2183.5
Melinda is working on the narration for the video of our project for her exhibit. She asked, how many hours of embroidery have been done so far?
In the fine old tradition of passing the buck, I asked Arianna to go through the heap of time sheets from over a year’s worth of embroidery sessions. She patiently, and painstakingly, combed each one, totaling the minutes, figuring hours, totaling hours, checking, double checking, walking away for coffee ….
After a couple of days, she gave me a little yellow post-it with the total so far -
2183.5
Very nearly 2200 hundred hours. This is, as Tricia says, “time spent moving the needle”. This isn’t shopping, or chatting, or even practicing on the doodle cloth. This includes time spent on the coif and forehead cloth, but not Tricia’s hours or some of Wendy’s, so it probably all evens out. Of course we still have the gold and sequins to go, so the final, grand total may top our original estimate, but we’ll continue to keep good records so we’ll be able to report back.
I’m amazed and humbly grateful. Thank you all so much for your dedication to this project.
Because a number like that deserves some eye candy to go with it, here’s a photo of show & tells waiting their turn. I love this; it’s such a heap of riches, of time and skill and precious needleworked beauty and usefulness. Included here are items by Sandye, Jennifer, Sharon and Catherine.
Tags: Arianna, Melinda, show & tell, total hours, Tricia, Wendy
October 6th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Thank you to Arianna for the tally. I can nearly guarantee that everyone who had contributed to those hours to date has done so with a thankful and humble heart. We just love getting to be a part of the process.
Thanks to you too, Jill. This is a large task to undertake along with all your real work. Even if we don’t always say so, we stitchers do very much appreciate all your time and talents!
I was wondering though…how is the silk weaving coming? We had such lovely photos of the process (and the house and equipment) last time, that I’d be eager to see more!