I haven’t posted anything in awhile and this is to let you
all know what I’ve been doing.
Dollhouse Enclosure Project
When I last wrote I had been working to enclose one of my
dollhouses. I do have the necessary
epoxy type glue that should work to adhere the Velcro strips to the plastic
sheets. Presently, I’m waiting for it
to get warmer here so that I can have the windows open while using the
toxic-smelling glue.
Rhoda Caroline Richardson Womble Research
I’m still waiting for the copies of the membership records
of the Womble family from the Elm Street Methodist Church that I ordered from
the Archivist at the Tennessee Conferences Archives, History Depository. I called them a couple of weeks back to find
out what had happened with the copies that were going to be mailed to me. The woman I spoke with said that the
minister told her he probably mailed them to the wrong address. I gave her my address again and was told
that they would be sent to me within a couple of days. I’m considering that if I don’t receive them
in a few days that I’ll send them a SASE asking for the information again,
which is probably what I should have done initially, but I wasn’t sure how much
10 pages of information would cost to mail.
Embroidery/Knitting Projects
What I’ve been doing while waiting for these much
anticipated copies is working on Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum’s “Once Upon A Time”
that I’m making for one of my sisters.
I had barely started it when I first purchased it back in 1995 and only
started dedicating a serious chunk of my time to work on the piece in January
2012. I’ve been trying to spend most of
my weekends stitching and this past week even decided to work on it a bit
during the week.
At the same time that I’m cross-stitching this, I’m also knitting a cable knit sweater of which is about a little over halfway done. One of the knitting blogs I read suggested working on more knitting projects at one time—basically to stop being a knitting monogamist. I considered this and then while spending so much time cross-stitching during this long holiday weekend on the piece for my sister, the idea came to me to take up embroidering more projects at one time. Basically, to stop being an embroidery monogamist!
At the same time that I’m cross-stitching this, I’m also knitting a cable knit sweater of which is about a little over halfway done. One of the knitting blogs I read suggested working on more knitting projects at one time—basically to stop being a knitting monogamist. I considered this and then while spending so much time cross-stitching during this long holiday weekend on the piece for my sister, the idea came to me to take up embroidering more projects at one time. Basically, to stop being an embroidery monogamist!
I won’t try this though until after my current embroidery
project is completely finished!
Reading
I recently finished reading Edith Wharton’s The Age of
Innocence, a book that I’ve always wanted to read. Another book that I’ve finished reading is While
My Pretty One Knits from the Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries series. This
seemed to be a better read than the knitting mysteries written by Maggie
Sefton, which after reading 2 ½ of them-the third I just couldn’t finish. I do really like the characters in Maggie’s
books, but by the third mystery the story seemed to be too much of a rehash of
the first two books in the series. It
was a bit disappointing to me not to finish the third, A Deadly Yarn
because the budding romance between the main character and one of the guys on
the local softball team interested me, the people in knitting group were great
too. I can see I’m digressing here and
will have to post something just about knitting mysteries or craft mysteries in
general at a later date.
