Weekend went well. Dave and I took a trip to the big craft store in Paris. He got a couple cross stitch kits with bears and I got some tatting stuff. They had a nice array of shuttle tatting supplies including threads in bright colours and some in high fashion colours including several variegated blues that would look great with denims. No wonder my little tatting page has been getting attention. I got a book for intermediate tatters that's full of unique edgings and insertions and next I'm getting a book that has some advanced techniques including "cluny weaving" "split rings," Josephne knots and dangle drops. That should be fun!
For fall I want to make some denim fashions for myself and include some tatted accents. Tatting always get a reaction when people see it on clothing. I have a couple shirts with tatted accents and the lace is exactly as the Victorian women described it, durable and it stands up to repeated washings. I'm trying several of the new edgings in the book.
Sunday was the big "Ribs and Craft Beer" festival in the Park in Kitchener. There were eight places selling ribs and one place selling fire roasted corn on the cob. It was not a place for vegetarians. The food however, was quite good. I didn't have any beer, Celiac prevents me from ever having a beer or "malt beverage" ever again. Ben made up for it by sampling EVERYTHING and then walking in that strange sideways shuffle he gets when he's had way too much. by eight in the evening he had a headache.
Know what I hate? Thunderstorms in the middle of the night. And I hate waking up to the weather network headline "tornado warning has ended" Tornadoes should only be permitted in the day when people are awake and able to see or hear the tornado warnings.
So I checked out the "I Write Like" website. I entered in the Big Game section of my novel and I write like "Stephen King" I entered a different novel, a big old unfinished tome I have on my hard drive and i got Chuck Palahniuk, the guy who wrote The Fight Club I suppose i could do worse. I could write like whoever wrote the Twilight series. Or "the dark and stormy night" guy. A few blog entries came up as "I write Like Charles Dickens. That can only mean one thing: Time for a good editing of adverbs, adjectives and excess punctuation. Too bad I didn't write like Neil Gaiman...that would be cool.
Now it's off to work on my dress. I have my serger set up with some woolly nylon on pale aqua so i do a nice soft seam finish on the inside and then I can start sewing on the braid trims, the beads and apply the hotfix crystals. It's going well, so far.
And that's all for today. Maybe tomorrow I will have some real content for my blog.
