It's the very beginning of a new year. And here I am this morning, filled to the brim with thoughts of the past- my old days, people that meant something to me and the many many ways I passed my time. All the ancient memories live on in this head of mine. Sometimes they are more vivid to me than what I did yesterday.
December 19 was my mother's birthday. She would have been 93 if she were alive. I've had this Blackbird Designs pattern, What Remains is Love, in my little collection for some time and made a scant beginning on her birthday this year.
I plan to stitch her name on this one. It's Weeks Dye Works 32 count Straw linen.
My only other sentimental stitchery was the one I stitched for Tony and I just after our wedding.
I've finished a few more blocks for the Blackbird Designs Christmas Tablecloth. I'm debating about doing the other appliqued block and maybe switching it out for more patchwork which definitely goes together faster.
I'm about 50 pages into this Pulitzer Prize winning book below which my ex gave me for Christmas. It's posed here with Old Scrooge who has moving head and arms and his candle lights up and who everyone agrees is a little bit creepy.
I'm enjoying Marilynne's writing...kind of quietly interesting. She really takes her time to flesh out characters and get a story told which you might think would be boring, but thanks to the plentifold details and beautiful phrasing is definitely not. I wonder has she written any poetry.
We went to this special hockey game of Robbie's and enjoyed it very much. They billetted two of Japanese players and all had a wonderful time together. Brad has built an even bigger hockey rink in the backyard so the boys had a ball playing at all hours on it.
I wish all reading this the most wonderful New Year; in fact, I hope it's your very best one yet!
