Stitching the Scroll

I'm three weeks into 2023 with my calendar stitch scroll project, and so far I haven't missed a day.

I'm basing the thread colors I choose for each day on my mood (green being the best; yellow being the worst), and if my hands are giving me serious trouble I do just a line of running stitches. I've also beaded a couple of days' efforts, but I am trying to resist the temptation (otherwise the whole thing would be beaded.)

Some surprises: I didn't think my moods changed that much, but from the color variety I guess they're rather mercurial. The stitching on the back of the linen looks almost as good as the front. Linen is a pain to embroider with certain kinds of threads (boucle just constantly snags) but is also very forgiving. So I'm learning a lot, too.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

In the Kitchen Garden

Our strawberries are taking over the kitchen garden, but I don't mind. This week I want to make some strawberry banana nice cream (a vegan version of ice cream) and maybe a chocolate cake with berries and cream for the topping. There's thyme in the garden now, too, which I'll dry and jar for cooking along with the chives and the oregano. Next we'll plant cucumbers, as I use a ton of those in our salads and for snacks.

Rayen

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