"I've got this new cloth with lots of colors. What should I use?"
G considered and chose "the purple right here."
"Well then, what thread should I use?"
"Orange, like a longhorn."
Well, of course. So as we "rested" I stitched my recollection of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 that a long-ago boss particularly liked because it is often misconstrued as "be thankful for everything no matter what" but makes more sense as:
"Be thankful in all things"
And among many other things, I am indeed thankful that I connected with FASA: Fiber Artists of San Antonio
who had a "cobweb sale" at their last monthly meeting. There I found Jean Dahlgren
selling $5 bags of hand-dyed cloth ...
and a room-full of living breathing kindred spirits. And when I learned that they had Elaine Lipson (yes, she of The Slow Cloth Manifesto)
at FASA's last monthly meeting, I wondered why I've waited so long.
Anyway, getting back to Thanksgiving. G and I also crafted a cherry pie together (it's the one with the circles on top) ...
Sadly, dinner didn't make it on to the photo roll as we were too busy eating, drinking, and making merry. But a post-dinner lap nap ...
and a first-ever ukulele lesson, complete with rousing rendition of Old MacDonald had a Farm ...
were captured for posterity.
Last, but far from least, we returned home to find this waiting for us in the mail ...
a hand-wrought gift of fall foliage from Pam, a long-time friend who (with husband Wade) recently made the trek from their home in Colorado to visit us in the Hill Country. I envy her fall leaves ...
and hope we'll get to experience the beauty of their place someday.
Now "we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" ...
