(such a) Fickle Stitcher

  Temperature, that is.  It’s amazing what a little bit of cooler weather can do for one’s outlook and attitude…

  Today was the (rescheduled due to National Seminar) meeting day for my face-to-face EGA chapter.  We issued a special invitation to the public to join us to stitch ”Kissing Pillows.”  This is an outreach effort headed by the Yellow Rose chapter in Texas to distribute a small stitched pillow which soldiers can leave with their children as a tangible reminder of the deployed parent’s love.  We had expected a larger turnout after the great response (via email) to an article in a Jackson paper, but we were happy to meet the few who did come to help us stitch the pillows.  And even happier that they wanted to take extra kits to stitch!  Our guests included one young girl who arrived with her mother just as we were packing up.  We got her started stitching and invited her to come back, especially if she needed help.  This is an outreach project which we intend to continue to support, so perhaps more interested folks will come next time.  (For additional information about this effort, please contact yellowroseega.outreach@gmail.com.)

    While I was doing this:

(and showing off my seminar pieces, and talking, and talking) my sweet husband was shopping and bought me this:

It’s a set of small files which fit inside the aluminium handle.  When I was beading a lot, I could have made more use of it, but now that I have it I bet I will discover all sorts of unexpected uses for it.

  We had  a delightful supper at Ichiban’s, AND, I managed to get the assigned chapter read in my management textbook on the ride to and from the meeting – without falling asleep!  As much as I want to stitch tomorrow, the LS work has to come first.

  Oh, and the “Boiled Peanut Man” was selling his wares, so, of course we had to stop. Yum.