Craft
Thread, not decoration
Embroidery that is trying to look expensive usually looks nervous.
Mira Holm
I spent a weekend stitching a running line around a napkin hem. No flower, no initial. Just a dark thread that followed the edge and sometimes wandered a millimetre off.
Friends asked what it was meant to be. It was meant to be a napkin that had been handled. That is all.
The part that took time
The knot on the back. I redid it four times because I wanted it small enough that it wouldn't catch on the table. Nobody sees that. I still check it when I fold the linen.
