I try and work on my tapestry (Baxtergraphix flannel flowers) each Friday and Saturday night. Sometimes I manage to squeeze in some extra time but that is quite rare. We usually watch a kid's movie on Friday night with movie night treats: popcorn and chocolates. Then we put the kids to bed early on Saturday and watch our movie with cocktails and chocolates. For our movie viewing pleasure, we use one of those online DVD services where you subscribe, create a list of titles you'd like to watch and each week they mail you your subscription DVDs, which you then return in the post. Its a pretty nice routine and it gives me some predictable sewing time. Nonetheless, tapestries are pretty labour intensive and I've been working on this one since 2007. My tapestry teacher has offered to display it at the Craft Fair in August if I manage to finish it and have it framed in time.
It was really sweet of her because it gave me a deadline. That red thread in the right hand margin of the tapestry is the half way mark and I was at that point last November. I've made a lot of progress over the past few months and got so excited I've started buying threads for my next tapestry. I've also been bragging at the classes about how close I am to the end. Which on the scale of two and half years of sewing is true, but on the scale of August is ... well.... lying is probably too strong a word but you get the picture.
My teacher doesn't run her classes through the winter so I wont see her until just before the craft fair. I was really optimistic when first we had the conversation but now I'm beginning to have doubts.
I've got to allow for 2-3 weeks for the framing, and the craft fair is early in August. So I figure I've got about 4 weeks of June and maybe 1 or 2 weeks of July. I've marked off the remaining canvas with needles on the left hand side of the tapestry, into 4 blocks of nine rows each. I did that last night while we were watching Stuart Little. Eeks I really only get 2 rows done a night. 4 rows a week x 6 weeks = 24 rows and I've got 36. Gonna have to pick up the pace if I want to meet the deadline.
Can you see the beautiful sunset from my sewing corner? Distracting huh?
