All the pretty things, or at least some of them

 I haven't been posting much lately. I was sick with a bad cold which lost me a week in the land of the living. So let me atone for myself by posting some pretty things.

I was reorganizing some of my stash of vintage linens and pulled out a couple of pieces to share.

I can't figure out the date for the pretty centerpiece below. The pale yellow is a little unusual.

The combined pulled thread and wrapped embroidery  is awfully attractive.

The piece is bordered with chain stitched botanical motifs. If any of you have a sense of where this piece lives historically or it's possible geographic origin I would love to hear from you.

Continuing on the theme of geometric pulled thread work, I own three of these lovely linen batiste placemats. They will probably live on one of our glass fronted cabinets in the future.

The lace trimmed hankie below needs a tiny bit of mending. This looks like Italian lace to me.

Clearly this isn't a nose honking sort of a hankie but the sort one tucked into an elegant handbag to dab an eye.

I baked a pretty bread while I was sick. It was a fennel and barley bread and had a great shattery crust.

 

It was made with a lazy sourdough starter (a bit of bread dough that hung out in the fridge for several days)

Bagels were also baked during the haze of sick.

We all went out for Father's Day

and ate lots of meat.

You can tell that we are all related because well all stopped to take photos of this inscription on a Catholic School.

We all assumed that she is the patron saint of those HGTV shows where the designers decorate an entire house in grey and declare it cheerful. We also thought that we might evoke Saint Blandia when a meal, unfortunately, is all white. 

We did love the abandoned movie theatre with excellent terracotta work.

I am working away on making trim for two different tallitot.

It feels like miles of embroidery.

In reality it is only 12 feet per ribbon.

Not a mile, but a whole lot of stitching, especially because most of these ribbons require several passes of embroidery.

I made an outfit, a smock dress and a pair of big-butt pants for the baby of a dear friend. Our kids grew up together.

Yes, that's another embroidered ribbon near the hem of the dress. I love this pant design for babies. There is lots of room for diapers.

I made the outfit out of African printed cotton. I love the print. The baby's mother was really happy with the outfit.

We drove onto a wonderful sunset the other night.

Last week I needed to purchase the ribbon that you saw that I embroidered.  I didn't take photos of the racks of Petersham ribbon. I am sharing most of the aisles of zippers, but not all of them.

This wasn't even the complete stock of zippers.

Today I had a doctor's appointment. The building was decorated in a Mayan Moderne style.

I didn't even know that WAS a n architectural style.

This fabulous mosaic faces the elevators.

The terrazzo floors aren't too bad either

Even the radiators are pretty.

This little gem of a building was across the street.

This one was a block south.

So that's the pretty wrap up for the moment.

But one last note before I go. If you post a comment here for the sole purpose of driving business to your commercial site. I won't post your ersatz comment. Nope. Not even if you comment on multiple posts a day, or if you comment multiple times on the same post. I won't post your comment that is intended to drive eyeballs to your business even if you say something nice about a post that I have written.

On the other hand, I love hearing from real human beings with actual comments.