Oi

Wow - that stupid HSG triggered my fibromyalgia and a week of hand and arm spasms that still hasn't really let up. Argh! I am 162 QA digests behind, and I will NOT delete them unread, so I guess I had better get busy!

Remember I said that I was doing a bunch of cross stitch and planned to do more? WHAT WAS I THINKING!?!?!?! If I am using my own design, or a nice British pattern (fewer outlines and blendings, as a general rule) then no problem, but Teresa Wenzler (sp?) didn't even put a cohesive thread list for the 150+ threads in her albeit gorgeous pattern! YIKES! The long and the short of it is that the same shop carries Patarnayan wools, which I thought I had lost my only local supplier of about 8 years ago, so I am now freely admitting that I am a needlepointer, and I just need to get over it. :) I started a piece last week that is already burbling along nicely, and will more than suffice when my body and brain go, but my arms are willing. My arms *aren't* particularly willing atm, but I am more stubborn than my pain is! Roar!

Meanwhile, my husband, my cats and their ensuing 1/2 gallon spill, and my varied and sundry embroidery projects have taken over my studio. I might not be up for getting any quilt art work done today, but I WILL clean up the MESS!!!

Any other medieval reenactors out there? I've been playing with the SCA for about 20 odd years now, and have amassed an absurd quantity of fabric for garb that never got made. Add to this that we hope to move next year.... trouble!!!! Part of me thinks 'get rid of *fabric*? Are you KIDDING?' and part of me says 'girl, you've had most of it for at LEAST 10 years - barter or just plain give it away, but *get it the heck out of your basement*!!!!!' So far I am doing really well at leaning towards the latter, and just read that our local chapter is even *planning* for a barter day at our next event on May 7. Might be hard to pass up the opportunity. Plus, I might even a) get some other cool stuff for DH and I, b)make a little money (gasp), c)actually get my woodshop back, d)get to see my bounty adorning our lovely local populace and thus be dubbed Albreda the Benefabricprovider! Yeah right. Downside? I'd have to ask DH to do yet another favor for me (being laid up sucks) and bring all the stuff up from downstairs, out to the car, etc, deal with the inevitable mildew that has accumulated on my sealed containers, and, maybe most importantly, just plain give up on getting my studio back for the time it takes to sort the whole mess. Sigh. I still think it is worth it, especially since it will free up the containers for general moving-related packing...

My favourite room in my house? My living room/studio (actually 2 rooms with French doors between them). Why? 6 huge floor to cathedral ceiling windows and 7 skylights, all with a southern exposure and a view out over our overgrown backyard! tough to beat the bennies of sunlight when you live in northern Vermont... (except that I have to be on constant guard to prevent fabric fading! Got some neat albeit inadvertant effects though, so it could be worse.)