Black Flowers

While I have enjoyed the much needed break I took from my jacket I am now happily back to stitching again.   I spent about 4 hours on it two weekends ago while I visited and geeked with Kate and last night I spent another two hours relaxingly stitching away on it.  I really needed the break because I found I was getting to the point that I dreaded working on it and it was stressing me out.  Whenever you find yourself at that point with a project just stop!  Take a week, or two, or six.  Do something else and come back to it later.  You will be happy that you did. 

I’m really enjoying working on this project again.  I’m still taking it slow.  I’m not driving myself to meet any weekly goals of hours worked.  I’m just enjoying the process of making back flowers. :)

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About Alison

Alison Kannon is an avid costumer and a rabid historical martial arts and fencing enthusiast. She has been studying and teaching Sixteenth Century European martial arts since 2001. She is an enthusiastic historical re-enactor and created Elizabethanmafia.com in order to share her research of the fashion, culture, and martial arts of Early Modern England.
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