Kathryn Brightbill ๐๏ธEmbroidery stand acquired. Now can sit outside and live out my Jane Austen fantasies.
This project is going to end up documenting my bad handwriting for posterity.
Finished stitching the year. I'm trying to decide whether to stitch all the months in advance, or do each month at the end of the month, and pick the colors based on the high or low temperature for the month (or both, somehow?).
I'm legit surprised that I still have muscle memory to do a chain stitch, because I only did it on one embroidery kit that my cousin gave me for Christmas in middle school, and that I never finished because I got bored, and my wrists hurt because of the aforementioned messing them up spraining them skating. Apparently it's a skill you don't forget.
Started the actual embroidery. I don't think I've done a chain stitch since middle school, but it must be like riding a bike, because it feels familiar ๐.
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Now that I've gotten my sections marked out for the #EmbroideryJournal, I just have to decide what color to use for the year. I think I might do different colors for the months to mark either the seasons, or the average temperature for that month, but I don't know for sure yet.
Next thing I need to do is mark my fabric into 12 equal wedges. My fabric marking pen went missing, so I'm going to have to brave the nightmare that is Walmart at the holidays to buy a new one. Once my muslin is marked out, I'm not going to be as concerned about the fabric shifting as I work, since everything will be marked out on an X/Y axis.
A few years ago, I won a Brother serger from a Spoonflower giveaway, and decided to keep it even though I already owned this Janome serger, because it's a pain in the neck changing serger settings for different projects. The end result is that because the machine was already set up, this rolled hem for my embroidery journal took about 10 minutes from pulling my sewing supplies out, to putting everything away.
I haven't done a whole lot of embroidery over the years because I screwed up my wrists spraining them a few too many times skating as a kid, but since this project is just embroidering small icons every few days, I should be able to avoid wrist pain. #RynEmbroiders #EmbroideryJournal
I'm planning on using my version of the embroidery journal concept kind of like a sampler where I can play around with different techniques, and learn stitches that I don't already know.