Incoherent Scribblings

SBQ: Designing

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Ternezia and is:

If you were a cross stitch designer, what would your design style be?

If I was a designer, I am not sure I would have a specific design style because I would design whatever inspired me. That said, however, I am sure that I would have a large range of cat designs in my repertoire!

A Funny Thing Happened

… At the laundromat tonight. I saw this guy there that I thought I should know, but couldn’t place him.

(In the spirit of Halloween, I know that this story could fall into a horror movie cliché very quickly, so let me say that we were not the only people there: There was also a family and three or four other people that drifted in and out leaving their laundry unattended.)

While I was standing there waiting for the dryer, the mysterious man came up and introduced himself as this guy that was at a birthday party I went to on Friday. As soon as he said that, I remembered him from a margarita-induced haze: He had had on a fedora that made him look like a jazz musician. I also remembered that he was there with one of our student workers.

I thought that he was just being nice and reintroducing himself to me, but he just stood there and kept talking to me. After I added another fifty cents to each dryer for another 15 minutes (what a rip-off, by the way!) he asked me if I wanted to go across the street to this restaurant to grab a drink while I was waiting.

I agreed and we crossed the street. I ordered my Coke, but before I could pull out my wallet he bought it for me. We sat down and chatted for a while and a few minutes later when my laundry was done he helped me put it in my car.

It was a completely innocent situation I am sure, but I can’t help but feel it was a little weird: After all, he came up to me even though he barely knows me. Now in all honesty, I wouldn’t find this terribly unusual, but I know (and he knows I know) that he has a girlfriend.

In most situations I would think he was hitting on me, but this time I couldn’t decide if I was imagining things and he was just being nice. It is possible I suppose, but in my experience, guys don’t do things like that unless they are interested.

Distractions

As of tomorrow night, I haven’t picked up a needle for a week! I think I would be suffering from withdrawal if I hadn’t been distracted by a member of the opposite sex. Oh well, there is always next week, right?

SBQ: Working on the Railroad

This week’s SBQ is:

Do you railroad?

Sometimes. I don’t railroad a lot, but I find it most helpful when working with blended threads.

Stitching and Reading

As this was the third weekend of the month, it was stitch-a-thon weekend!

Because I would really like to get “Above the Clouds” and “Poet’s Heart” finished by the end of the year, I chose to work on “Above the Clouds” this month. As you can see, not only am I nearly done with the clouds now, I also tackled some backstitching. I tell you, a happy dance is so close that I can nearly smell it!

I must confess that I didn’t stitch as much as I could have this weekend though: I spent half of the day today finishing one of the books I started back in August while I was jet-setting around going to job interviews.

I was about half-way finished with The Virgin’s Lover by Philippa Gregory when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows fell into my hands. As a result, the story of the first two years of Elizabeth I’s reign and her affair with Sir Robert Dudley had to wait until Lord Voldemort was thoroughly defeated.

All in all, it was a perfect weekend: Drinks with friends, stitching, and reading. What more could a single girl wish for?