AND ONE MORE POST because this foolish machine is smarter than I am.

 

Here is some of Abigail’s needle lace – also called reticella. And here’s a LINK to a bigger picture. It was amazing and beautiful and rich with hours lavished on it. It seemed like there was an extravagantly long strip of it but I can’t remember exactly how many motifs she made. What I do remember is that after she became familiar with the pattern, “it took only 11 hours to do one repeat.” Wow.

 

Take that, Bloggie. All the pictures I wanted and only three posts. Pfffft.

Part the Second.

 

Abigail brought some treasures, too. Here she is wearing the coif she made from Plimoth Plantation’s coif kit. Is that the smiling face of a woman who has been able to devote four days in a row to stitching?

 

 

 

 

Here’s another view because you can either see the coif or the wearer but not both at once.

OK. Bloggie has won. I’ve been trying for 40 minutes to put what I think are a reasonable number of pictures in this post. Bloggie (grrrrr) thinks my picture use is excessive. SO. TWO POSTS. Take that. Here’s the first bit.

 

Thanks for giving me last night off. I’d fully intended to blog after winding up the September session, but I was all done in and fell asleep pretty early.

 

It would be hard for me to choose a favorite part of the embroidery session. I love to hear Kathleen talk about food, I learn something new every time I listen to Peter and I enjoy meeting the embroiderers so much. But a truly special treat is the show and tell day. This happened spontaneously during the first session but I’ve scheduled it in ever since.

 

Here is Norma with her needlework treasure. This exquisite christening dress was made in Portugal for Norma’s 3x great-grandfather in 1831. The close-up doesn’t do it justice.

 

The second picture is Norma’s very first needlework project. Norma also brought TWO PIECES that I mistook for Tricia’s work. They were from Tricia’s kits but Norma made them. I’d seen Tricia’s originals at an earlier show & tell and thought she’d brought them back again. (Click the link – shrinking them to bloggie-size is too small.)