Having a Lazy Afternoon

I should be working…in the sense of writing words for “real” publication rather than words for my blog, but once I get in experiment mode, it can be difficult to stop.

The current experiment is something called “Zoundry,” because, as noted, previously, I’m not doing this for myself, but with the idea that I’m going to find a way to teach my dad how to blog and, frankly, the server-side WordPress interface is way too complex, not to mention that the actual composition window is way too small. So I went Googling for WordPress Desktop Interface and found a bunch of front-end processors, of which Zoundry is donationware, thereby making it my first choice for experimentation.

This morning, when I could have been exploring Zoundry (or writing), I was, instead, indulging my passion for blackwork — a counted thread technique that shows up well in the Holbein portraits of Tudor monarchs. So well, in fact, that it’s sometimes called Holbein work.

Okay…it’s not black blackwork, but trust me, if Elizabethan embroiderers had had access to the kind of colorful threads that are available now, they would have used them all…on the same piece. The piece above is called “Tangled Up,” and was designed by Sally Rudkin, who is designing the kind of blackwork I wish I could imagine. (And if you visit the link, you’ll see that it’s nowhere near finished… not the center motif, which has unfilled segments and not the border, which I haven’t even begun!)

(And now I’ll be able to tell how (and if) Zoundry uploads graphics!)

And I better do my uploading now, because we’re under a tornado watch until seven PM and I can hear thunder rumbling in the west.

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