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...
