I have sort of set today aside to go to the grocery store, finish a book, and work on my Bristol Redwork Sampler...and, I have done all of those...hoping to continue to stitch on my sampler for the rest of the evening. The first picture shows one of my "displays" of needlework and other objects that are winter and Valentine themed. The 2nd and 3rd photos are of my Bristol Sampler. This is a reproduction of a sampler that was made by two sisters who lived and were schooled in an orphanage in Bristol, England. The original sampler was dated 1875. This is a very large sampler...the biggest that I have ever stitched and I am stitching on quite small count fabric...50 threads per inch and I am stitching over two threads...so...there are about 25 little x's per inch on a line of stitches. I do stitch under a strong magnifier with a light ring surrounding the round magnifier. Plus I do use my 2.5 reading glasses. In the picture that shows the large piece of fabric. The top line of letters shows the width that the sampler will be. The letters and borders that run vertically...well, I have not reached the bottom of the sampler...yet. I think that there are from five to seven inches to go. This is a sampler that I may never finish...just something that I enjoy stitching on off and on. Letters are so easy (most of the time) to stitch and I find them soothing to stitch. The area that I am working on at the moment...in the top left corner...you can see where the needle is will be where I pick up stitching when I get back to it in a little whle. The pin that I placed down in the heart motif is the place I am working toward...that small area will complete one page of the chart. At a glance at the multiple pages that this chart are worked on, it looks like there are sixteen of these pages/sections to stitch to complete the whole sampler. Lots of little x's!!! Currently it measures 17 1/2 inches across (final size) by 18 1/4 long (not the finished size. So that gives you a little taste of what I enjoy doing in my spare time...really just any time, spare or not! As I mentioned at the start of the blog, I did get my book read that would have been whisked away around midnight tonight. Reading, another thing that I enjoy doing in my spare or not so spare time...I have always been a reader. As a child/teen, one of my favorite thing to do was walk to the library and check out an armload of books and carry them back home and stack them up near the side of my bed and then enjoy reading through the stack...always looking forward to my next trek back to the library. That love of reading has never gone away...now I enjoy in-hand bookd, e-books, and audio books...the latter two were not options when I was growing up! A funny aside...on that trek to the library, I always looked forward to coming to the shade of a tree...I grew up in Arizona...so that walk was not always the coolest walk! I can still picture that walk in my mind and can "almost" picture the not always close spacing of those trees. I usually picture myself walking along the sidewalk in front of my elementary school...just one of the places that comes to my mind all these years later. I often made a stop at my father's law office, which was right across the street from the library. Sometimes he and I would go to the cafe next door...for a coke for me and a cup of coffee for him. Good memories! The grocery store was my other accomplishment for the day. I have most of it put away...still have a few things to fit into my pantry...a task that I am leaving for tomorrow. I have been wanting to go through some of the things in my pantry and see if there are things in it that need to be discarded due to expiration dates. I did that task with some condiments in the refrigerator today...little jobs...a little at a time! I did talk to Cheryl, my favorite sister aka only sister, for a while today...I guess our "Valentine call?!" Really it was just a call because, as we always say now that it is so easy to call on cell phones, we call "just because we can!" It is so much easier to call these days in comparison to 56 years ago, when I moved to TN from AZ!!! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious! Here's the photo that I meant to post first...just shows more of the cutlery box:
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