Flosstube and Variety Show #173

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Flosstube = cross stitch; Variety Show can be anything, and sometimes many things all at once!

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Special intro and outro music: “Leaning On the Everlasting Arms”, excerpts from an arrangement by Byron Williams (my husband)

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Today I mentioned:

Cross stitch:

Under the Roof of Blue Ionian Weather (small) - Golden Kite
   18-count ivory Aida, 2 billion called-for DMCs and blends
   The original painting is by 19th-century artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

A Quaker Pattern Book - With My Needle (Ellen Chester) - 56-count Albarium by Cedar River Linens and Designs, Soie surfine #2352

Jane Thompson 1838 - The Scarlett House - exclusive through Homespun Needlework Facebook group from The Shepherd’s Needle. 36-count Sleeping Bear (Needle and Flax), called-for NPI silk.

Welsh Dragon Bookmark Kit - Art Pewter 

Hannah Green 1826 - Stitch-along starting January 1, going for 14 months, to end on March 1, 2026 (200 years after Hannah finished her sampler). I am using 36-count Just the Ticket (Tabbycat Linens) and the called-for DMC, 2 over 2. Email me if you would like to have me send you a PDF that shows the breakdown of sections that I am going to do, or watch my video #139 for more details. Please tag me and also use the hashtag (there is some question about how hashtags will be supported in Instagram …) @tworivers_58  #hannahgreen1826sal 

Change of sequence recommendation for following along with the SAL:

January-May, sections A-E plus one line of the over-one verse
June: section F, one line of the verse, start on L
July: section G, one line of the verse, continue on L
August: section H, one line of the verse, finish L
September: section I, one line of the verse, do the tree and birds from the left-hand section N
October section J, one line of the verse, start on M
November and December: Section K, continue on M, Hannah’s name, some of the over-one birds
January: finish section M, finish over-one birds
February: sections N, catch up on whatever else you have missed
March 1, 2026: put in the final stitches

Rice stitch instructions: https://rsnstitchbank.org/stitch/rice-stitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfx1Pn-A7UI at 25:59, Nicola does a tutorial on the Rice Stitch.

Variety Show

Books that are part of a series:

In the Bleak Midwinter - Julia Spencer-Fleming - a tenth book in this series comes out next month!
Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian - there are about 20 books in this series of British Royal Navy adventures from the end of the 18th through the beginning of the 19th centuries.
Horatio Hornblower series - similar timeframe - by C.S. Forester.
Run with the Horsemen - Ferrol Sams (also The Whisper of the River and When All the World was Young) set in the 1920s through WWII, approximately, in Georgia, USA).
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (“A Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment”) - by Alexander McCall Smith (also wrote the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) - a series of comic events, almost satirical (Also in this series: Portuguese Irregular Verbs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances)