Happy Spring and believe me, it couldn’t come fast enough! In addition to the world being in flames, the situation on the SFO ranch is not much better. So life has definitely gotten in the way of sewing, but after two weeks of not posting, I hope I have enough progress to share.
Can’t get enough of me? I did get another YouTube video up with this free Lucky Spot Placemat design– don’t miss out, even if you have to fast forward through my slow drawl of instructions.
I have now finally mastered the sound track lessons of video production– music, cutting out the words, UM and LIKE and SO, which comprise a bigger part of my vocabulary than I realized. And not a moment too soon– I am losing my gypsies in less than a week!
This is one of the things that is making me really sad, but I’m trying to remember if COVID had not intervened, the artist-in-residence would never have come home, never discovered that she loved the mountain, and never found the great love of her life.
So off they go to walk from Georgia to Maine. You can always count on me for overthinking, and in my heart I know they will come back completely different people than when they left.
So you all gave them their start on YouTube– “GYPSY TRAILS.” And thanks to YOU– you gave them over 1,000 subscribers on their channel throughout the course of the Christmas stitch-a-long. But now they have over 2,000 subscriber and WAY MORE watch hours than me– heehee. So there’s some catching up to do. If you want to start watching the hike, check their channel in about two weeks. It’s as good as reality TV gets! I’m also watching a channel called “Jay Wanders Out” and he’s a couple of months ahead of them. It’s fun to just let YouTube videos roll while you sew, even when the embroidery machine is running at full tilt!
To console myself in the past couple of week, I took a virtual trip to Hawaii:
Block #7 is almost done– they are all colored differently and this one was not one of my favorites– too much pink, and not very colorful. I caught myself thinking about how it could be improved with a little of the green or purple. God help me if I try to think up my own colorations! This is supposed to be my “mindless” activity.
Backstitch was made for typography, but look how even the pumpkin is crisp and brought to life.
(in the dry sense of humor we all share):
So this week, we were in the ER for a sharp hip pain, which we assumed was just a muscle strain, and that is not what it turned out to be as you can probably guess. We will know more tomorrow.
grace, strength, and dignity. We’ve all gotten this far– we can get a little further.
One Stitch at a Time 
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