Sunday, August 31, 2014

Poppy Done

Well, it's done and I don't like the results.  This one I'm going to blame on the directions.  It seems the designer was not familiar with the threads actually in the kit, which resulted in lack of coverage on the border.  The instructions were perfunctory and hard to follow.  The chart was unclear. And I really hated working it.  It's done now, so it's one more piece off my list!  I learned to not start something without proper instructions.

Toppling A Dictator

 In the center of Brasov there is a small park with about three dozen graves.  All of the fallen were killed or injured during the uprising against Ceacescu in 1989-1990.  The youngest is six years old.  This area is revered and taken care of and shows the price of freedom very starkly.






Friday, August 29, 2014

Chips!

The last footprint of the Stephans in Moldova is gone.  Brian left yesterday to be home with his family and start a new assignment in South Carolina.  We will miss them.  Brian, on his last trip back here, brought me four bags of dill pickle chips from Jen.  Andreas immediately appropriated one, leaving me three.  I've been nursing them along, as there's just no way to get them here.

Another Flutter


I've started the second butterfly and I'm almost to the right edge of the piece.  It's not a very  tall piece, so I hope it goes fairly quickly.  I'd like to have several things on my current rotation done before I start the Christmas push in October.

Cthulu Crest

The very first thing I thought when I saw Brasov's city crest was "Cthulu!" The roots of the tree under the crown definitely remind me of this.  Brasov's crest goes back to the middle ages when it was named Kronstadt and was a Saxon enclave.  It was the first town in Romania to embrace the Reformation, too.  I still think it's Cthulu.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Veined

I have the first leaf completely done now and am working on some grapes.  It's even got the inner veins stitched.  Onward!

All About Andreas

My husband's hat and arrows.