I wanted to post a little bit about the workshop that I started yesterday.  It will continue today for the full day today also. I will tell you, embroidering with the tambour hook certainly challenges me in more ways than just using the hook itself.  You need an incredible amount of patience learning this.  I think for every 50 attempts I made, I was maybe able to complete a stich 1/4 of the time. (they say the first million stitches are the hardest with this- I would questimate I am up to about 1,000) :)  You have to leave your perfectionism at the door.  I found that it took me so long to do the stitches, that the little punctures in the organza from where I had too much tension will have to stay there even though they bug me immensely.  The crooked row of beads?  Those took forever, so they will have to stay too.  Also, no warp speed here! This part I completed took the better part of a day.  Granted some time was spent on the teaching of it as well, but still- it took a long time!  As I was practicing another row in the hotel room last night, I couldn't help thinking about monks who spent days and days creating a letter for a manuscript they were copying- stitching a row was kind of like that.  I will update more tomorrow! Kindly, ~Jaime