Bank Holiday Update 4

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WEATHER TODAY : Raining even more and blowing a gale

Had a break through yesterday.
I spent most of the day creating a sample index of my C&G work ready for July , while DH was watching the F1 racing. My tutors have said that an index of samples and where to find them will mean I would not have to break up my sketch books to put them all together. It took a while as I took photos of quite a few to add to the index. As I was doing this I started to pack everything into our LARGE suitcase. It all goes in there , except the corset lamp shade which has its own box and the plastic stitched creature (yoda) which I want to carry in a backpack to make sure he is still in one piece at the other end. Although I think DH will have to help me get the suit case down the stairs as it is a little heavy now.

As it was still raining I thought I would get the fabric cut ready in case Monday was a nice dry day. Well now that when it struck me, the fabric was not a large as I thought it was going to be. It would lay out on the bed real easy and that when I desided it was time to PAINT the background!

Today I have been drawing up the full pattern and piecing all the fabrics on to the background. Then finally sorting out the main threads ready to start the stitching. I might get round to filling a few dozen bobbins with black thread but not planning to start the stitching tonight.

You'll see from the slide show below that painting allowed for a little more use of different colours to create a more varigated fabric, I took a series of pictures as the hanging grew and DH took an extra I do not normally get =)