New Thread

I spent the morning on remaking a couple of sold pieces. I was feeling pretty good about the amount of work I was getting done. Of course that was all up until I finished the choker I was working on and realized that the next one on my list was a really big piece. That's when the stalling began. I guess it was really only a couple of hours and I am allowed to take a break, but I still felt a bit guilty over it. So I decided to play with the ball of Lizbeth Twirlz thread I bought when I had to make an order last.

The color is called Midnight Mist and it is size 20, which I don't prefer working in, but I was curious. It seems a much softer thread than their usual solid colors and I noted that the end unraveled a bit more than usual as well. The softness made it easier for me to work with the smaller thread, but it was still high quality. I guess it's all just my own opinion, but I do hope that they do the Twirlz in size 10 sometime and then I'm likely to get more because it does leave behind an interesting mottled design.

Then as I was deciding to buckle under again, I got an order and an email for a custom piece all in the space of a few minutes. So everything else was put down and I got back to work on things that have homes. I still have the custom piece to finish today and if I'm not feeling too lazy, I should get the bracelet in the new thread listed. I'm not sure what else to do with the thread. I mostly use size 20 for earrings, so I might do that as well. I guess we'll just have to see how the day goes.

Crazy Day Number Two

One crazy day down, like five more to go. The daughter had a lovely birthday, though I made unfortunate shoe decisions on a day that required me to walk far too much. There was toy shopping, the park, zoo, comic book shop, dinner out then we took the girls out on their new bikes until nearly bed time. My feet are seriously perturbed at me, seriously.

I managed not a single task for 'work' except that I stole a few minutes to get the Wunderkammer made up during their nap. Today they're is a slight chance I'll get something tatting related accomplished since we have just the field trip and kindergarten graduation firmly scheduled for today. Late last night the UPS man brought me my massive black thread shipment. This is suppose to wean me off Michael's trips and is a better quality anyway. Though speaking of thread, I ordered up some Lizbeth for the first time. I had a customer who wanted a dark green color in a piece I tat with size 20 thread and that was the brand with the color I needed. I had often heard such high praises for it, but I don't get it really. Maybe it's just a personal taste thing, but I like my thread firm, but soft and this stuff was stiff to work with. On the other end, I hate perle cotton with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. It's too soft and falls apart when you look at it, but I hear about people using it all the time. Is it a color thing, I know both those extremes come is wide variety of colors. Yeah, I just stick to what I like using I suppose.

A big thank you to all of you who commented on the veil yesterday. I got a few moments to check them throughout the day and I was truly touched by all the praise. I'm now getting rather excited for the whole line to develop as well. I've got the tatting done for the bridal version and the feathers are on their way this week, so if I do get some time, I'll sew up the veil and have that ready to put together when they get here. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the best way to photograph the piece for listing. I know it would look better on a real head, but I worry that some people will be icked out by the thought of it already being worn. Meh, I guess we'll cross that road when I actually have some time to get to it. Now onto crazy day number two.