Plight of fancy

The headcold from hades is still in residence.  My head is thrumming like an overfull water balloon and might actually feel better if it just got on with exploding messily.  *sigh*

Planning on heading back to work tomorrow despite the Dr.'s excuse.

Have been sleeping and coughing and sleeping and honestly not feeling much like stitching the last few days (see, I really AM ill; I told you I wasn't faking it!)..  There's not a lot of progress on PoF...

Here's a recent pic:

I've been playing around with using some fibres I rarely use.  Silk/wool, tapestry yarn (split into single ply... THAT'S interesting).

I think that using single ply wool singles is going to require incredibly short strands plus generous use of thread conditioner to hold it together until it's stitched in.

The sample I've done on 25 count linen over 1 (permin of cop. 100% linen) looks like mini needlepoint.  Quite pretty combined with silk threads.

I am almost (aaaaalmost) ashamed of the silks and flosses in my stash.  I know a fair bit of the specialty stash came from Lydia at Wyndham ages and ages ago in a huge grab bag.  (I'm so sad that they retired :(

Anyhow, I've mostly been able to shop my stash for floss for the PoF.  Didn't stop me buying the following from the 'bay, of course:


$15.52 from awaw.  I needed more silk.  Yes, I did.

 

 $21.50 incl. shipping: Size/length:83skeins,each skein is 22meters, 1826meters in all