And #27 for the year

In spite of errands, distractions, Costco and other such time consumers, I managed to sit down to stitch late afternoon. Silhowitches was released by Teresa Kogut in 2021 if I remember correctly and I started it sometime in 2022. Obviously, from the 2023 I had gone ahead and placed in the upper right corner, I planned on finishing it last year. But there was a slight matter of floss. And time and energy. But anyway – I started the piece with Vampy from Leo&Roxy (now RoxyFlossCo) and was afraid that I would run out. After searching through the stash, I located a couple more skeins. I am not sure what the original green was, but in the end I used DMC 704. It took a total of 3588 stitches to complete the piece.

from here, it is primarily SALs left to finish of previous year projects. My goal is to finish the year – if not sooner with no projects left over from prior to this year.

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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