How I Learned the Librarian Glare

I have always been an admirer of tea towel embroidery. I have a lovel “collection” from my great grandmother and godmother of towels depicting wash days, various other chores, fruits and veg, etc. I like the idea of having things that you use every day be beautiful.

When I was a tot, my godmother determined that I needed to learn to do embroidery. She bought me the little squares of blue stamped cotton and floss. Every day we were together she would show me how to backstitch and outline stitch, etc. The one place we butt heads was splitting the floss into strands. On one piece, I used the entire width (??) of the floss to stitch some hair on a little blond cutie. My godmother was mad and that was the end of those stitching lessons. I had learned enough and put those skills to good use even today.

Flickr’s RitaPizza named me as a contact so I went to look at her pictures. This embroidery piece really caught my eye. I love the stylized face and hair and think changing the pinup inot a mermaid was clever. RitaPizza has a lot of fabulous pictures on her Flickr site that I haven’t even begun to delve into. Go take a look and enjoy her work.