Every year, this day

If Sjogren's had not stolen my tears, there would be a river.

The sadness in my heart every year on this day cannot be taken away.

That generation has always held my heart.  Mom's neighbor's concentration camp tattoo, my cousin's life altering visit to Auschwitz, the photos of suffering and evil, the brave young men that faced this battle, the mothers saying goodbye, those left in foreign lands.

Forever grateful.

How many will be here to honor next year?

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What's the point?

 Wonk by one!

This is a simple in and out stitch, but a troublemaker.  Taking my time, stitch a point, frog a point.  But that's so easy to do with satin stitch.  

I thought the third one was a little hippy but assumed it was because of thicker linen threads since a placement error could not be found. 

 I separated the threads (Colour and Cotton Eucalyptus) several times until finally...

found it.

Since frogging this is so simple and to me, a noticeable error, I will correct it.  And then miss the correct hole several more times.  But eventually, this thankfully not wide row will be completed.  Tension is always an issue with my stitches and quite tricky with these long loose satins.  

This is the section at my Hobby Lobby that has the 46 count in Cream and Oat colors, also a selection of Aida and others.

Tins, fancy pins, needle minders, quite a few doodads.  The green case is a needlebook on ?felt? with several interior pages of the same.

I bought another in Oat and lightly sprayed to darken.  Warmer tan and very close to my favorite Winter Brew, so I did the other two with the same Rit mix and mottled it darker.

Hope your week is going well.

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Portulaca!

 Working outside this afternoon.  Was planning to burn this toolbox until I spotted these portulacas at the greenhouse.

  Mom had them every year, started from seed.  I got several packs for Carole's narrow planter, perfect for such a display.

Benezet has become a difficult task.  The satin pickets are ten high, spaced two threads vertical but one thread horizontal.  I tried doing two linen threads but the picket became too wide.  Tonight I will use the Dazor to align top with bottom poke, and make sure the two down but one over is correctly placed.  Am I explaining that correctly?  

Hope you had a nice day.

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1782

 Since this will be finished into some sort of bag/pouch (it looks medieval to me), it needs more length and omitting the numeric row is a bad idea.  So I charted the date 1782 (from the history) in place of the numbers.  

 Adding a strip of leather to the bottom of this bag is being considered. 

As of now, the leather strip would be beneath the pickets, no bottom border, should result in a good length.

But maybe a wide ornate frame would be better?  Hmmm.

This is the info on the back of the chart regarding this unusual style.

Cross Stitch Antiques

Benezet Alphabet Sampler

Have a good day folks.

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Numbers

To stitch or not to stitch...

that is the question. 

Moving up to the top border until I decide. The satin peaks at the bottom will be another color change to more teal, as seen in the original.

My furnace has run for two days.  

Crabby doesn't even come close.

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Progressing

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