Chapter 159 - Craftiness
After stitching many, perhaps a dozen or two, embroidery designs on felt and including a few in home made birthday cards, she has graduated to making eye glass cases "in-the-hoop" to standard layout designs. You may have no concept of what I am describing, but be assured that a degree of manual dexterity is required to cut out templates, hoop layers of fabric & stabiliser, some spray gluing and final assembly. Although the design is somewhat simpler than a case I once made an average job of in a workshop, her work has been excellent. She had me enlarge the original design she had been given to a more suitable size for our glasses and now she seems to be on a roll. From another supplied design she cross-stitched a front panel and keeps reminding me to digitise the other parts so that she can construct another version. Birthday presents everyone?
On Friday she complained that her left arm and eye had become very itchy. Thinking back to when I conducted an experiment to prove that 15 minutes in bright sunshine was more than enough to make her skin itch like the dickens, and having learnt that a friend has "seizures" when beneath supermarket lighting, it dawned on her that she had been using the soft light from a fluorescent lamp to brighten the workspace around her embroidery machine. Yesterday that lamp was replaced with another using blue "daylight" incandescent bulbs. The itches have gone! Makes me wonder how much subtle irritation may be caused by those small energy efficient lamps we have been encouraged to use throughout our houses in place of the old incandescent types, which some bureaucratic idiot has probably banned, since I believe they are no longer manufactured. Our friend around the corner is re-fitting the old type about their house. I wonder whether interesting side effects of the newer lighting were researched before introducing the new product on the unsuspecting public? In light (no pun intended) of the current world financial crisis we may soon return to candles which probably produce carcinogens and carbon monoxide anyway.
She is not having enough exercise. Even though her leg wound is completely healed now, she has not returned to her earlier daily exercise activities. The high technology solution that I ordered on-line has still not been delivered so that now I could have bought the stuff locally at about the same price. She is always out of breath whenever I tow her around our village on a late night stroll.
On Friday she complained that her left arm and eye had become very itchy. Thinking back to when I conducted an experiment to prove that 15 minutes in bright sunshine was more than enough to make her skin itch like the dickens, and having learnt that a friend has "seizures" when beneath supermarket lighting, it dawned on her that she had been using the soft light from a fluorescent lamp to brighten the workspace around her embroidery machine. Yesterday that lamp was replaced with another using blue "daylight" incandescent bulbs. The itches have gone! Makes me wonder how much subtle irritation may be caused by those small energy efficient lamps we have been encouraged to use throughout our houses in place of the old incandescent types, which some bureaucratic idiot has probably banned, since I believe they are no longer manufactured. Our friend around the corner is re-fitting the old type about their house. I wonder whether interesting side effects of the newer lighting were researched before introducing the new product on the unsuspecting public? In light (no pun intended) of the current world financial crisis we may soon return to candles which probably produce carcinogens and carbon monoxide anyway.
She is not having enough exercise. Even though her leg wound is completely healed now, she has not returned to her earlier daily exercise activities. The high technology solution that I ordered on-line has still not been delivered so that now I could have bought the stuff locally at about the same price. She is always out of breath whenever I tow her around our village on a late night stroll.
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