#AtoZchallenge 2020: Stitching the World - Z

All the Z countries and territories.

Zambia
Zimbabwe
J: Iran > Los Angeles > Zoo [Zimbabwe safari]
How did he get there?
Original answers:

The Zoo?

Back on "I" Day, I asked for "Zoo" suggestions from my readers.
Some of the responses:

As for your zoo question: does it need to start with a J? In that case I'd suggest to skip the zoo. Fly to Johannesburg, South Africa, drive 4-5 hours towards Kruger park and meet the Big Five and lots of other beautiful animals! -- Part-time Working Hockey Mom

On Facebook:

I made the editorial decision to send J on a photo safari in Zimbabwe. So much better than the zoo, right? A fitting end to my A-Z Stitching the World tour.

I'll be doing one more wrap-up post sometime in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned!

Want to learn more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge? Read about it here.
Want to read other A-Z bloggers? Here is the Master List!
I have my personal list of links on the lower left of this page.

#AtoZchallenge 2020: Stitching the World - Y

There is only one Y country:

Yemen
Nobody went there.
That is all for today.

Want to learn more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge? Read about it here.
Want to read other A-Z bloggers? Here is the Master List!
I have my personal list of links on the lower left of this page.

#AtoZchallenge 2020: Stitching the World - X

There are no X countries.

There are, however three Xtraterrestrial journeys, and I stitched 2/3:
Jim: Florida > Los Angeles > Mars
Paul: Boston MA > LA > Mars
x: The Moon (can't find the info for this one. ARGH!)

I'm going to walk you through some of my process on getting to Mars.
I cogitated upon how to "stitch" this journey as I stitched other journeys.
Do I sew on a covered button? Cover a button with embroidery floss?
Have said button dangle off the bottom?
Both of the Mars Men were "now" [leg two of journey] in LA, and I started stitching their third paths down to the bottom hem.

I settled upon the idea of making a pom pom, and found an instructional video: 

My first attempt did not go well, using spawn-of-the-devil metallic "floss":

It looks like a sheaf of wheat! Fancy golden straw! The stuff Rumpelstiltskin wanted!
It started falling apart immediately!

Next I tried cotton embroidery floss

Nope. We have a classic "Pinterest Fail" photo here!

I needed wool. Wool I did not have.

I scrapped the pom pom from scratch concept and instead WRAPPED an existing pom pom.

SO much better!

Want to learn more about the Blogging from A to Z Challenge? Read about it here.
Want to read other A-Z bloggers? Here is the Master List!
I have my personal list of links on the lower left of this page.