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embroidery update
Nov. 3rd, 2008 09:59 amSo my first completed roller derby embroidery has found its permanent home as part of Dreadnought's derby quilt. I'm really glad she took a photo because I forgot to take a picture of it completed. Too bad you can't see-- there's no yellow thread in it, it's all gold glitter. The Q and C of "Queen City" across the top are in gold, and the girls's stockings and earring, and the ref's whistle, all sparkly.
(I was going to embroider "QCRG" across the top but I have a pet peeve of roller derby leagues who refer to themselves by completely uninformative initials. I don't know who started the "______ City" formula, using their city's nickname-- it's cool, but everyone does it, and a lot of times, they're really obscure. Especially when it's initials. That's also why I embroidered "Buffalo, NY" across the bottom. Because there are at least four Queen Cities, and we just happen to be the first who got a roller derby league together. Hey, Queen City was way better than City of Good Neighbors. And my team took the next-best moniker-- Nickel City.)
So there's one homed successfully.
I'm working on the Kate Beaton illustration now. I thought it would be quick, though I'm not sure why I thought that-- the sailor's easy, sure, but the mermaid's hair alone took me two days and I'm probably still going to go back and add highlights. Fi had a brilliant idea to make the tail go faster-- she spotted some cool variegated floss, so I can take less care over the texture and still have it look fairly complex. I don't think I can do the whole thing in little scales-- though I might do lines of chain stitch. I won't know until I get there. I love the illustration so much, and the hair has taught me some really good control techniques to achieve the effects I want with back-stitch. But I'm facing the realization that I have 2 weeks to get ready for Xmas gifts, and I can't give this one as an Xmas gift. I've been trying to think it over, and I just... my mom and dad would think it was weird, my older sister would think it was weird, my little sisters are getting something else... My grandma would think it was weird... I'm pretty much going to have to keep it, because it delights me but wouldn't mean much to anyone else.
So I really ought to set it aside. Bollocks, I just want to finish something. But I have the next piece, which absolutely has to be done for Xmas, finally designed. I won't post a photo or say more just yet, because there's a slim chance the person it's intended for will read this.
In other news Chita bolted out the door when I came home last night from practice, and was smugly sitting atop the car roof for about an hour. I went to get her so I could go to bed, but she was nowhere to be found. She didn't come in until around 5 am Z woke up and went and called her again, and she showed up about 3 minutes later.
NaNoWriMo is poised to go well today, once I set this embroidery aside and take a breather. It's a gloomy day, somewhat cold and icky, and I got all of Fi's music imported to her computer yesterday, so I have 3.9 days' worth of music I've never heard before to listen to. It's like a smorgasbord. Which is good, because I'm sick of all of my 25 gigs of music-- either I've listened to it until I'm sick of it, or I haven't listened to it much for a reason and should delete it and get more. I'm listening to Fi's, which is mostly stuff I don't love but don't dislike either.
I'm sitting on Fi's bed and I'll be working in here a bunch this week I think, to get the cats used to the idea of someone being here. Nobody slept with her the whole weekend and she was quite disappointed, but they're just used to this room mostly being storage, so it doesn't occur to them to sleep here I think.
I wrote, uh, 275 words yesterday.
(I was going to embroider "QCRG" across the top but I have a pet peeve of roller derby leagues who refer to themselves by completely uninformative initials. I don't know who started the "______ City" formula, using their city's nickname-- it's cool, but everyone does it, and a lot of times, they're really obscure. Especially when it's initials. That's also why I embroidered "Buffalo, NY" across the bottom. Because there are at least four Queen Cities, and we just happen to be the first who got a roller derby league together. Hey, Queen City was way better than City of Good Neighbors. And my team took the next-best moniker-- Nickel City.)
So there's one homed successfully.
I'm working on the Kate Beaton illustration now. I thought it would be quick, though I'm not sure why I thought that-- the sailor's easy, sure, but the mermaid's hair alone took me two days and I'm probably still going to go back and add highlights. Fi had a brilliant idea to make the tail go faster-- she spotted some cool variegated floss, so I can take less care over the texture and still have it look fairly complex. I don't think I can do the whole thing in little scales-- though I might do lines of chain stitch. I won't know until I get there. I love the illustration so much, and the hair has taught me some really good control techniques to achieve the effects I want with back-stitch. But I'm facing the realization that I have 2 weeks to get ready for Xmas gifts, and I can't give this one as an Xmas gift. I've been trying to think it over, and I just... my mom and dad would think it was weird, my older sister would think it was weird, my little sisters are getting something else... My grandma would think it was weird... I'm pretty much going to have to keep it, because it delights me but wouldn't mean much to anyone else.
So I really ought to set it aside. Bollocks, I just want to finish something. But I have the next piece, which absolutely has to be done for Xmas, finally designed. I won't post a photo or say more just yet, because there's a slim chance the person it's intended for will read this.
In other news Chita bolted out the door when I came home last night from practice, and was smugly sitting atop the car roof for about an hour. I went to get her so I could go to bed, but she was nowhere to be found. She didn't come in until around 5 am Z woke up and went and called her again, and she showed up about 3 minutes later.
NaNoWriMo is poised to go well today, once I set this embroidery aside and take a breather. It's a gloomy day, somewhat cold and icky, and I got all of Fi's music imported to her computer yesterday, so I have 3.9 days' worth of music I've never heard before to listen to. It's like a smorgasbord. Which is good, because I'm sick of all of my 25 gigs of music-- either I've listened to it until I'm sick of it, or I haven't listened to it much for a reason and should delete it and get more. I'm listening to Fi's, which is mostly stuff I don't love but don't dislike either.
I'm sitting on Fi's bed and I'll be working in here a bunch this week I think, to get the cats used to the idea of someone being here. Nobody slept with her the whole weekend and she was quite disappointed, but they're just used to this room mostly being storage, so it doesn't occur to them to sleep here I think.
I wrote, uh, 275 words yesterday.
