Incoherent Scribblings

No Religion Please!

I am not really surprised, even though I must admit I always thought I was a bit more agnostic than atheist…

You fit in with: Atheism Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Atheist. You have very little faith and you are very focused on intellectual endeavors. You value objective proof over intuition or subjective thoughts. You enjoy talking about ideas and tend to have a lot of in depth conversations with people. 60% scientific. 80% reason-oriented.

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Dancing with the Devil

He is no longer a UFO, nor is he a WIP… today he officially became a HD!

After I got my UFOs out of the basket the other day I was inspired to work on my little thimble devil. I knew that I could finish him in a relatively short amount of time, so that is what I have been working on since Friday. I really enjoy my robins and exchanges, but it sure feels good to have a little happy dance all for myself for a change!

When I first started this little devil, the one thing that I was most concerned about was that all of that red thread might bleed on me. I think it is about gone now, but I have a little bit of thread that my mom gave me when I first started stitching that contained a couple of the reds (321 and 814) and they had bled on me before. Because I knew that the thread might bleed, before I started this project I soaked the floss in cold water and today when I washed my little devil I had no bleeding problems, thank goodness.

Though I really don’t want to stitch the other devils at this time, I still think this one is really cute and I do reserve the right to stitch the others if the mood hits me.
A few other notes:

1.) I have made my decision regarding the “2001 Mirabilia Guardian Cherub:” I have decided to designate the one with my lavender color conversion as a permanent UFO and begin it again using the recommended colors on a new piece of fabric. I am not exactly sure when I will start it, but if I am going to do it for the new baby it will have to be before Christmas.

2.) On Saturday I received my Halloween Exchange from Joanie: Not only did she send me an adorable ornament, she also included some knickknacks that she painted herself! Thanks again for all the great stuff Joanie!
3.) Over the weekend I upgraded the software the runs my stitching gallery. The layout of the gallery will look a bit different from now on, the URLs of the albums have changed slightly, and I am still working on adding all the details to my pictures (with over 200 pics it is taking some time), but over all I think it was a good move. Please let me know if you have any viewing problems.

4.) Finally, a gentle reminder to all readers of blogs (mine or otherwise). Remember what your mother told you: If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Pattern Marking

Today’s Stitching Blogger’s Question was kindly suggested by Cathy and is:

Do you mark or hi-lite your patterns or can you follow them without any markings? Do you make copies to mark up, or do you mark originals?

I follow my patterns without marking them. Until I read on some blogs and bulletin boards that people do such a thing I would never have even thought about it. Maybe it is just the librarian coming out in me, but in all honesty it seems almost like marking up a book to me and that is just so wrong! However, I will admit that on big charts like “Passing Admirers” I have been known to make a tiny pencil dot here and there to keep my place and then erase when I am finished.