{"id":13012,"date":"2021-05-04T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2021-06-10T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:10:50","slug":"a-nice-soft-case-for-my-lorgnettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/04\/a-nice-soft-case-for-my-lorgnettes\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice, soft case for my lorgnettes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An old lady of my acquaintance once said to me, “Getting older is no fun, dear, but it’s better than the alternative”. Well, one of the effects of getting older – for me – is that I now need reading glasses. If I try to move while wearing my reading glasses, the results are sometimes disconcerting, sometimes positively disorientating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d been wondering about what to do about this, until at the end of 2019, it occurred to me to channel my inner Lady Bracknell, and start wielding a pair of lorgnettes. I duly acquired some, with my usual impeccable timing (Ha!) at the beginning of March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since then, of course, museums and menus have alike been out of reach, and I stowed the lorgnettes in my “Eve In The Garden of Eden<\/a>” box in hopes of happier times to come. I’ve decided to get started on a case now, so as to be prepared for those happier times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I’m now dealing with the exhaustion consequent upon getting within sight of the finish on The Amarna Family Group (which has been going for nearly a year<\/a>) and the Christmas Angel (begun around Christmas 2015<\/a>!), I’ve been looking for small quick projects to reset myself, and this should be a good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a piece of 22 count cotton canvas I found lurking in my stash, and so far I think it will be very simple. I think six repetitions of the scroll will allow me to wrap the lorgnettes with a closing flap, and the light yellow (pearl cotton) and cream (stranded cotton) should make it eay to find in the depths of my handbag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 59 of SlowTV Stitchery is now live, in which we have almost recovered from the unpicking following last week’s stitching, and consider the particular delight of a fully-stitched fabric.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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