Gentle Friends, here's a snap of where I left off on my new stitch...
I am just moving along ain't I?? (can you read the sarcasm??) I was held up waiting for the "Espresso" floss to arrive, got impatient and tried another floss colour and found it too black so I ended up frogging that out, then the "Espresso" arrived and although it looks black in the snap, it's really brown/black colour. I'm glad I ordered and then restitched...
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Gentle Friends, I've not been posting much... one reason is that I've not been stitching at all for the last month or more... I guess I was just not enthused enough to stitch or bored, or just plain lazy... and then there's watching all that TikTok, which is probably going to disappear, but who really knows...
When Christmas rolled around and I still hadn't picked up the needle - I started thinking about my needlework and asked myself "Why do I stitch?" I had some answers...for pleasure, and to relax - two pretty good reasons, at least in my small world. In fact, the only reason I stitch is for pleasure - so I figured if it brought no pleasure then why stitch?? So, I thought about that revelatory nugget for a hot minute and concluded I should just put away ole "Frederick" until next Fall and get a new project going that would be "a pleasure" or at the very least something different to work on...
I went to the pile of stash, which seems to grow constantly, to find something I wanted to stitch but for reasons unknown is now on the pile of things "I'm going to stitch at some far distant point down the road." I fiddled about for a few minutes, found a chart, picked some linen, and pulled the bulk of the overdyed flosses et voila...a new start on January 1st...
"Brother's Keeper" - Plum Street Samplers
40ct "Thyme Goes By" Seraphim Hand Dyed Fabric by Laurie
Called for Overdyed Floss
There you go, not really something I usually do, putting aside a project and starting another...we'll see how this goes and If I'll stick...but I really like this chart, ten equal squares with all sorts of fun bits to stitch!
Gentle Friends, last night we attended a lovely Christmas Eve service at Most Holy Redeemer, then we got home a little after 11pm and watched Pope Francis open the Holy Door at St Peter's for the Jubilee Year of 2025. This morning was low-key...I made some sausage pinwheels, a tradition in my family forever. In the early afternoon, we sat down to Christmas dinner.
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This evening our next-door neighbors brought over a big plate of latkes for the beginning of Hanukkah and a little Christmas present...
... so we got out the sour cream and they were delicious!!
Gentle Friends, our Christmas week started with our annual attendance at last night's performance by the San Francisco Ballet of "The Nutcracker." We have been going to see performances of The Nutcracker for quite a few years, it never gets old and is always the beautiful event we've really come to love. Here are some snaps I stole off the internet...
... pictures during the performance are Verboten!! so I verbote... but I found a YouTube of a bit of the SF performance, I hope you'll enjoy!!
The Dance of the Flowers is so lovely...
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After the performance, I was feeling a bit peckish AND had found out earlier from doing a search online with the McRib Locator which McDonald's in SF had the McRib, so we headed further downtown to the only McDonald's that the McRib had been sited at... way down on 6th and Market Street.... it is a terrible neighbourhood, and we couldn't find parking so headed home. I'm certainly not dodging bullets and crack dealers, even for a McRib!!! The 6th Street Micky D's was the only place on the McRib locator that said they had them, so I was disappointed.
We ended up just driving over to the McD's close to our home in Noe Valley and low and behold a true Christmas miracle... the MickyD's on Bayshore had them AND has a drive-thru, so no parking issues...
I got myself two, one for last night and one for breakfast this morning, I'm crazy, yes, it's scary unidentified pressed meat., yes, and covered with overly sweet BBQ sauce, yes..... but when I can get me a McRib this ole guy is gonna get himself a McRiB!!! Rico will not eat one, so he got a Quarter Pounder...
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That's about it for today sports fans. I have quite a bit of prep work to do for Christmas Dinner tomorrow, we have 10pm Mass tonight so the day is booked up. Have a super Christmas Eve!
