Sadly,
I got all behind-hand, because the weather was so awful when I started the
course, and I couldn’t do any rubbings for a couple of weeks, then we had a
leak in the roof, and it rained into the attic and spare room, and things had
to be shifted around, and that took time.
Once
I got going I really enjoyed myself, and I’ve had great fun playing around, did
get discouraged, because I was so slow, and felt nothing was quite working out
as I planned. However, after meeting Sian at the NEC, and looking at all the
exhibitions by such imaginative and talented stitchers, I got all enthused
again, and came back with no money (because I bought too many bits and pieces!)
but lots of ideas. I found the various sketchbooks on show with people’s work
particularly interesting, and they made me realise there is no right or wrong
way of doing things, so I’m doing it my way (I feel I should burst into song
here!) and learning from my mistakes.
One
mistake was hoarding samples, photos, paper etc in a box, because I was a bit
scared of working directly into the sketchbook. It meant sticking in lots of
things in one go! Additionally, if I’d been organised with the sketchbook, and
kept it up to date as I went along, I could have put up regular posts, which
would have been much more sensible.
Instead,
I’m now posting all my work so far (I still need to finish the resolved
samples). I’m trying to post photos of the pages in my sketchbook, section by
section, so it may take a couple of days, and I have no idea how effective this
may be. If it doesn’t work out I’ll post individual pictures and type in the
text!
So
here goes… First up…
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