Each month, Elizabeth selects a book to feature, and then gives us a week-daily email with a sentence to diagram.
In the email, she gives us a sentence, breaks down the parts, and shows us how to diagram it. It’s been a very good learning experience, though I am often a few days behind.
For the month of April, the book we were diagramming from was The Princess Bride. This was nice, because the sentences were somewhat easier than some of the books we’ve been working from. Books in the public domain often have a complex writing style.
She saved the best sentence for the last day of April:
I nearly got the whole thing on my own. I missed the infinitive as direct object. But other than that!
Best Buy (or their shipping companions, who knows?) went way overboard with the packaging for this remote we ordered.
From the future, I can report that this remote stopped working shortly after we started using it, so I ended up driving to Best Buy for a replacement. So it was delivered to the Orange Door in too much packaging and also via personal vehicle.
Sara adds a hello sticker to this cute Tom Lum Project for Awesome postcard
She reports that there isn’t much school left and that Summer Sara is trying to emerge before her time. Also that almost all the spring blooms are gone due to not much rain.
Matt poses with the remains of our complementary crème brûlée from RingSide Steakhouse. We had a delicious dinner for our twenty-fourth anniversary.
There was a plan to eat at a steakhouse in Boise that fell through, so I knew I wanted a steakhouse experience for our fancy dinner out. I got a delicious steak, baked potato, roll, and both a martini and a Manhattan. Plus we got onion rings, which were just the right kind of fried.
This one took a while, partially because that yellow thread stitch to the right of the negative space square took a lot of thread, and I ran out and had to reorder, and also because my interest in this project seems to wax and wane. For instance, I finished it several weeks ago, but it sat waiting to be washed and stretched for a long time.
I like the overall result though.
Here’s a closeup of the left side. I like my double zig zags with the maroon and gold. And the simplicity of the turquoise running stitch next to it. The wrapped purple guy was when I started to incorporate stitches from Pop-Up Embroidery.
Here is a closeup of the right side. The yellow floss eater also came from Pop-Up Embroidery. I wasn’t very good at it. And then, for some reason, I decided I needed to make a billion figure-eight knots right next to it. You can see that the final bits were stitches that didn’t take long to make.
The back, for those who enjoy.
When I published the side two post, I discovered that I never chronicled side one, so here is side two:
And here is side one. I initially thought this project would be a good one to use up the bits of thread I had left from other projects, but I only had to run out of thread one time before I reached the top to abandon that plan. (You can see the little lime running stitch next to the white chainstitch in the middle not quite making it to the top.)
I also learned by doing. It’s best to start on one side and work to the other side. I initially added a line here and there, but didn’t like how much some of the things were getting beat up from the hoop, so everything after this panel was worked left to right.
One more panel to go! (And then I still have to make the bag…)
