Frog Pond

Posted on 2022-07-17 by Holly

and no lily pad.

There are days on which (in which?) attempting to accomplish anything is not a good idea. So it went today. Probably the only thing I successfully managed was cooking dinner. 

First I wanted to complete the Banshee – this week’s entry in the Supernatural SAL.

So I happily stitched the frame, then started the interior before electing to extend the outside border along  the side. Then I realized that the two boarders weren’t matching up the way they should.

See those little bumps along the inside of the Banshee’s frame? There should be four of them, not three..

So I carefully picked out the 350+ stitches that had been added today. So I moved on to the Bear (Part of the Cottage Garden Samplings series) and hit a “one stitch off section” 

Obviously, stitching is not going well today and it is time to move on to something easy, like simple mosaic computer games. Who came up on the first entry?

*both stitchers and knitters use the term “frogging” because you “rip it, rip it” all out.

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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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2 Responses to Frog Pond

  1. AlisonH says:
    2022-07-18 at 08:14

    Someone who says you need to kiss him because he’s a prince. For real. Just, y’know, incognito.

    Reply

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