I started my Take a Stitch Tuesday sampler on the third. The first stitch was fly stitches, so I made these little square fly stitch motifs. Each Tuesday Sharon Boggon adds a new stitch to experiment with. It's informal, so there's always an opportunity to jump in!
I feel like I'm going so slowly on this project! I know that when I took it back up, I hadn't even started the door, and I've done at least three inches across since then. It's still really dragging to me.
I am subscribed to a Faberge egg series from The Needle House in Houston. It started in November, and, because of the mail situation, this is the only one I've received so far. The stitch guide and materials seem very complete. I hope to finish this one before the end of the year.
I ordered steak (costita) and ended up with a pork steak at this place. It didn't say "du porc"! Anyway, the atmosphere in this place is very Octoberfest. It's even underground and is two huge wooden halls. Of course, they have a lot of beer. When we were there in mid-afternoon, 90% of the customers were just there for beer.
I have three of five parts at least partially filled on this piece. I say partially because I need to go back through with floche and add in another motif in the big part.
There is currently a baby boom at the embassy, both among the locals and the Americans. Threee American spouses are pregnant, out of perhaps twenty-five. Within the past six months, I know of three babies born among the local staff. The latest was born last Wednesday, in Andreas' section. I made this afghan for her.
Mykonos is the Greek restaurant in the mall. It's not great, but it's not bad, and it's not really overpriced. As usual, I started with soup and Andreas started with Greek salad. We had some taziki and our main courses, too. This was a dinner out with several others. They went bowling; we went to see Christmas lights!
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