This week's embroidery

I'm keeping myself occupied with some honeycomb background stitch.  I'm a member of a couple of online embroidery groups, and one of them is offering a monthly challenge -- which includes specific colors, several stitches, and particular embellishments.  February's honeycomb stitch was a new one for me, and it's actually going well.  I have an idea simmering in the back of my mind for a little framed hanging piece.

We're now a month into this national horror spectacle, and every day -- every few hours -- more appalling news is released.  The United States is now officially in alliance WITH Putin AGAINST Europe.  It's not a sustainable situation.  The vocabulary words are my own, a way for me to express my outrage with more specificity.  I currently have more than a year's worth of words on my list. I'm going to need a lot more embroidery and a lot more words I'm afraid. Sigh.

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Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile

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