On the ground, it’s more like walking slowly getting used to the transition from walker to cane, but in stitching, we’re galloping. Here is progress since the last post.
Several strips so far, a combo of reach-backs to my older books, and to the more recent Ensamplario Atlantio Volume III. I am still drafting up the custom bands that are specific references to the content of Forlorn Toys, the book that The Resident Male is writing right now. When you see them you will realize what’s taking so long (other than limits on how long I can stand at the computer in a day).
I do have to report an oops. One that dates back to the publication of The New Carolingian Modelbook in 1995. I hadn’t stitched the current strip before, mostly for reasons of size. It’s quite tall. But this being a very long piece of cloth, I thought it would work well on this piece. Lo and behold. There is a small crossings error in the original. It’s small enough to be an easy fix, but I will put redoing that page in queue and eventually publish it in here, and on the errata section on the “My Books” tab elsewhere on this site.
In the mean time I’m at the point in this complex interlace that I can go off-book. I’m just copying what I’ve stitched to date now, flipping/mirroring/inverting the crosses as required. Yes, it’s an eye-bender, but each subsection is logical, and if I keep the precision up so that all of the subsections meet up nicely, no where near as difficult as it looks.
String-Or-Nothing 
Knowledge is Joy. Amen.
I had minor surgery Monday and am waiting to hear whether or not I have endometrial cancer, but the doctor said things looked good and she was quite heartened. Fibroids aren’t supposed to revive a dozen years after menopause but mine did but it looks to be no more than that.
Feel free to ignore this question and save your energy for what you need it for: just know that I’m hoping that everything turned out well and I’m hoping you don’t have to do the whole bag thing. But I’m so glad I was able to do at least a little bit to help in the before part.
All the best,
Alison Hyde
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Even it it’s a walk to a faster walk, that’s still progress!
You are making impressive progress! From the surgery you described, just being mobile with a walker is an achievement, so it’s wonderful that you can contemplate moving up to a cane. Please don’t push yourself too far too fast – give yourself time to heal. Must say, you’ve cleared the anaesthetic fog from your brain astonishingly quickly! The Toys sampler is well on the way to being another beauty, and that interlace is mind-blowing.