There is so much talk about Artificial Intelligence I decided to have a try at using it. I have an free account with CAVNA so have started with that.
The process is simple, you just type in some words describing what you want and up pops a design.
I put in 'fierce tiger' for this one and I think I could make it into an embroidery.
But these others are just too complicated for me.
I think I need to do some more research.
Stitchers around the world make up quite a community and a friend in my patchwork group has a friend in Denmark who is also a stitcher. We were all nomads in the mining camps back in the 70's, wives of engineers and chemists who worked on these developments. I lent my friend some of my candelwicking design books and these were sent to Denmark for her friend to stitch.
Her take on candlewicking was different. She did the traditional stitch around the design but added a filling stitch in coloured thread, much like the stitching of traditional pieces from the 1800's Scandinavian folk tradition. The finished piece was stunning. Now this same friend has adopted this approach to a Sashiko panel. This blending of stitching traditions comes up with something quite different.
Like fusion foods this is fusion stitching.
I have finished my first Shakespeare Sonnets piece for January but I need a frame for it so it will keep until next week. So now I am looking at what I will stitch for February and have to admit I am not making a lot of headway. I have had a nasty infection since Xmas and that does cloud the mind. (That's my excuse anyway.)
But I am working an a portrait as part of the Suzie Vikery online workshop I have taken part it.
Still a lot to do on this one and I may toss it out and start again.
I have started some small embroideries that I will eventually make into greeting cards. The are counted thread work and just enough to keep the mind engaged and concentrating whilst stitching.
And then I sleep.
I think I have now read every one of the Marjory Allingham's Albert Campion books .
I know there are some others that her husband, who was also a writter, finished after her death, and others that were written by Ripley and I may read these in the future, but for now I can say I have finished this series.
The last one I read was "The mind readers" , published in the 1960's, and it is curious to read what was seen as acceptable back then. (And I was a young women in the late 60's!). These books could almost be classed as a record of social mores over this period and they paint a vivid picture of society and London and it's surrounds over this period. I was in London in the early 1970's so there is a lot that was familiar to me but the period between the late 1900s through the 40's was an eye opener. I have to admit I like her writting better than Agatha Christie and have a feeling that her books will make a come back in popularity at some point.
Now, onto my next book.
Here is something to decorate your pool. I know my grand daughters would love it.
Not for me. I keep my eyes peeled for sharks on my morning swim in the bay. I see birds diving or fish jumping and I'm out of the water in a flash. We have had a lot of rain which brings the sharks in. This ones name is Bob!