Living in Sin

Well I finished my Living in Sin pattern. Creating the border was so frustrating and annoying that I sort of gave up once it was at the not-horrible stage, but I wish I'd gone on and simplified it.

It's for sale in my Etsy shop and actually comes with both the border I stitched and the simplified (and much more symmetrical!) pattern.

I've been so tired and rundown that minor errands and chores feel oppressive. I think I need a good month alone, though even that probably wouldn't help. I shall hope it is just a melancholy phase brought on from having no room for new tea cups.

books and stitchery

Witches and witchery, spinsters and stitchery...

I'm mostly done with my 'easy' project, which gave me a break from the chintz napkin. The entire border is done and the text (which will say Living in Sin) won't take long. I'm thinking I'll take up the napkin again for a bit though.

Today I finished off all of the Elizabeth Gaskell book My Lady Ludlow. It was good, though not my favorite of Gaskell's books. Before that I finished The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, which was wonderful! 

Sadly the book I'm reading now, Ten Days in a Mad-house by Nellie Bly, is read really badly. The reader, Laural Merlington, has awkward pacing, random overly theatrical narration, HORRIBLE accents, but mostly very mechanical sounding narration. Almost like a really advanced text-to-speech computer reader. I just don't understand how such a bad reader can get work, or what publisher thought this person was good. The attempts at accents alone make me cringe.

It's a short book though, so I'm trying to muddle through the awful reading.