not much stitching happened yesterday. I didn't have a piece of linen in the shade of green I was looking for. Then I found a piece of linen called french lace which is green but not exactly what I had in mind. I started stitching on it and remembered why I hadn't used it. It is absolutely miserable fabric. It is so stiff it wears down the thread and the threads are horrible. Yes I know it is linen but some of the threads are so thin it looks like I have stitched over one and some are so fat that they look like I am over 3. There is a ton of back stitching on this piece so it looked horrible. I went searching for another piece and found one but this one looks yellowish green so I don't think I like it. While I was contemplating and trying to figure out whether I should rip out what I did on one or the other my stitching lamp blew up! Yipes, it took 10 years off my life for sure. Since I was off yesterday and didn't have to go anywhere, I opted to really not go anywhere so that pretty much put the end to my stitching. That kind of worked out though since I was playing on facebook and set up a group page for my 30th class reunion and posted some very old pictures of some really young kids.

Today after work, I trekked over to Lowes and bought a new lamp and then when I stopped at the grocery, I treated myself to a new Just Cross Stitch magazine. Now I am set to go tomorrow...if I can figure out what fabric to use. *sigh* I wonder what is in hat magazine that is good... OK, I am going to go read now.