For the Throne

The final season is finally here, and I'm ready for it.  I bought the special edition Oreo cookies for us to eat while we watch the premiere.  I've re-watched all the episodes in preparation.  I even convinced others to re-watch some of them with me so they could better remember what has happened in previous seasons.  I stitched some sigils along the way.  I even tried my hand at stitching on a t-shirt, so there's my viewing outfit ready, too.  

I do feel a bit of sadness that the series is ending, but there you go.  I can use my dishtowel sigil sampler as a giant handkerchief to soak up my tears over all the deaths and the end of the show.  After it's all done, I'll just go back and re-read the first five books while waiting for The Winds of Winter.  Besides, I still have sigils to stitch.   

To Bamboo, or Not To Bamboo--Is That Really a Question?

Well, I've finished a sweater, don't feel like picking up Bridgewater, and the weather has turned a bit bleh, so knitting just isn't really doing it for me.  My inspiration is running a little low.  That can have many causes, but I think a need to straighten and organize is tops on the list this time.  So, I've been doing a bit of that.  Sometimes I get a bit messy when I'm in the midst of things, and that's why I have the same cycle of tidying/creating/messiness repeating.  It's not ideal, but I do find ways to make it work better for me.  When I'm feeling a bit meh about creating, I can clean without taking time away from some project I'd rather be doing.  It also prepares my space for when I am ready to go again and helps me find things.  The other helpful part is rediscovering things I haven't thought about in a while.  It's kind of like the magic of shopping in your own stash.  

In between organizational sessions, I'm weaving.  Once I did the hem-stitching at the beginning of this piece, I was able to get rolling with the weaving, and I think I'm probably somewhere around the halfway point, so that's good.  I think I've decided on the yarn for the Twill Be Done Weave-Along.  I'm having a little trouble focusing on the new-to-me terms associated with this, but I'll get there.  

All of that is well and good, but it doesn't help me with the need to have something to do while I'm sitting on the couch watching television.  So, embroidery, yeah?  That's what I'm thinking.  I stitched a panda on a handkerchief, and I could start a new handkerchief, but I'm thinking of some bamboo on the opposite corner.  What do you think?

     

But It's Such a Good Deal

So, this year I've been playing a bit with embroidery.  I don't have much to show for my efforts, but it's something to do.  So far it's just some handkerchiefs, but I have plans for other things.
  

 





Now would probably be a good time to make the move from planning to doing.  You see, I had an encounter with the clearance bin, and now I have an excess of embroidery floss.  It was so inexpensive that I kept picking up more, but I left piles and piles for other bargain seeking stitchers.  Maybe I will become the embroidery floss fairy and just start giving away the extra.  Do you need any?