup of the first one (and this was not all the threads, just those noted for the project) I took to class and the stretchy cord I knotted and used to hold the rolled up bundle - opted out of stitching on ribbons and tying. So guess with this newly acquired experience and the stash of BDE threads I better spend my summer stitching out in the gardens like I used to!!!