Zentangle 21 March 2023

Here we have Bales (upper left), Poke Root (top middle), a tiny bit of my favorite Shattuck (top right); Finery (middle right), the quite dramatic Onamato (lower right) and Florz (lower left) a Zentangle that is one of the first taught in the Zentangle book from the creators, but takes a while to show up in my Zentangle Book, (One Zentangle a Day by Beckah Krahula)

Year of Stitch Sampler No. 1, 2023

And it’s a late finish for the first sampler of the year.

This was a nice way to show off stitches.

The stitches are:

Pink: sheaf; Orange: mountmellick, and a blanket stitch to even things out; Yellow: love chain; Green: feather; Blue: herringbone. The clouds are basket weave (the tiny cloud) and cross bar filling trellis (the other two). All of the outlining is couching.

I really loved that basket weave cloud. I was less enamored of the crossbar filling trellis, and you can see that eventually I did not care about my lines being straight.

I also experimented with a shimmery white thread to outline the colors of the rainbow and on the clouds. It will be the first and last time I use such a thing. I didn’t like the synthetic feeling of the thread and it was a massive pain to work with. I used normal DMC floss to pin it in place.

Here’s the back. You can see the wiry bits of the shimmery thread and where they got tangled.

I think I did a great job with colors on this one! This is also the last of Matt’s old sheets to be used for embroidery.

Sound of Music Sing Along

I missed the various sing along showings back in the day, so I jumped at the chance to attend this round.

Here’s my gift bag. You can see the invite to the Captain’s Ball, the curtains, some edelweiss, and cards to hold up while singing “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”

The opposite side of the question mark and Maria cards were the will-o’-the-wisp and the flibbertigibbet, of course.

Our host gave us our cues for yelling things out, and there was much lusty singing, which was fun.

Overall, a good time at the movies.