A Few More...

 

  Stitches And Rocks...

I Had nearly finished the stitching, Dear Readers, on the background of the Medieval Ladies Tapestry before I left for my Travels all those weeks ago. And once I returned, it was not difficult to complete. I don't know about you, but I do get so absorbed in these projects, I almost don't want to finish them! Except that I know I will Love looking at them when they are finished and installed in their home. And I must confess, that the final steps involved in order to truly be "finished" with these tapestries, adding the tabs for hanging them and sewing a backing, do not excite me one bit... and tend to take a loooong time to get done. But meanwhile, let me show you the completed stitching!

I think it turned out as well as could be expected of a "hybrid" design!

And here it is with the other Ladies Tapestry... 

so you can see just how well they go together

 and suggest that they were once all one Tapestry!

All I need to do is hem the new part, add the tabs etc.

We can pretend that I'll have it done in no time.... 

while I go sweeping off to stitch my current obsessive project....

The Baktiari Carpet.

You might be able to tell I have been attempting to get

 all the outlines complete for the "lozenges" 

in the middle of the carpet.

And as I was working on the ones at the bottom,

 I noticed that I had counted wrong on the "legs"

right below the "knot" where they join each other...

most of the lozenges have only two stitches before they spread apart....

 but on the bottom row they need to have four stitches!

(If you need to see a reference picture,

 the partly stitched beginning in the previous post will show you!)

Fortunately, I was able to un-stitch the parts that I had done wrong!

Above you can see it after the removal of the mistakes...

Here you can see I have started to lengthen

 those "legs" to four stitches long...

(If you get out your magnifying glass and count very carefully!)

And while I was wrestling with those few stitches, Dear Readers, 

I was also trying to reacquaint myself with the rock-painting process

 for the door surround on the Lords Bed Chamber door!

Here I have glued the vertical pieces in place already....

 (you didn't need to see them being painted, did you?)

But those were the easy ones...

It took the entire next day to cut, fit, prime, paint

 and glue the remaining five rocks!

And I didn't get to the grout painting, 

which needs to be done to tidy up

 the courses of the rocks.

(Dare I say the rocks for the Bed Chamber are done?)

And as for the few stitches on the new carpet...

I finished fixing the Lozenges and then some!

As I am sure you have noticed, Dear Readers,

I find it impossible to only sew a "few" stitches!

Just a few more.... 

and a few more..... 

and a few more....