fly-by-posting: 2025/10/19 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2025/10/19 (w/pic)

Last weekend I spent 5 hours patching a bedsheet.  Yes, I know, my intense party lifestyle astounds. To be fair, I hadn’t intended to spend 5 hours at it, but I’d already patched this sheet a lot over the years, and it needed something of an overhaul to hope I could get it to limp along longer than just one or two more cycles. Here’s a picture of one section of it, on my side of the bed.  Have I…

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New Cross-stitch Completed: The Stargazer

New Cross-stitch Completed: The Stargazer

This summer I finished another cross-stitch. Like the last one I posted about, this is also a Mirabilia Designs cross-stitch (from a pattern released in 2006), and is called The Stargazer. As you will see, it’s not a particularly colorful design (so many different blues!). But, I’m a sucker for star-themed images to start with, and I feel like this design has such an elegant balance, I just couldn’t resist it. One thing I love about cross-stitches is how the…

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