Plan D
This post was written on Tuesday, October 29.
Some have asked what our plan is for the gold work. We have had many plans. Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C. Mostly every time someone asked me this important question, I would put my fingers in my ears and sing “La la la la - I can’t hear you!”.
And thus Plan D was born. We had originally hoped that funding would come through and allow us to hire some fast needles to work the gold. That was Plan A. Now we are drafting a smaller group of volunteers
and training them. We are having them work every other coil so the variation of people will be less easy to see. By the end of next week we will know how that plan is working out as two people are going to work on this one piece for a week each. Hopefully we don’t have to implement Plan Q. That’s the one where Tricia does all the plaited braid.
I will also let you know by Friday if Judy is a babbling idiot from too much plaited braid. Here is her day 2 progress. You can see how she is skipping every other coil to let another person work in between. We also learned an important piece of data. About 3 to 3 1/2 coils per spool of gold thread. I will be counting spools on Friday to see if we will need to order more or if our original estimate is holding.
Tricia
Tags: coils, gold thread, Judy, plaited braid, Tricia
November 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
This is fun! Looking at the photos, now that I’ve seen _and worked on_the embroidery (and lace) is cool! That gold braid looks fabulous!
December 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Believe me, if I was ANYWHERE near you, I’d be there like a shot to work on this project with you. It is absolutely gorgeous and inspiring. Unfortunately, Sydney Australia (where I am) is nowhere near you… Sorry!
Yvette