Skipping Around....

 

*** Okay - just figured out - I have already stitched this before, on PTP Sand fabric.  That it takes two of the darker floss, and one of the lighter one.  Stitching it again is fine with me.  But kinda funny.  I have converted a bunch of my original posts back to drafts - so I can't even say when I stitched it.  I did finish it.  Did not frame it - but I did finish it.  I had the fabric - I had the fancy floss - it didn't cost me anything to stitch it again.   ***

To Laugh Often - Twisted Threads.  A new start.  Using suggested fancy flosses, on 28 count Queen Anne's Lace jobelan, one over one.  I don't mind doing words at all, and this is from my stash.  Saw it on McKenna's 1884 store, just $2, but then thought I had it in my stash already.  But was it easier to just order it again, or try to dig through my stash?  I found it in my stash.  So far, it's been fine.

 I had looked up photos on-line for my high school reunion.  I have never gone.  The people that I would like to see or talk to again, do not go to class reunions,  But I did look at the photos, and have memories.  They were all people that either did not talk to me while we were in school.  The cheerleaders...  Or - men that let me know what a huge deal that they dance with me when I asked them once, or didn't talk to me when I asked them to talk at some bar a few years after high school.  And I seemed to have a version of that - I can't be bothered to talk to YOU (me) memory for each of the people in these bar union photos.  Oh boy - I could go - and they could tell me they are still too busy to talk to me - can't be bothered to say hello to you....  

And it turns out - it REALLY irked me that those people could still make me feel like that more than 45 years later, just looking at photos.  I did not care about their opinions then - it was clear that I did not matter to them in school.  Which I didn't care about in school.   And part of suddenly wanting to stitch this.... is a line that ends with.... and endure the betrayal of false friends.  

I can see some of the photos show guys that these cheerleader girls would never have dated, or be seen with, the guys that they are all cozy-cozy with in these bar photos.  And I am not claiming to know all their relationships - but that line about false friends - just fit the mood that I saw in those older reunion photos.  So I just HAD to start it.   

Rose Quaker - Stickideen Von Der Wiehenburg.  Still adding to this.  It kinda screwed me up - one motif had shown as two different numbers.  Why had I picked that number floss?  Had I screwed up and it needed to come out and be re-done in a different color floss?  It was exactly a year since I had last worked on it.  But it was just random it was what I grabbed.  I finished three motifs this time.  I was trying to fill in what was partially started.  The colors are the suggested - per the pattern pages.  Not my favorite colors, but I really didn't have any obvious thoughts on how to make it better. 

Almost....

  Rose Quaker - Stickideen von der Wiehenburg.  This is where I got to before switching back to the red design.  It was time to do the next to pages on the red one.  But it was a good time for a break from this one.

Winter Kaleidoscope - Modern Folk Embroidery.  I just started filling in the frames to complete frames.  Which was me trying to keep going in the last few pages.  

Two of the frames were finished...

Completed that center area, which just leaves the outer frame, and that inner frame.  This is where it is as of this morning.  I'm hoping to finish it yet in April.  The quaker one is sitting near me ready to be picked up again. 

On the health side of things, I donated blood.  Whole blood - and just when I think that nothing new that is weird can happen....  it does.  Skipping the details, I can usually donate a pint in 6 minutes.  From needle in, to needle out.  This time was about 4.5 minutes.  They told me to stay seated, they worry about you being light headed, or getting the blood to stop flowing.  I asked why I was bleeding so fast.  She had simply gotten the needle in the perfect stab, at the perfect angle.  I had drank more water the two days before, last time I did not have enough water in me, so I tried harder this time.  But I have donated 65 times with just this place, and several gallons at other places over the years.  I would donate blood for free, and I have.  But for this donation, I got a $40 gift card.  Every region is different.  But you can go every 56 days, 8 weeks. 

Another New Start....

 Rose Quaker - Stickideen von der Wiehenburg.  Another new start from my pattern stash.  Watched a random floss tube - she talked about stitching it, and I pulled mine out to start it.  This is only three days of stitching on it, and I have the side laid in.  Yeah, not complete, but just the one to fill in a bit more on the edge.  Using the suggested dmc flosses on a 28 count antique white lugana, one over one.  I had not started it before because I was not thrilled with the floss colors.  And doing it, it would probably not be my first choice.  But it's not awful, so I am just rolling with it.  I like quaker, so that part of it makes me hang in there with it, and got me to just start it, rather than debating.... should it all be darker?  All just one color?  The pattern is from when my local needlework shop was going out of business.  It is 8 pages, and I have no pages complete yet.  

Ink Circles - Quaker Geometric Puzzle.  This is basically the first skein of dmc completed.  I'm kinda random, but now I'm kinda trying to keep the light areas light, and the darker things dark.  Again, the camera photos are not great.  And I am not gonna fussy cut to get the colors to land.  And if you have wondered, is there any logic to where I start and stop stitching in any of these things?  At the moment, I'm sometimes trying to complete the skein of floss.  Or the page, or the thread.  Sometimes trying to complete the thread leads me slightly over into the next page.  But that is never a big deal, it is whatever happens is fine. 

I placed another order for stitching things.  A couple patterns, and the flosses I would need to do those, and another pattern I have from a magazine, and I know I have it started, but having the pattern might make it easier.  But no pattern could travel alone....