Fish & Tea

As it turned out, Pisces might not have had any specialty threads, but it has an inordinate number of beads. So many in fact that I have decided that completing it in one go was likely to be 1) not fun 2) highly likely to have mistakes 3) did I mention drive me insane? Anyway – I am going to attempt about 100-150 beads a day till it is complete.

Here was my start today – followed by adding 161 beads..

So, I moved on to Tea-Rex by Silver Creek Samplers. I started it last year, got as far as this –

and realized that there was something wrong with the “E” and put it aside. Today, I decided that this would be a maximum of 2 days and I would have another finish.

The E is now fixed, the X is done as are three more tea cups. This just leaves me one more tea cup and the rest of the tea pot tomorrow.

The Cal Women’s Basketball Team managed to pull off a win this evening. I don’t think it is going to be that easy on Sunday – which is the last home game of the 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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One Response to Fish & Tea

  1. Cat says:

    Tea-rex does look rather fun.
    The beads on the others sound terribly fiddly. I salute your patience!
    But – where are you going to hang all these artworks?

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