Eggs or Water?

[perzephone]

My rows of turquoise beads look kind of like eggs. I'm liking the blue waves better than the red bars, especially because the blue thread I used is shiny shiny shiny. I'm going to pull the black border out & make a light brown 'hoop' with darker brown stitching, kind of like a dream-catcher or shield.


I took the photos outside & in my kitchen. All the lighting in our house is rather yellow. I don't know why, for sure. The lamp by my desk has a soft white bulb w/a deep green shade. Rob's light is the only one with an honest-to-goodness yellow lampshade. My flash also tends to overexpose things during the daytime. Of course, I took the first couple of photos outside in full sunlight, & the freaking sun made the cloth look glaringly overexposed.

Embroidery spam behind the cut :D

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[moonvoice]

Warm light yellows things up, cool light blues them up, it's pretty much impossible to find 'neutral lighting' outside of 'daylight, lighting.' It's not as obvious to the naked eye, but is a bitch when it comes to taking photos.

I love that little dangly blue bead. What inspired you to start working on this? Will you do another one?

Lighting Things Up a Bit

[perzephone]

Our indoor lighting makes everything photographed appear to be nicotine-stained. It's kind of gross, actually. Sort of a psuedo-sepia. I gotta look into changing that at some point :P

Rob & I got into an argument a year or so ago & he told me I needed a hobby. I used to do embroidery when I was a kid, because my mother did embroidery. For me it was mostly small things - potholders, samplers, little fiddly details on pillowcases, that kind of thing. My mother would do full-on medieval-style tapestries. As I was sitting there, trying to imagine having a hobby, I remembered that at one point, embroidery was my hobby.

It's also fantastically cheap - for like $40 I got a butt-load of assorted floss (which still go for .25c per spool), a few hoops, a pack of needles, a needle threader (which I broke last night, dammit) & a stitch-puller. It's all been sitting in my drawer for about 9 months, but now that school isn't a concern I can indulge myself. I had gotten a beading kit on a whim, so the beads have been laying around for a couple of years, too. I don't know if I'll continue using beading after those are gone because beads, unlike floss, are expensive.

Re: Lighting Things Up a Bit

[moonvoice]

I don't know if I'll continue using beading after those are gone because beads, unlike floss, are expensive.

Let me know once they're gone or even before, I have a ton here that I'm not using, and don't know if I'm likely to use any time soon; I'd be happy to send you a small package, could even put some swarovskis in there. :)