A
word of advice – be careful what you wish for!
If you stopped by last time, you know that I said I was a little
disappointed that my classes weren’t a bit busier. All I can say is I am glad I was able to waive
one class I was going to take so I only have two. This grad school thing is not easy. My hat is off to everyone that has managed to
get through it successfully. I think
what is really getting to me is the amount of assigned reading – textbooks tend
to be such boring reading.
The
blocks have been up on the wall for at least a week – I have been trying to lay
them out so the color balances. I have
even been looking at them in the middle of the night trying to decide – in the
dark, I can’t see the colors, just the light and dark, so I think that has helped
a bit. It is more difficult than it sounds
because I am trying to alternate between the diagonally sewn and the straight
up and down sewn versions. The picture
above is the current configuration and I may just go with that. Now I have to decide what to put between them.
I just don’t know what color to go with –
black, green, orange, red, or yellow. I
don’t think I want black, so I may have to go with a dark green. And by the
time I decide that, I could possibly have moved the blocks around more.
My
good friend Rebecca turned me onto a couple of awesome sites for embroidery machine
designs the other day – and I just love Embroidery Library Inc. Unlike many other sites I found when I first
got my embroidery machine, this one actually has free designs that are really
nice. They also do not charge an arm and
a leg for their designs. When I signed
up for their newsletter, they sent me a welcome email that had a 50% your first
order coupon. I have been looking for
some nice peacock designs, which are way too expensive everywhere, but at this
site, I got a nice set of 7 (one full bird and 6 border type designs) for $5 with the coupon.
If you have an embroidery machine and haven’t been there yet, I suggest
you visit. Another nice site Rebecca
sent me to is DesignsBySick.com. Weird
name, but they have a lot of cute free designs. And what I really like on both sites - you can actually buy one design
out of a set at a reasonable price – I have seen so many sets that I liked just
one design, but you had to buy the entire set for $20 or $30, so this is really
nice.
The only problem I had was I really didn’t hit the mark with the colors of thread I was pulling out, but it came out kind of pretty-
The
design is approximately 6” by 2 ½” and I am going to use it to make an eyeglass
case. I forgot to mention that, after
about 7 years of the same old glasses, I finally got some new ones and I can
now see much better. I need something to
put them in, instead of the ugly old black cases the vision center gave me.
I
also got some really nice dragon designs at Embroidery Library that I want to
try to put on a shirt or something else wearable. Just need to find some time to get to that.
Okay,
I’m off to try to get more reading done.
Please send good thoughts my way to get me through it.
Thanks
for stopping by!