US Map: It begins
May. 27th, 2018 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porkwithbonesThe map arrived yesterday, so last night I made a run to the store for embroidery supplies and, after some practice on a cheap fat quarter I also bought, I got started.
This is the result.
One forearm’s length of red embroidery thread got me about a third of the way around Arkansas. I started there because Acorn and I consider it home (and it has been for generations, after all!) and because it has three nice straight sides for me to practice split stitch on before I get to the curves along the Mississippi River in the east.
I bought the largest embroidery hoop Walmart had, and three of the four states I need to outline in red fit inside it (AR, MO, and IL).
States that are or have ever been home for either of us will be outlined in red. Other states we’ve visited (beyond just passing through) will be outlined in black.
This is the result.
One forearm’s length of red embroidery thread got me about a third of the way around Arkansas. I started there because Acorn and I consider it home (and it has been for generations, after all!) and because it has three nice straight sides for me to practice split stitch on before I get to the curves along the Mississippi River in the east.
I bought the largest embroidery hoop Walmart had, and three of the four states I need to outline in red fit inside it (AR, MO, and IL).
States that are or have ever been home for either of us will be outlined in red. Other states we’ve visited (beyond just passing through) will be outlined in black.
