Charlemagne is credited with saying that learning another language gives you another soul.

It gives access to other swearwords, too.

I've just discovered, while mounting it, that Loading The Felucca is no longer visibly signed.

My emotions are best expressed, as someone once said, by a string of symbols from the top row of the keyboard!
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I may be getting to grips with curved needles, but the angle I'm having to lean over my work is Not Good for my back. This piece of mounting is not going to be a "one and done".

But it is going to look good, so there's that..

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I have a challenge before me. The main Amarna pieces consist of two large panels, colour-blocked and "spotted" with embroideries representing stories, finds or people from the book "Nefertiti Lived Here". This will have overlays of gauze showing the heads of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, but importantly, I want the overlays not to touch the embroidery, and to be removable.

So how can I attach the overlays? Or how can I mount them (as unobtrusively as possible, not with a great heavy frame) so that they are easy for the viewer to "open" away, or haul out of the way, or something?

Ideas? Advice? Engineering suggestions?
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This time, #LoadingTheFelucca against copper or brown. I'm not convinced by either of these...

Thoughts, anyone?

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I am planning to mount "Loading The Felucca" on a fabric covered frame, like everything else, but I have to decide what colour. The ones I've used so far have been these two, plus Nefertiti's cloth of gold, which is clearly unsuitable because the colours wouldn't work against it.

So, does anyone have a suggestion? Dark blue or burgundy? Or something else entirely...?

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Another shot of the #ClumpOfViolets , just because I'm so happy with them!

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I've finally found a use for some of a reel of Peri-lusta Invisible Thread inherited from my Grandmama!

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I've spent the morning working on the violets, inserting them in their new fabric, and beginning to contrive the cascade. One of the leaves has winkled itself out of the fabric, so I'm pausing to regain calm and temper!

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