My score this month was only two embroidered pieces finished. Pathetic ! But there were reasons for the low rate of productivity: two trips and moving to Lithuania; also successions of dark, rainy afternoons when the light wasn’t good enough to do embroidery.
I showed all my finished pieces to Marcelline, and to our mutual friend Tania, a Russian artist, who suggested that there should be an exhibition here of this work; she was sure it was totally unknown in Lithuania. So, maybe this will be a project for the future.
I spent a good deal of time this month browsing the websites of British embroidery companies, to try to find more good quality kits. It was a discouraging exercise: so many silly and unimaginative designs — why would I pay UKP5 or 6 plus postage for kits showing a sprig of holly or a Christmas tree bauble ? — and so few kits of any artistic or topical significance.
Marcelline took me last week to a fabric shop where, amongst all the bolts of cloth, were displayed what seems to be an almost complete range of Madeira threads. A great discovery: I’ll be exploring it further as time permits.
