I feel guilty if I don't work on Labor Day.I carved another leg for the Chippendale chair. I got tired of that, so I switched to putting some rocks on the outside. I got tired of that and decided to switch to the needlework cushion for the chair. This is the status of the chair. OK, so it looks pretty much like yesterday. I did another leg and another arm. I can only do it for so long and I have to do it with a lighted magnifier.
As for the outside stone. I got this far before the pizza got here. What is more important? There is no contest between stones and pizza!
All of the time I was doing this, I was watching DVDs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes. I have a not so secret vice. I loved that show. Not so much the last two seasons, but the first five are one of my all time favorite series. When I can't find anything on normal TV, I go to DVDs of Buffy or Gilmore Girls.
Then there was the cushion for the chair. I dug out some #40 silk gauze(stitches per linear inch) and first I tried some DMC linen thread. Interesting experiment. I see why no one ever recommends using linen on silk canvas now. The silk had the linen thread for lunch. It chewed through it really fast. I went back to the old standby silk. You can see just a little of the linen on the left. It got fuzzy and limp before I could get across a line of the gauze. The width of the stitchery is 73 stitches and it covers 1 7/8".The photo is actually about the same size as the real thing. If you blow it up it is way bigger. 
I did a simple scalloped bargello design over 3 threads vertically. You go vertically over three threads, then take one step down over 3, then go down one step and do 3 stitches at the same level. Work back up the other side of the scallop in a mirror image. The point of each scallop is a shared stitch. I just held it up to the cushion form to make sure that it was wide enough to wrap around and I will just keep going until it is long enough. This kind of stitchery doesn't need a lot of blocking. It probably won't take too long. Maybe another 3 episodes of Buffy.
I did a simple scalloped bargello design over 3 threads vertically. You go vertically over three threads, then take one step down over 3, then go down one step and do 3 stitches at the same level. Work back up the other side of the scallop in a mirror image. The point of each scallop is a shared stitch. I just held it up to the cushion form to make sure that it was wide enough to wrap around and I will just keep going until it is long enough. This kind of stitchery doesn't need a lot of blocking. It probably won't take too long. Maybe another 3 episodes of Buffy. Happy Labor Day..... Back to the miniatures. See you tomorrow.
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