List #18: 1999

My cousin thinks we made a rookie mistake with the jacket situation, so the dude slept better last night. The kids are off this week so they're coming to the city because they love riding the train. We're going to dim sum tomorrow. Mmmmm, dim sum.

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Nineteen ninety nine was a pretty big year with lots of people undertaking "millennial" projects. (I'd love to take a poll to see how those fared.) I did not. I didn't see that many that I liked but also knew that I'd be one of those people trying to decide how to make my millennial project relevant when I finally put it on the wall in 2015. I did find other ways of making it a bang up stitching year: I stitched lots of ornaments; I started stitching for the baby-to-be (Lala); and I made something pretty monumental for Sissy's 30th birthday.

• Sue Stokes ornament from Celebrations of Needlework in NH 5/8/99
• Summer is a Cumin' in Moss Creek Designs 5/9/99. This was a project I started in Sacramento 1997 with Rae Iverson. And, it turns out, I came thisclose to meeting Jo in that class. (Don't look too close, major mistake.)

• Holly Berry Heart, Sweetheart Tree, Just Cross Stitch Ornament Issue (JCSO) 5/20/99
• Swedish Christmas &etc Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin, JCSO 5/27/99
• Christmas Orchid, The Lilac Studio, JCSO 6/1/99
• Christmas Eve Ornament, Graphs by Cheryl & Barbara, JCSO, 6/6/99
• 1996 Annual Ornament—Fir Tree Heart's Content. I've stitched three of these and have about three more kits unstitched. I know the tree says 1998, but I think I just stitched that part in 1998 and had a major case of wishful thinking! (Much like the 1997 on the pudding finished in 1998.)
  
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• Woodland Noel, Heart in Hand Needlework, JCSO, 11/13/99
• Love Blocks, Mosey ‘n Me for Lala. I started very many projects for the baby to be. This was stitched with beautiful silk floss. The little cherub's hair is all golden French knots. I loved stitching this!
• Sampler Sweet Bag Nostalgic Needle. Stitched for Sissy's 30th birthday. I even made a tag for the inside that marks the occasion. Very clever--I had forgotten about that. That center pink flower is detached buttonhole stitch; I spent quite a few days under the magnifier!
  

• Needleroll, Catherine Theron, Theron Traditions. Celebrations in Cross Stitch (Manchester). The fact that this has been completely stitched for almost nine years but remains unfinished is, in the words of my favorite poker players, just sick.