My Wild Life

Dear Diary,

Yesterday I was a rebel without a pause. First when I got dressed I decided to wear gold and silver jewelry at the same time! Then at church we sang "Amazing Grace" during the offertory and I sang the original lyrics for the first verse even though the missalete had the rewritten version. After church the parish's Vietnamese families hosted a food stand to benefit some church repairs and I had a 4-egg roll lunch. (Home-made egg rolls are love.)

Then I went to my yarn club where I embroidered. Well, I crocheted a little--last month Genevieve had started an experimental project of knitting with embroidery floss, so I had started wondering if you could crochet with it, too. So I got a skein of one of DMC's new colors (Very Dark Cornflower Blue, which really does look like the exact shade of my favorite kind of bachelor buttons) and found a motif that looked like a bachelor button and it came out looking really nice. (If anyone reading this is wondering, I used all six strands together and a B hook.) And then I got out my embroidery and started working on an Asian crane design that I had transeferred to some muslin years ago and never got farther on. If I ever finish it I plan to use it as an applique on something jacketish. And now, since I know I can crochet with the same thread I can do some color-coordinating accents for whatever I choose to embroider.

And then I did laundry. Even rebels need clean clothes.