Sara wishes that I have a lovely four-day week after our three-day weekend. Her hope was that I would receive the postcard during the four-day week, but alas, it arrived at the beginning of the five-day week after the four-day week that was after the three-day weekend.
For their three-day weekend, Sara and Shawn visited Sonoma and had a great time.
Tassels! So fun! I’d not done them before.
The stitches this time were:
This was one where I finished and was glad that most of these just get rolled up in a “Done!” tube.
I didn’t love the color choices I made. It’s one of Stich Palettes color combos. I like the individual colors, but I don’t like how it all hung together for this.
Of the stiches I only really loved the cable chain. The knotted ladder I ended up cutting out and redoing and I still didn’t love it. The pistil stitch will come in handy in the future though.
For the needle weaving with the tassels, I watched the video and then let three days go by before I attempted. I think the result speaks for itself.
Also, I don’t love how my lettering turned out.
It’s all an experiment though, so good lessons learned. And it seems I’m better a bullion stitch (the one stitch I’d done before) than Shannon is. So that’s fun.
The Northwest Classical Theater Collaborative (which once upon a time we knew as the Northwest Classical Theater Company) performed Wallace Shawn’s The Fever and I reserved a ticket. The collaborative staged the play in a variety of locations. I attended a performance at the Lloyd Center, in the former Victoria’s Secret store.
Before the play started, I took a loop around the first floor of the mall. The Lloyd Center hasn’t fared well in the pandemic and very few stores remain. It was nearly deserted on a Sunday evening, so deserted that the cleaners had already started sweeping the main drag 15 minutes before closing time.
Loop finished, I headed into the theater. It was a long walk from the front of the store to where the play was.
Having taken that walk, I really liked how they used the bones of the old Victoria’s Secret store for their stage.
There were about ten people present for the performance, which was directed by Patrick Walsh and starred Paul Susi as the main character.
I wasn’t familiar with this play and found it churned up quite a bit of feelings.
Thanks to the NWCTC for another good performance and unique setting.
At the end, we all exited together through the service corridor (another fun thing about this performance.)
