Có đâu thiên vị người nào,
chữ tài chữ mệnh dồi dào cả hai.
Có tài mà cậy chi tài,
chữ tài liền với chữ tai một vần.
- Truyện Kiều, Nguyễn Du
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I finally got some of my library holds!! Not the ones I was expecting but still.
Like, I expected three books, I got three books, did I check to make sure they were the right three books? No. But they were books I did put on hold. None of the ILL's made it though? Which is weird because that's what they called me about?
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Jdksk the naming of stitches in this book is interesting... What on earth is a holding loop stitch??? Like, it looks like a chain stitch but not really? Maybe the Pekinese Stitch or Looped Running on the Rocksea site? The Pekinese Stitch on the NeedlenTread site looks closer but not quite.
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Me, looks at the picture and the description that says 'seed stitch'
Knows that is not a seed stitch
Go to the index
Find out earlier in the book, they commented that Peking knot stitch was known as seed stitch in Chinese
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“Thân em thì trắng, phận em tròn,
Bảy nổi ba chìm với nước non.
Rắn nát mặc dầu tay kẻ nặn,
Mà em vẫn giữ tấm lòng son.”
- ‘Bánh Trôi Nước’, Hồ Xuân Hương
"My body is white; my fate, softly rounded,/ rising and sinking like mountains in streams./ Whatever way hands may shape me,/ at center my heart is red and true." (translated by John Balaban)
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