Tempus Fugit

 Time really does fly by, a lot faster than we like to think.  I keep procrastinating reviving my blog, but I'm here today and ready to get started.  True to the title of my blog, I've read many books over the past three years and I've stitched a few samplers.  I'm looking forward to sharing what I'm doing now.

Still stitching and reading

 I've been intending to update my blog for a long time, and now I'm finally actually doing it.  For the past year or so, I haven't done much stitching.  Lately, I've been working on a very long term UFO.  When it's done, I'll post a photo with the relevant information.

I'll also post about the next book I read, but I haven't chosen it yet.

Happy New Year!

Still Here

Still here, still reading and stitching, but letting time pass and not blogging.  I finished an old project last year, and I'm working on another old project this year.  Hopefully by Easter it will be done.

This year I'm revisiting one of my favorite mystery series, featuring Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, written by James Lee Burke.  There are 22 novels in the series, and I'm on book 2, Heaven's Prisoners.  (This was also made into a movie starring Alec Baldwin.)

And now for something completely different

For Christmas, I received instructions and fabric to make a quilt wall hanging of a snowman.  I've got the snowman embroidered and have to start assembling the border.  I also have to get out my sewing machine and set it up.  It's a lovely project, & I'm enjoying working on it.

I'm also working on a ufo, a cyber class offered by The Embroiderers' Guild of America last year, called Time to be Happy.  It's a lovely band sampler stitched with silk threads on linen.  I've just finished the third of eight lessons. 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  Like this deer, I'm hoping that the warmer weather will come back soon.  2017 was a busy year, but I can't say that I got very much stitching done.  I read a lot of books, however, from the last eight novels of the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke, to two very good novels, The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry and The Glass Blower of Murano by Marina Fiorato, to  a biography of Galileo and his eldest daughter, Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel.

This year, I intend to finish up some UFO's and read more books I've been meaning to get to.  And, hopefully, blog a little more often.

A few things

A shelfie of some of my favorite books.

A future project.  Fabric books have intrigued me for a while.  This project has the added appeal of recycling old computer program manuals, or at least the binders they came in.

One of my latest reads, and a bookmark that combines hardanger and scrapbooking.

Recent purchases at a local library sale.  Libraries rule!

What's today's date?

So I have a real problem with procrastination and looking at the calendar.  Until the end of March, it still felt like December to me.  Then it snowed, and looked more like December than March.  But now it's summer and I really need to post something this year.

What have I been working on?  Sudoku - finished.  Hapsburg Lace - started.  This and that.  A lot of ideas, but not much action.

What am I reading?  Right now, a book of short stories about Rumpole of the Bailey, by John Mortimer.  Love his sense of humor.

Some photos:

Sudoku

Hapsburg Lace, designed by Tanja Berlin

TAST Challenge at Pintangle