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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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. :)