Eye-balling is Better

It rained all day, I don't believe there was a break in it at all. So I set up shop (put a card table in front of my blue chair), and began finishing the edges of my felted rug with blanket stitching. I tried to keep the, less-than-perfect, edges straight by using tape, and marks to keep the stitches the same width, but soon gave up that fussiness and simply eye-balled the length and evenness as I stitched. 
I hadn't found the yarn color I had in mind, so I used what I had on hand, this nice dark gold, but I think I'll get what I really want (more the shade of that tape, actually) and redo what I've done so far.

We drove through the rain and dark for the first Beaverton Symphony concert, of the season, at the new Reser Center. It was a wonderful concert; I don't know if the orchestra has ever sounded better, so I'll go again for Sunday's performance at a different venue. 
The concert is being dedicated to Travis Hatton, the conductor who died suddenly just a month ago. Amazing how the musicians rallied. 
The Reser has an art gallery, and tonight was the opening of an exhibit "Red Thread: Green Earth," by Studio Abioto. It was bright, alive, beautiful, comforting, and peaceful with photos, video, sculpture, and plants. Food, too; delicious and artful small cups of things like hummus and veggie sticks, fruit, pumpkin pie, and, my favorite, arugula salad. See the Extras for a better description and a photo from the exhibit.