March 16, 2011
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Another project finished, and a weekend of silence
A few weeks ago I ordered a new project from the Stitchery – my mom told me to!!!! It was an eBook cover with a coffee design, which is absolutely up my alley because I love coffee, and I LOVE my Nook which is an eReader from Barnes and Noble. One thing my mom and I have learned, especially with items from the Stitchery, is that if you see something you really like, you should probably go ahead and buy it. Because if you wait, it might not still be there. So, being the obedient daughter that I am, I ordered it. It finally arrived last week and I got started on it right away! It was perfect timing because I just HAPPENED to be between projects.
It was interesting, because I guess I didn’t read the explanation very well. I was expecting cross-stitch for some reason, but it wasn’t. It was something called a basket weave stitch I think? There were not very many instructions, so I kind of had to wing it. But I did my best and I think it turned out really well! And Chip (my Nook) loves his new home
And then, because everyone always wants to see the back of my projects….
That’s just the back of the inside. The true back part is brown suede and it zips around this part to make a full cover.
In other news, Andrew, Luna, and I returned on Sunday from a Silent Weekend in Estes Park. It’s put on by a woman named Elizabeth, and there were hearing and deaf people there, most of which either are currently her ASL students or have been in the past. Some were brand new signers, some were fluent. Some it was their first weekend (mine…) and some had been there 11 times before. It was at a family reunion house at a YMCA and it was a beautiful space.
We arrived Friday night after Andrew and I got off work and it is voice-off from the minute you pull up. We found our rooms, and then had dinner and played games with the group. Saturday morning was a series of workshops. I helped teach one with a friend, Candiss, about Deaf Culture/Hearing Culture – How They’re Different. There were 5 other workshops too and groups moved from one to the other every 20 minutes or so. After lunch we had free time for a few hours. Some people played games, went swimming, took a nap, etc. Saturday night the whole group came together and we told Deaf jokes, did some fun games, and performed little scenes of movies that we adapted for Deaf culture.
My groups’ movie was Wizard of Oz. So I was Dorothy and started with the tornado and the house falling. But in the fall my hearing aids fell off! I came out the door and there was Luna, a hearing dog! Perfect! So I bring her along. I tell the good witch I was supposed to go to Gallaudet, and she tells me to follow the yellow road. I meet a deaf Scarecrow who wants a better education, because he was mainstreamed all his life with hearing kids. I tell him to come with me! We meet a Deaf Tin Woman, who wants to learn to fluently sign ASL, she only knows SEE. So we tell her to come along. We meet a Lion who wants to be involved in Deaf Culture, so we tell him to come along. We meet the Wizard who says the Wicked Witch of the West doesn’t like deaf people, so she stole his deafness and made him hearing! If we can kill her and get his deafness back, then he’ll give us what we want. We meet the Witch and overwhelm her with signing, and she melts. The Wizard gets his deafness back, gives the Scarecrow an education, gives the Tin Woman fluency in ASL and tells the Lion to visit www.coloradodeaf.com
To get to Gallaudet I just have to click my heels and say “There is no place like Gallaudet!” It was a fun night, although it had started to snow and Andrew was starting to get sick
. Sunday morning after breakfast we did a feedback session which was nice, and then cleaned up and headed out.Luna had quite the weekend. She was the life of the party – EVERYONE loved her (who couldn’t? She’s too cute) and she got totally spoiled. She was so busy playing and being petted and loved on that by the time we drove home she was knocked out in the backseat almost immediately! Fun times all around!
Comments (3)
Your Nook cover is beautiful! I am pretty sure the basket weave stitch is needlepoint. And your weekend sounds like so much fun! You should link this to FB because it is such a great post! Coming up with that Wizard of Oz movie idea was impressive, especially for a group where most of them aren’t fluent in ASL and couldn’t talk about it!
Good job, Betsy, both with the needlepoint and the workshop. Hope Andrew didn’t continue to be ill.
@piecedtreasures - and mom, one interesting thing was that there was one deaf older woman in our group and she didn’t even know the story because when she was younger, Wizard of Oz wasn’t captioned and she hasn’t tried to watch it since!