[Sca-cooks] Drakey injures himself again!

[Elaine Koogler]

Oh....that sounds VERY painful.  And it also sounds like you did some major
contortions to do this while reviewing your embroidery?  At last I've found
someone who is more poorly coordinated than I am!!!

Kiri
----- Original Message -----

> On Sunday night I was finishing off a set of embroidered collars and
> cuffs for a chemise for my consort.  And as you do, I ran out of silk
> floss at midnight with 60-80 stiches to go.
>
> So, lunchtime Monday, I dashed at lunchtime to Lincrafts (the local
> haberdashery shop) for floss and then off to the park to embroider (work
> might think I'm a sissy otherwise) and then to rush off to the post
> office to post it.  I'm running to a deadline because Lochac's
> Coronation is this weekend.
>
> I was in the park, working furiously when about 6 stiches from the
> finish I leaned over to inspect while still stitching and managed to get
> the embroidery needle up my nose, piercing the septum.  As you can
> imagine, that brought tears to my eyes (but little blood).
>
> The lady opposite me (who was checking me out, so I was trying to stitch
> as suavely as possible) had a fit of hysterics...  So, embroidery
> needles are off my list of tools now...
>
> What a day...
>
> Drakey.
>
> Ps.  My blowtorch is broken (don't ask) but the company has taken it
> back as being defective :)