I made some progress on my Papillon Creations mystery SAL from 2008, thanks to the sampler SAL on the HAED BB.
This has been a difficult piece for me, I had never done any specialty stitches before when I started this. I’ve spent a lot of time frogging and re-stitching. I’m on part 10 now and this has 12 parts in total, also some beading should be done sometime soon. I actually considered starting to bead the top parts but then I couldn’t decide on the bead colour…
I’m waiting for this book to arrive to the finnish cross stitch online shop Violarium. It was out of stock but there should be more coming in this week.
I just love these old schoolgirl samplers. I have bought two german ones and I’m waiting for them to arrive in my mailbox. They are from 1894 and 1890. I will share some pictures as soon as I get them here. I also bought a pattern for a darning sampler, I have never done any of that either so it should be interesting. I hope there are good instructions included. I saw some lovely reproduction samplers on the Reflets de Soie site but I was good and didn’t buy any…. yet.
I have some money left from my tax refunds but instead of getting stitching stuff I have spent the weekend online buying vintage clothes from the 60’s and 70’s. I have a hard time finding clothes that suit me, I have some serious bloating on my lower stomach because of the endometriosis so I bought some tunics etc. to hide my big belly. It bothers me a lot, people actually think I’m pregnant and it’s embarassing. I had so much fun while looking for those clothes, I actually phoned my mother to ask some questions about the materials used back then and she started to recall all the things she wore when she was young. It’s a shame she didn’t keep any of that stuff.
On my spending spree I also got The Who live in Toronto ‘82 DVD for my ever growing music DVD collection. It was second hand too and I got it dirt cheap. The only downside to online shopping is that I have to wait to get my stuff…
