Charlemagne is credited with saying that learning another language gives you another soul.

It gives access to other swearwords, too.

I've just discovered, while mounting it, that Loading The Felucca is no longer visibly signed.

My emotions are best expressed, as someone once said, by a string of symbols from the top row of the keyboard!
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I may be getting to grips with curved needles, but the angle I'm having to lean over my work is Not Good for my back. This piece of mounting is not going to be a "one and done".

But it is going to look good, so there's that..

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I have a challenge before me. The main Amarna pieces consist of two large panels, colour-blocked and "spotted" with embroideries representing stories, finds or people from the book "Nefertiti Lived Here". This will have overlays of gauze showing the heads of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, but importantly, I want the overlays not to touch the embroidery, and to be removable.

So how can I attach the overlays? Or how can I mount them (as unobtrusively as possible, not with a great heavy frame) so that they are easy for the viewer to "open" away, or haul out of the way, or something?

Ideas? Advice? Engineering suggestions?
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This time, #LoadingTheFelucca against copper or brown. I'm not convinced by either of these...

Thoughts, anyone?

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I am planning to mount "Loading The Felucca" on a fabric covered frame, like everything else, but I have to decide what colour. The ones I've used so far have been these two, plus Nefertiti's cloth of gold, which is clearly unsuitable because the colours wouldn't work against it.

So, does anyone have a suggestion? Dark blue or burgundy? Or something else entirely...?

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I'm trying to stitch the velvet to the vilene so I can cut off all the build up of fabric, and maybe succeed in making this idea work!
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Another shot of the #ClumpOfViolets , just because I'm so happy with them!

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I've finally found a use for some of a reel of Peri-lusta Invisible Thread inherited from my Grandmama!

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If ever I develop true facility with a curved needle, my pride in my skills will be out of all proportion!
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I've spent the morning working on the violets, inserting them in their new fabric, and beginning to contrive the cascade. One of the leaves has winkled itself out of the fabric, so I'm pausing to regain calm and temper!

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Since the base fabric was so destroyed, I now have another piece of fabric covered in inktense and aloe vera gel. It will probably dry today, but I I'm taking no chances with my carefully made petals and leaves!
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This is why the violets don't cascade. When I made the little mound for them to sit on, I made it too close in size to the size of the leaves. So I've a bit of undoing to do!
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Another Spot done!
The #NileTilapia fought back with energy and ingenuity, but he's ready for the next stage now.
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There are two really complicated shapes among the spots and the rest are rectangular(-ish), so I thought if I mounted the #FaienceNecklace as a circle, it would provide a good midway point, easing the transition.

Of course, I might be overthinking all this...!

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It's important to know when to stop, but so frustrating!
I was hoping to get two spots mounted today, but with pain beginning to increase, best not. Still, one is better than none, and a week ago, I couldn't have managed a single side.
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First stitching in recovery from the shoulder strain/injury. The little #FaienceHippopotamus is now mounted on a backing cut to his approximate shape.
And my shoulder is, I think, no worse than when I started. This, I feel, counts as progress!
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I'm still feeling my way towards the mounting for #Akhenaten, but whatever I'm doing, I'm using silk to do it!
(And Grandma's curved needle, restored to sharpness!)
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To file under "New Uses For Old Equipment"...
In my ballet-dancing schooldays, I used to take one of the hairpins out of my hair to use as a buttonhook on my character shoes. They turn out to be useful to pull tapes through slots, as well!
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Now I've found a photographer, I'm mounting the Spots really for photography. Then I have to mount them on the panels...
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I wonder whether this will work?
I'm making a rope basket to mount the violets and the necklace strands..

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