I even did some more!

First things first, thank you all for your kind words. It's about time I actually got some stitching done, eh?

Happy Post-Memorial Day. I hope you all had a peaceful weekend. Maybe you domestic types spent Sunday evening like I did – watching PBS’ Memorial Day Concert.

It made me cry like always, but nonetheless kudos to Gary Sinise for a nice showing as host.

In honor of the day I spent part of Monday on a little Memorial stitching


As you can probably read in the picture, that’s JBW’s Red, White, and Blue limited edition kit from 2001. It worked quickly and without undue frogging vexation.

But if you want to discuss frogging vexation let’s talk about my Sunday stitching choice

Trilogy’s Gathering of Hearts. It hadn’t been out of the bag in probably a year. How embarrassing is that? Sure, I got done what I aimed to, namely the top part of the heart and the box around the heart, but for crying out loud the bottom part of the box was out to get me. I ended up having to frog close to a dozen times. And half of those times were AFTER I’d tied off. Sigh. It was out to get me. But it does look cool, doesn’t it?

Aside from the above, I also managed to finish a bunny ornie

for the Brides Tree SAL and make a start on another ornie--

This one is by Cherished Stitches from one of the JCS ornie magazines. Sure, I shouldn’t have started new things, but I wanted to do ornies AND I wanted to feel accomplishful AND I wanted to stitch in silk (both of these two are in Vikki Clayton’s). Now, you say, Ruth, old friend, isn’t a lot of the wing that you need to stitch for the Halloween Fairy in silk? Why, yes! It is. Still, somehow, that wasn’t the silk that called to me at midnight. lol Yeah, I’m weird. So sue me.

I really like this being accomplishful. Hmmm possibly it should be a trend? Not only did I stitch a lot, but I also plowed through a pile of wonder-what’s-on-this videos. Over the course of the last 5 days I watched 5 of the 6 Star Wars movies (thanks for the loan, Luce), 3-4 Doctor Whos, 5-6 Sarah Jane Adventures, Sex and Mrs X (such a fun movie), probably 20 Perry Masons, a couple Numbers, a couple Bones, a couple Burn Notices, a couple Cook’s Tours, and 3-4 episodes of Carrier. Yeah, I was a lot behind. There’s still 4 videos in the “current” behind pile, but that’s darn good for me. I’m thinking tonight might be an “antique tape” night. I have quite the collection of languishing videos. The only problem was all this stitching and viewing gave me a bruised tail bone from sitting on my bed for hours on end. Note to self—more wandering around cleaning is required for long weekends!

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Recently finished: Algis Budrys’ Unexpected Dimension – wonderful anthology of stories surrounding death. It’s not nearly as depressing as it sounds like it would be. The last story, “The Executioner,” is my personal favorite.
Also recently “finished:” Jeff Prucher’s Brave New Worlds: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction—it’s ok. Not perfect, not wonderful, but usable and worthy I suppose. Lots of key scifi words and concepts are defined – first briefly in standard dictionary-form, then in a series of dated examples of the word in use in scifi-related texts. My issue is that the definitions relating to fandom terms frequently use other fandom terms that are not themselves included in the dictionary. Memo to dictionary writers, definer the words you use to define words.
Probably about to start: Charlaine Harris’ Dead Until Dark although maybe it’ll be Robinson’s Gilead which has been languishing for a year.