Looking Like A House

This is, finally, really looking like a house.  Yay!  It must mean I'm almost done.  I've gotten several lines past the halfway mark on the pattern, at least.

Dining Textiles

A few days after we got back from Texas, we ate at Roata Vremii (Yes, really, two i's at the end.  One day I will explain Romanian  pronunciation.)  The first thing I noticed when we sat down was the table runner.  I made Andreas immediately take pictures before it was covered in food.  Although the embroidery goes all the way through the selvage, when you look at it carefully, you can see that it's done by hand.  Red and black on white are the traditional colors, and this particular design looks like pattern darning.  I'll chart it out some time this winter, when I have more time.  Anyway, thought you'd like to see some local embroidery!


An actual food review will follow tomorrow, along with pictures of their private tour of their museum a waiter gave us.  Fascinating.

Working The Curls

Lots of little  curly bits on this bottom part; all the middle mandala is stitched, but not beaded.  Maybe I'll finish this in a month or so!

Up The Side

Why is it that so many patterns that come in pieces start from the bottom up?  This drives me nuts.  I prefer to work top down, left to right.  A lot of these are bottom up, right to left.  I guess I could just work the pattern upside down, but that feels wrong to me, too.  Ah well.  On a brighter note, I've made a good start on part eight of Sweet Flowers and hope to have it done in time for the next part out later this month.

Lunch At Bailey's

 Our last real lunch in the US was at Bailey's in the West Seventh Corridor in Fort Worth.  It's a somewhat upscale place on the verge of closing - there are just too many restaurants for the population in the area now.  They're evidently known for their hamburgers, but I had a steak sandwich.  It was great!  Mom had the scallop lunch special, and Andreas had the burger.  His burger was huge and came with condiments that looked like they belonged in such an upscale place.


My steak sandwich was on a good Italian bread and the steak was perfectly done.   It was pre-sliced too, so it was less messy to eat than some I've had.  

Spindle Practice

My students wanted some spindle practice before putting them into the wraps and spindles temari, so we did one with just spindles.  This is mine!

Second Challenge Ornament Done

A second ornament of three done on the Winter in July challenge.  Yay!  This one was fairly quick to stitch.  I won't get the third done - it's only about halfway, but it's very big for an ornament.