Another Lost Weekend…

For the third week in a row, I spent Saturday on the east coast. This time it was a meeting of the Orange Blossom Sampler Guild. There were twelve of us at the meeting, most of whom had driven to the coast from the Orlando area. We moved the meetings to Cocoa because we’d been told there were a score of stitchers in that area who were eager to join a sampler guild but didn’t want to drive into the Orlando metro area. We’ve yet to see any of them at our meetings and, while I like the people and we’ve found a nice (and free) room in which to meet, I have to admit, it’s a l-o-o-ng way to go for a few hours of sitting and stitching.

I’m kind of looking forward to next weekend when the alarm clock won’t go off at o’dark-thirty of a Saturday morning (especially since it will be very dark at that hour, thanks to daylight savings time arriving early…again..still.

I continuted the embroidery theme last night and into today because today really was my last chance to stitch up the model for the Penny Rug class I’m going to be teaching for my Embroiderers’ Guild chapter in April. (It’s not that the chapter members don’t trust me, but they do prefer to see a sample of what they’re going to be doing at a meeting before they’re expected to pay attention to the instructions for how to do it.)

It’s about five inches square and made with acrylic felt (recycled acrylic felt, actually — from old soda bottles) rather than the wool felt of the originals. Then again, the originals were a way of getting one final use out of a threadbare coat or other heavy garment, so I feel that I’m keeping with the spirit of the original technique.

With any luck, tomorrow will be a quiet, productive day. I’d like to get a thousand or so words added to Modern Magic (and maybe figure out how to hack the background color of the blog so it coordinates a little better with the borders and title.

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