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Embroidery progress; birfday
Feb. 5th, 2019 11:46 pmWe won't add up exactly how many hours I spent over Friday/Saturday/Sunday embroidering, but I did get Suspender No.1 finished! That is to say, the embroidery is finished; I won't actually make the suspenders until I make the trousers, because although I did estimate, these kinds of suspenders are not highly adjustable once made!
Have done a couple of motifs on Suspender No.2, though I did not embroider at all yesterday, it being my birthday and all. Spent it mostly with the Imaginary Boyfriend: we went out to a Nice Local BYOB Italian Restaurant for lunch, bought a bottle of wine to have with lunch like adults, walked the mile and a half home like adults after drinking the whole bottle, and then watched the Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice. Tom, not being a thirty-year old woman nor someone who actually read the books they were assigned in high school English class, was unacquainted with the finer points of the story (i.e. Colin Firth is dreamy, Regency collars make everybody hotter unless they're Mr Collins, and Jane Austen is actually hilariously snarky), so he in fact watched it pretty attentively.
(Yes, we took breaks, I wouldn't make him sit straight through the entire thing!)
Also he now does a mean Mrs Bennet impression..."O MR BENNET! MY NERVES!"
And here's proof of some suspender embroidery! Looks very similar to the sample, if slightly less deranged, we hope. I'm actually really enjoying this...embroidery speaks to the part of my sewing soul that likes all the fiddly little hand-sewing bits of costumes! Shocking, I know.
It doesn't hurt that we've started really nailing down the details for the Young Victoria dinner - rooms are reserved, menus are chosen, picnics are planned. Very inspiring to me! (For suspenders that nobody but me will see...at least until the after-party where I start stripping him to show off what I've made. "BUT LOOK AT THOSE PRETTY SUSPENDERS!")
Have done a couple of motifs on Suspender No.2, though I did not embroider at all yesterday, it being my birthday and all. Spent it mostly with the Imaginary Boyfriend: we went out to a Nice Local BYOB Italian Restaurant for lunch, bought a bottle of wine to have with lunch like adults, walked the mile and a half home like adults after drinking the whole bottle, and then watched the Colin Firth Pride & Prejudice. Tom, not being a thirty-year old woman nor someone who actually read the books they were assigned in high school English class, was unacquainted with the finer points of the story (i.e. Colin Firth is dreamy, Regency collars make everybody hotter unless they're Mr Collins, and Jane Austen is actually hilariously snarky), so he in fact watched it pretty attentively.
(Yes, we took breaks, I wouldn't make him sit straight through the entire thing!)
Also he now does a mean Mrs Bennet impression..."O MR BENNET! MY NERVES!"
And here's proof of some suspender embroidery! Looks very similar to the sample, if slightly less deranged, we hope. I'm actually really enjoying this...embroidery speaks to the part of my sewing soul that likes all the fiddly little hand-sewing bits of costumes! Shocking, I know.
It doesn't hurt that we've started really nailing down the details for the Young Victoria dinner - rooms are reserved, menus are chosen, picnics are planned. Very inspiring to me! (For suspenders that nobody but me will see...at least until the after-party where I start stripping him to show off what I've made. "BUT LOOK AT THOSE PRETTY SUSPENDERS!")
