silvercat17

Recent-ish Stuff

(Originally posted at https://wp.me/p2sEtx-G0)

I’m running two communities on Dreamwidth that you should check out.

I was given the Writers Cafe from the previous admin and I made Just Create. Every Friday I post a check-in to share what people have done, seen, made, or read and then Saturday or Sunday they each get a session for making stuff.

If you’d like a community to encourage you on, come check them out.

We had a roadrunner in the yard. If you haven’t seen them in person, they’re pretty large birds – probably the size of a parrot.

Closer view of a roadrunner sitting on a fence

I also finally finished the sampler I started before I went to the Netherlands! (I worked on it very intermittedly). The plan was for every line to be a different stitch, but one of the ones I planned didn’t look good as a straight line so I reused one.

I still need to wash and frame it and then it’ll go in my pink bathroom.

Pink, purple, and lavender embroidery sampler in the hoop. The sampler is a heart made of straight lines and each line is a different kind of stitch.

So the stitches, from left to right are:

French knots, which are a pain

Herringbone stitch

Double knot stitch

Chain stitch

Star stitch

Cable stitch

Fern stitch

Zigzag stitch

Open Cretan stitch

Coral stitch

Threaded running stitch

Chain stitch again

Twisted chain stitch

Chevron stitch

and Seed stitch, which was fun

The original one I based it off of use only seven stitches which I thought was lazy.

I’ve also been downloading a bunch of tabletop rpgs and I’m looking to start playing online (probably through Google Hangouts or Roll20). I’m also going to be doing solo games and I’ll share some of those here.

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