The Great FFF Project
Well, I am not sure I can write about a lot of stitching this time. I am in and out of the “too many WIPs” roller coaster game... In the past week I happened to be in, meaning I had to do something to at least try to diminish their number. So I installed the FFF action - Focus For Finishing, Act I. I even wrote a mini-list for each month, on which WIPs I would like to focus in that particular time period and finish them. In February they are Jour d’hiver by Lilli Violette (because I am enjoying it very much), and Winter Border Sampler by modernfolkembroidery (which I enjoy much, much less; in other words, I am dreading it and it needs a lot - a lot! - of self-coercion to convince myself to pick it up daily; but it has almost the most chance to be able to be finished in a reasonable time).
I did not stitch too much in the weekend anyway, or better to say, I have some serious diversions.
One of them is a new embroidery piece. It is not a cross stitch, and I have been planning to dive into other kinds of embroidery for a long while, but with me, it is with teeny-tiny baby steps. By Friday I got to the point when I was ready to poke my embroidery needle into the fabric first time, and boy, I enjoyed it enormously. (No photos yet, but will be soon.) That took away quite a lot of spare time of mine.
And there is my present reading craze. It comes and goes (as a lot of things with me), and because I am reading two extremely fantastic books that I just love, love, I did spend some valuable time on one of them (Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa; the other one is The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie).