Textileophile

 Once again I've fallen a bit out of this habit.  It's hard when it feels like I don't have an enormous amount to share.  I spent about a week doing almost nothing but play the sims.  I went and downloaded sims 3, just the basic game, no expansion packs.  And I had so much fun playing dollhouse. I made a sim me and a sim Zac and we had some sim kids.  And I accidentally played on stupid easy mode because I got both Sim Zac and Sim Jessica to the top of two career tracks, as well as raising three children to adulthood. and neither of them are very close at all to aging out of adulthood into "elderly" so that's fun. And there's that thing about sims 3 where you have the neighborhood, but if you go and play different houses, the timeline continues, so it's... different from sims 1 and sims 2.  There's a lot more interesting ways the game keeps you wanting to play, but there's not a lot of ways to keep your family going.  In the older versions, I&#

 I have been missing for awhile.  Things have been happening, pokemon have been stitching, and I took a short break to make a gift for my mother-in-law.  And I finished socks. Without further ado, back to the pokemon.  Where I last left you, I wasn't quite finished with the first row of pokemon panels. Well, in case you're curious, I did finish that row. It was Jolteon!  Man, that was a lot of waiting for you all.  Also, I kind of fell off the memorizing these monster's names.  I have learned them of course, but keeping them all in my head is turning out to be rather more difficult than it was when I only had 20 of them to contend with. So, with the entire first row done, I was 20% done with this thing!  Way to motivate! Here you can see I've finished the bottoms of Pincer and Tauros.  I have started Goldeen and her evolutionary destiny, Seaking.  The entire time I was stitching on Goldeen, I had Jolene in my head, except it was Goldeen. And this is the part where I had