Today and tomorrow I'm taking an embroidery class. The teacher is from France and speaks no English, but many of the other participants are bilingual and are very good about providing translation. Several years ago I, more or less, left my embroidery behind. My arthritic hands just couldn't manage the very fine, fussy detailed work that I so very much loved. Since then I've done some coarser, fairly basic embroidery in some of my fibre pieces, but today it was back to very fine work, with a single strand of silk perle smaller than #12, through heavy wool fabric layered with acetate taffeta. It didn't take long until the old skills emerged. My poor vision turned out to be more of a problem than the work itself.
It was like coming home again. Euphoria! Now, I know that the pain will return if I keep it up. I'm concerned about having the tolerance to finish tomorrow's class. But for this small period of time I'm able to go back to a time in my life that has many varied and fond memories for me
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More and more memories become fonder. They mostly age well.
Dianne
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