(original post 1 May 2013)
   This past Sunday was Palm Sunday for the Orthodox.  It is a solemn joyful feast, the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week,  and the liturgical color is green.
    And so I saw Father Michael's "green" vestments for the first time -

and here we have the half-completed center panel of the altar cloth - 

(original post 23 Apr 2013)
  125 hours of stitching and into my 4th British Cop series on Netflix.  I've finished the 1st half of the center medallion on the altar cloth.  Lookit - 

(original post 21 Mar 2013)
About 50 hours of stitching into the center panel of the altar cloth (this bit will finish out at 39" x 39", BTW).  This photo doesn't show the color well, but it's the best I could manage past midnight with a little yaller kitten trying to grab the camera (she likes the whirring noise it makes).

  And finally, happy 31 years of marriage to us!

(original post 9 Mar 2013)
   After a few days of staring in terror at nearly $300 in linen,  measured a dozen times and MADE...THAT...FIRST...CUT (I suffer from Fear of Shears.  Takes me forever to get up the courage to make- that- first- cut!)  and got the first piece basted to the scroll rods, and the center and edges of the first section (altarcloth center panel)were counted and marked.
    The Giant Skeins Of Silk are on the way (a good two weeks sooner than expected!  Thank you, Nordic Needle!) and meanwhile, I have a couple of small skeins of each thread.  Time to start the fun stuff!

(original post 19 Feb 2013)

  Okay, y'all.  Nothing exceeds like excess,  right?  So somehow, when it was mentioned that it would be lovely to have a beautiful new altar cloth for our beautiful old new church for the Feast of Pentecost,  Auntie Liadain lost her mind and popped up and said "Oh, I can do that, I have just the idea!"

  And you know what, I DO.  Been wanting to work something from this design for years, and could never grasp the "thread" of translating it to blackwork - until I offered to make it for the church.  I began with this -

  
My first translation was pretty literal - except the bunny.  The bunny didn't quite belong on Orthodox altar vestments.

-and BEHOLD, I decided that I had designed this design about as designedly as it could possibly get, and I backed slowly away from the pencils.  Until, of course, i remembered that there were more bits needed for a full set.

-and a pair of chalice covers....
   Okay.  NOW I am done designing.

(original post 12 Feb 2013)
  Wow, what a summer!  Himself ended up with rotator cuff surgery after hand-digging and replacing all the septic lines by himself.  Then we found 2!! orphans.  One Himself found in the pasture amongst the horses' hooves, squalling.... about 3 weeks old.

The second, MAYBE a week old, I found apparently dead in a puddle.  When I picked it up to dispose of it, I found it was -barely-alive.  brought her in, warmed her up, and filled her belly, expecting her to die at any moment.
  When she was still with us after a week, Himself took her to the vet, who told us she was "non-viable".  Apparently the vet thought no one could be bothered to get up and feed/medicate an orphan every 2 hours.

Here we are now, Butterbean (yellow) and Tortellini.  Butterbean lost most of the vision in one eye due to corneal scarring , but she is MORE than viable; she and Torts are best buds and think they are Queens of All things.
  Meanwhile, Himself starts a new job, and I have a gigantic new project...

(original post 12 Feb 2013)

  Wow, been awhile, huh?  Was a busy busy year...  

 Got a new priest (brand-spanking new, fresh from seminary!) and bought a new building; Holy Resurrection moved from our old storefront on Gillette Ave...

to what is now the oldest continually occupied church in town - was the home of the Episcopal congregation since its building in 1916 (it came in boxes on a train, a "kit" church!) until we purchased it and saved it from becoming a school parking lot.  (Wow.  "Paved Paradise and put up a parking lot, for real!)

The congregation of Holy Resurrection gathered up all our elbow grease and demodelled from THIS - 

....to THIS.  A loving work-in-progress.  In the foreground you can see the analogion cover that i never blogged about when it was finally finished, complete with Godmother's crochetted lace.

(original post 18 Jan 2012)

Mercy on us do I have a galloping case of the hibernations this winter!The completion of "One Heart", this year's "anniversary sampler", is on hold while I wait for the perfect background fabric; meanwhile, I have been much into the production of summer dresses, gramma sweaters, and hopefully soon baby dresses for That New Girl.

Meanwhile, sewing.  A new dress for Granny...

And knitting a couple of cardis, one white

And lavender.

  The Granddaughter - growing fast!

(original post 27 Sept 2011)

Born this afternoon, Miss Kaleigh Ann Edwards, 9.4 lbs, 22 inches, everyone doing well! May God grant them many years!  Grandchild #4!

Yiayia Liadain's gotta get sewing!