and on to Earth

This is the last planet that I need to stitch. Beyond that – there is a comet and a number of floating chunks of this and that. It should be complete by the end of the week. Then I need to pick up Libra.

With Chart #4 in the Fabulous Houses series just released, I decided that I should go ahead and just start the Greenhouse (#3). The fabric is Zweigert’s Vintage Stormy Clouds in 18ct. I am using the same fabric for all of the houses. It has left me with the dilemma of needed to make a color change or two. The called for 3865 just doesn’t show up at all, nor really does white. So I have substituted B5200 for those areas that need actually white, and went with DMC 002 for the outline of the greenhouse. This also makes a bit more sense to me since I think of old fashion green houses as having iron frames. And then there is the added advantage of showing up clearly…

As such patterns goes, this one is several thousand stitches smaller than the first two in the series…. Also part of my rationale for going ahead and starting it…

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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