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February 8, 2013

This and that

by chuckofish

February is a month for catching up on dormant needlepoint projects,

Progress!

Progress!

organizing drawers,

drawer

and reading

febbooks

I am almost finished with Wendell Berry’s Hannah Coulter and I highly recommend it.

“As I have told it over, the past visible again in the present, the dead living still in their absence, this dream of time seems to come to rest in eternity. My mind, I think, has started to become, it is close to being, the room of love where the absent are present, the dead are alive, time is eternal, and all the creatures prosperous. The room of love is the love that holds us all, and it is ours. It goes back before we were born. It goes all the way back. It is Heaven’s. Or is it Heaven, and we are in it only by willingness. By whose love…do we love this world and ourselves and one another? Do you think we invented it ourselves? I ask with confidence, for I know you know we didn’t.”

What have you been doing?

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March 7, 2012

Making progress

by chuckofish

Last month I blogged about getting back to my unfinished needlepoint project, “Naxos Cat” by Ehrman Tapestry’s Elian McCready. I am determined to finish it and I have made progress recently. Let’s hear it for me!

I also bought this pillow at a recent estate sale. It is a large needlepoint picture of Edinburgh Castle. Isn’t it great? It needs to be made into a new pillow, losing its black polyester frame and backing, but I really love it.

I am looking forward to a trip to the world-famous needlepoint store in this flyover state, The Sign of the Arrow. Daughter #1 worked there when she was in high school and once took a call from Kate Spade New York asking about finishing costs. But then, Kate Spade is a flyover girl herself, so she would be in the know.

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January 24, 2012

In the bleak midwinter

by chuckofish

It’s that time of year when we stay in a lot. It is a good time to clean closets, organize drawers and cupboards, and…needlepoint. I have done a lot of needlepoint in my time:

I love these elephants from Ehrman Tapestry in England.

…and this exotic blue water bird.

Not to mention these great bees on a brick = doorstop! Brilliant.

I did this millefleur design many years ago.

And this hooty owl as well. Now I am trying to psyche myself into getting back to my needlepoint, which I abandoned a few years ago as a really challenging Ehrman design and my failing eyesight combined to thwart my good intentions. Sigh. I am inspired by a friend of mine who turns 91 this year and still makes a lot of her own clothes! What do you think?

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