January 1, 2012

• Stitching alliteration

  During the Thanksgiving break, when Suzanne was home, we were talking about our wall of cross stitch pictures.  Well, the wall we want to have our cross stitch pictures on.  So far, we have two, and this is how it all came about.  Many years ago, I received a Paula Vaughn cross stitch book of pictures with quilts in them, for each month.  I decided that I wanted to stitch the pictures of the months that represented birthdays in our family.  Easy at first, as there were only 5 of us!  But I didn't get them stitched very quickly.  I started the January picture, but as my eyes were getting older and I was still trying to work out using my contacts to include my normal nearsightedness and my then-recent farsightedness, or presbyopia - you know, when you have to hold the book waaaaay out to see - I really couldn't see to cross stitch, so I gave it up for about 10 years.  Suzanne finished that January picture for me and we had it framed and put on the wall -
  
                                        
  
  January has my birthday, and Jim's is in February.  But I got caught up in quilting and knitting and smocking and I finally did go back to cross stitch, after I discovered that first bifocals and now progressive lenses are the answer to my vision problems, when I wanted to cross stitch Christmas stockings for my grandchildren to go with others I had made for the rest of us.  But I never got back to those pictures.  But Suzanne did!  And one year, she surprised me with the February picture all completed!
  
                                        
  
  So, now we have two -
  
                                        
  
  And now I want the rest of them up there, which I realize will take awhile with sons-in-law and grandchildren!  Fortunately, some of the months overlap.  So, I had actually started April a year or so ago, but again, put it down to do other things and didn't work on it.  So, Suzanne and I came up with a challenge for ourselves.  I will stitch the April picture, and she will stitch the June picture (her birthday month is April and Amanda's birthday month is June - we are doing the sisters first), and we will finish by Thanksgiving of 2012, a year from when we talked about it.  So, Suzanne said, "Let's come up with an alliteration, like you and Betsy do for reading!"
  
  So, here ya go - our 2012 stitching alliteration -
  
  Stitching Some Specifically Selected Sewing Scenes to Sustain the Succession of Specialized Seasonal Samplers
  
  That is my 2012 stitching challenge!  I will keep y'all up on my progress!
  
  Meanwhile, my reading this year will start, tonight, with one of these:
  
                                       
  
                                        
  
  And here are the books I mentioned in my last post, that Betsy and Andrew gave me -
  
                                      
  
                                      
  
  Looks like I will have a busy year!
  
  

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