Happenstance is sublime and so is stitching...

 Did you ever read the exact right thing at the right time?   Happenstance is such cool beans...


Last week I found a quote that wrapped and stuck a bow on my state of  mehness; totally explained how I feel.  I thought it was winter but Henry might be right, it might  be -- Old.


"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." ~ Henry Ford


No idea how Henry knew I've been feeling creaky and flat but I decided to take his advice and learn me something new.  


And since I'm so way, way, deep down in the doldrums (I'm measuring my distance from chipper in light years) I wanted to learn something fun.  Something bright and cheery, something kinda artistic too.  But  wacky.  Oh. And cheap too. (I won't be picking up gold-leafing any time soon.)

I decided on embroidery.

I always pick up other people's  embroidery at thrift stores so I thought, Why not?   The supplies are minimal, it's not (all that) time consuming and when I'm done I'll have something concrete.  Something I can hold in my hands and feel  warm-fuzzy accomplishment about.


 I just had to find something fun to embroider. No problem, stitichable fun found at Sublime Stitching.  "This ain't your gramma's embroidery!™, they say on their site.  And so true.  

I bought two heat-transferable patterns, $5 each - and they are on sale for the next few days for half that.  CRAZY! - Or should I say, Krazy.   I got Krazy Kitchen and Vintage Lamps.  

I made my first poke this afternoon on a flour sack kitchen towel.

It's the timer from Krazy Kitchen.

I kinda love it, and not awful for a first try, right?

Can't decide if the timer needs more do-dah and if  the towel needs more tarting up, but I will definitively do more embroidery (probably tomorrow).  This was way fun, in fact...

 I feel younger already.

PS - And because everything is within six degrees of my Filofax, I made an embroidery section in my Filofax using the postcard Sublime Stitching sent with my order.   

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