Starting Poe
Starting my fourth Mystic Stitch project this year, Poe, and I think I need some encouragement to get this one done. It is one of my favorites and I want it done by some time in July, so six squares a day. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
Posted by: caray214 on 11/24/15
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Wow! Now that is a project! What artist is this chart from? What size will the finished project be?
by: Bermuda on 11/25/15
This is a Mystic Stitch designed by Bill Bell and over two feet in each direction, but will be beautiful when done.
by: caray214 on 11/25/15
I love this one...as kids, my mom would read his stories to us at Halloween time.....keep us posted on your progress...
by: bthompson2418 on 11/25/15
I will update with progress, may need the encouragement to keep going...lol
by: caray214 on 11/25/15
I remember that Poe was mandatory reading in school. Read somewhere the Poe was scared to death that he would be buried alive. He did create a storyline about a man that was buried where he could ring a bell to let people know he was alive in his mausoleum (I don't think I spelled that word correctly)...
by: Bermuda on 11/25/15
His fears might have been a side-effect from dope...sad when real talent is lost to such an "escape".
by: VCESS on 11/25/15
Poe was at one time using laudanum, an opiate. He did not continue this as a habit. He drank to excess as a young man, but that was sporadic and seldom. Just a partier as a young man! I recently read and then saw a History Channel story about Poe's death. Apparently, when he fell sick, there was a cholera epidemic and Poe even wrote that he thought he had cholera because he had spasms. Others thought he was a victim of "cooting", in which some folks were drugged and taken to vote for a person or cause. Poe had taken a temperance pledge quite some time before he died and no person saw him violate that pledge. After testing his hair for drugs that were not present (but would have been if he had been doping, even though he died over 160 years ago) it is now believed that he died of rabies. He loved wild animals and tried to help some. Not only did he have the famous raven, but also a fox and other small mammals. He was found delirious on the street in Baltimore and died later, never recovering.

Wikipedia has a great article about Poe and this controversy. He could not have written as well as je did if he had been an opiate adddict ot an alcoholic. My opinion as a writer.

Part of a poem I wrote is:

My mother read to us every night,
Pushing away the darkness
With James Whitcomb Riley
And bringing it back
With Edgar Allen Poe.

by: Su Pitt on 11/25/15
can i make a suggestion as 1 yr. i did a white poodle on black but always had a white piece under neath
by: hobbies on 11/26/15
Speaking of poodles, does anyone remember the poodle skirts that were popular in the late 50's?
How about the "penny loafers"? How about the "saddle shoes"? :)

Getting back to Poe...wasn't he in love with his cousin, think her name was Marilee, and wrote a poem about her? I believed she died young....
by: Bermuda on 11/26/15
Speaking of Penny Loafers -- they are back!!! Saw them at Macys
by: NANCYE G on 11/26/15