Here’s more of the November session’s show & tell. The green velvet bookcover embroidered in gold is by Cathy. Under it are two pillows, the top one embroidered by Kandy, the bottom by Kathy. The first time they met they realized they were working on the same pattern. I imagine there was a little of the same sort of awkwardness that comes when you both wear the same dress to a party, but they each made different color and size choices so the pillows aren’t twins. And you have to figure that someone who chose the same pattern as you did is someone you’d like to know.

Allison, friend to both Kandy and Cathy, sent me an email last week describing their trip home (they all drove together from Philadelphia; Allison flew there from her home in Tennessee):

Cathy, Kandy and I had a bit of an unexpected adventure on our way home Sat. evening. We were in CT somewhere when we heard a loud POP from under Cathy’s car hood, and then some really terrible noises. We pulled over and made it to the parking lot of a State Police station, which was lucky because the car was kaput. It had blown a spark plug and taken some wires with it. After some stressful discussions about what, exactly, we were going to do, we towed it to a garage (which, of course, couldn’t do anything until Monday). The tow-truck guy helpfully drove us to the best hotel in town, the lovely Super 8. We called Kandy’s husband, who jumped in the car and drove most of the night from Philly (4+ hours) to get to us. After a couple hours’ sleep, we managed to make it back to Philly in time for me to catch my plane home. Whew! Cathy’s going back up to CT to get her vehicle after Thanksgiving, which will be another adventure I’m sure. It’s never dull around us.

Cathy is the same person who embroidered the gloves, and she wrote in response to Carolyn’s question about the lace:

The lace I used was store bought lace that I got from Joann’s fabric. I believe they also had gold lace as well. I chose it because the lace pattern was very close to a period design and it was the most historically accurate lace I could find for the gloves. The lace is not real silver thread though and I do not know how well they will hold up over several years.