One Month Later

Well exactly one month has past since I last opened this blog. It was busy with all sorts of things from family to health issues to Covid shots and yes creating.

There are several things coming up. Once I decided on the order of priority things always seemed to go smoother. Believe it or not I couldn't move forward with my art until I settled the irritation otherwise know as Robert's Stag. I considered everything from covering it over with branches and other shrubs in order to conceal the fact that it wouldn't lay flat. The stag's body was distorted and rippled in all the wrong places.

In the end I stitched contour lines, enough to tame his wayward girth! No one else seemed to be bothered but I lost too much sleep over it.

 Now I feel I can ship it out to the intended owner, my brother in law, Bob.

After that I could finally turn my thoughts to the trunk show For the Grand guide in Fergus. Covid made this a year overdue. By then, doing things via Zoom and PowerPoint became the norm so it was sink or swim with that one.

By all reports everyone was very pleased even though I was plagued by the internet devil and lost my connection a couple of times. Seems it happens more often than I suspected. With everyone home, traffic is really heavy. At least that's the explanation I'm going with.

So now I'm staring a Workshop via zoom in the face and after that experience with my internet connection I wasn't really happy or confident about trying to maintain a 5 or 6 hour connection. So a short consultation with the IT/zoom host if the Brampton guild we decided I would prep the presentation and send it to her to run from her machine to her guild.

But as I started to work that out in my head, stills, short youtube bits, I came to the conclusion I would have to do what I really had been trying to avoid...remake the piece they were asking for. Deer Park.

So after rebuilding the 'studio' in a more compact and Logical way (to me anyway), I started filming today. After it's all complete then I can edit it down to instructive bits that I can talk over and about. Seems pretty straight forward now. And I have a full month finish it.

(Oh and BTW that's the morning program...we're starting a second one in the afternoon session....)

Today I started remaking Deer Park. This is no longer in my possession but thankfully I have LOTS of photos for me to work from and can reconstruction the steps and the order. Today I finished the first layer up to netting and pinning for the first and biggest thread work, anchoring all the organza and thread.

It's half pinned. Getting to this point took a few hours. I can stitch whenever I get a chance over the next few days as there is no rush.

When you've made all the decisions it's much easier to relax and enjoy the work. 

Oh and then there's the Art Exhibition I've arrange for my art group at the public library, May and June, but that's another story.