Huh. This is amazing. I'm sitting here stitching on that tunic I showed you Friday,
and I take some photos of it to show you what I'm doing:
The red is the pocket. The yellow and the green stitching is what I'm doing now. The green will eventually be pointy arrows like the ones at the hem.
I'm adding pockets and replicating, sort of, the stitching that's already on the tunic so it will all blend and look as if it belongs. And I SWEAR that the thread I'm using matches EXACTLY the thread used in the triangles at the top of this photo (which is the hem; it's upside down because I'm holding it in my lap). But in these photos, it has a blue tint--a teal tint.
Isn't that weird? So apparently the camera is picking up some blue-ish tones in there that I can't see. I wish I hadn't taken these photos because now I'll know the threads are not an exact match. I wonder if this will be the straw that pushes me over the bridge~~
(And what's that called, which you mix up idioms? "Phrasal malapropism," suggests
Geoffrey K. Pullum. Eh. That's not what I was looking for, but never mind.)
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Love it! Can't wait to see the finished piece.
"Phrasal malapropism" - I love it! Or as Opus once said "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke."
Love the stitching!! Just out of curiosity - is that DMC floss you're using? Or something else. It just looks richer, somehow.
I love that it has red pockets.
My husband calls my verbal mis-steps mangled metaphors. "Phrasal malapropism" seems more distinguished -- although mangling is what I seem to do. Besides, now that I think about it, mangles are fiber related (as in the old ironing machines... not that I iron!).
Isn't that supposed to be 'the straw that pushed you over the EGE'? (sorry, but someone had to say it...)
Ho, ho, ho. Funny woman.
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