A Needlecase Update!
June 27, 2006 by admin
Filed under Home & Living
Finally. 
I hadn’t been doing as much stitching, as it was making my eyes hurt. But now I have new lenses in my glasses, and the mad rush of many houseguests has calmed a bit. That means over the last couple of days I have had time to work on my needlecase! yay!
I realized in the reading of my chart last evening that I need to backstitch around the flowers in the center motif with gold metallic. I’d thought I was done with that one (except for beads & crystals, which I’m going to add last so I don’t catch my floss on them while stitching). *sigh*
This second motif I’m working on is going really quickly. I have to do some more leaves and vines, a couple butterflies, and the filling stitches on the hardanger blocks. I’d better get the whole needlecase done soon, because I have started a bad habit of sticking my needle into the leg of my pants and then forgetting it is there.
It looks very, very tender
It’s difficult to get rid of some stitching habits; yours is still nothing compared to keeping a needle in mouth while changing threads. I forced myself to stop doing it and…started to stick it into the coach next to me. Guess if I can find it after that. Someone definitely needs a pincushion. Huge, colorful, that says “look, I am here! Use me, you &^%$”. Heh.
I’m pretty bad about holding pins and needles in my mouth, do it all the time! I can’t just put the needle down somewhere, or it would be lost forever (or until someone stepped on it. ow!)
I was doing pretty well at putting the needle in the cloth… I have no clue why I started sticking the darn thing in my pant leg!