by Shakespeare's Peddler
stitched on 32 count Vintage Exemplar linen
with Gentle Arts Sampler Threads
This was designed by Theresa to commemorate Egypt's recent struggle for freedom, and sold at the Nashville Market as a limited edition kit. My photo does not do the thread colors justice. They are truly gorgeous.
Theresa finished her's into a small pillow with a chenille trim that suits it to a tee. I'll need to make a trip into town for the trim and some stuffing but I'm hoping to duplicate her finish. I did finally find my sewing machine yesterday, but for some crazy reason I didn't pack the foot pedal in the same box. After spending half the day yesterday digging through boxes and cussing whoever did the packing (that would be me...), I finally gave up and tried to find a replacement online. The only one I found was going to cost me $56! I think of purchases like this in terms of how much stash I could buy with the money, so that just wasn't going to cut it!
This morning I remembered how my Mom used to recite "Baby Jesus, lost and found" when she was looking for something. So I sat down and concentrated on where I thought the foot pedal could be. Baby Jesus, lost and found... Baby Jesus, lost and found... and POOF! it came to me! I knew exactly where it was! I'd stored it in a plastic bin which is why it wasn't in the box with the machine! It didn't take me long to find the bin, and sure enough, inside was the foot pedal! Of course, I'm totally on the hook to actually use the machine now!
No word on the job still. Do you think they found out about the sit-in I staged at my high school back in 1977? Those were good times!
That's about all I have to report today from the hovel. Hope this week has been treating you well!
3 comments:
That is so nice Paisley. I can imagine how good it looks in real life. Computer screens never show the colors to good advantage.
My mother-in-law always tells me to pray to St. Anthony when I've misplaced something. It actually works.
And even if they found out about the sit-in at school, that was so long ago and the job people were probably either sitting near you or having a sit-in of their own! LOL
What a lovely design!! Fingers crossed for the job!!
A lovely finish. Such gorgeous colours. Fingers crossed for the job.
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