That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 10, 2022

Just as Thomas was about to take her across the threshold to… Abigail remembered she had some crocheting to do.

/// On the Threshold of pledging his troth,

he stops short, gripped by languor and sloth.

While he waits in a daze

she embroiders this phrase:

“Take my virtue or horse, but not both.”

Mary was terrified of confrontation, which why she hoped that Charles would telepathically clue in to the fact that she found him desperately boring and wanted him to just leave. Or have his head explode, like in that Scanners movie. That would be fine too.

In the pre-WiFi days; watching knitting went viral.

Isn’t this a little too public? Usually, when a young man and woman are ‘On the Threshold’, they are desperately making out in the back seat of an old Pontiac, with his hands up her shirt.

when she invited him in to see her knitting, he clearly had another idea…

“Well, Grayson, you have only yourself to blame. If you didn’t buy such skin-tight britches to show off your ‘assets,’ you wouldn’t be constantly splitting them! And I WILL NOT repair them ‘in situ!’”

Leighton appears to paint similar themes

His male subjects are frustrated, it seems:

In approaching fiancées or girlfriends

Each poor schmuck thus portrayed tends

To come right apart at the seams.

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The subtle theme is anything but,

And symbolic intention is open and shut

Although it might seem quite romantic,

Each gentleman is actually frantic

And Sigmund Freud would chuckle, “Tut, tut.”

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Freud would recommend psychoanalysis

For the suitors to overcome their paralysis

And become boldly forward

To make their true emotions toward

The ladies as thread and needle analogous.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Leighton

I’ve nothing funny to add here. I’m not a knit wit.

Abigail was proud of herself. Franklin had a knack for turning any activity into a naughty conversation. Today, for the first time, he stood in befuddled silence.

We we’re supposed to leave for the party 15 minutes ago, and now you decide you need to make a different outfit

She found herself, sadly, betrothed/

to a man whom she utterly loathed/

But she couldn’t deny/

As the decades flew by/

He was always splendidly clothed..

The original ASMR experience.

I do wish someone would invent the LED lightbulb so I can do this white-on-white embroidery indoors.

Penelope stalling yet another suitor.

Jim, I will allow you to see my ankles when I am finished with my knitting, until then, you will just have to stand and wait in anticipation.

Knit one, purl two – or is the other way ’round? I can never remember.

“Dear, could you hurry? The hunting group leaves in half an hour and I fear the saddle will chafe me terribly should I not have underclothes!”

Johns hoping that if he hangs around long enough he will see some ankle.

“Just curious, dear, but why are there four sleeves on the sweater you’re knitting?”

♬I got a freaky ole lady name a Cocaine Katy♬

♬Who embroiders on my jeans♬ — Dr. Hook

On The Threshold: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Edmund Blair Leighton" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckgo, and Ecosia search engines) in the address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click the first Category: found, and once there, search for the Threshold text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B4 paper size, oil on panel painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #310 (8/19/10) (November 9, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 43 works by this artist have been used here (52 times total, including this Throwback Thursday and other repeats), the May 9, 2012, strip being its first use (the 21 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, and the line breaks removed, but perhaps the text remains informative). The August 22, 2022, strip is the prior non-repeat by him.

Elizabeth at eye level with Jacks “business” could hardly avert her eyes for less than a few seconds. she got a good view anyway. while pretending to do her needlepoint.

Eliz hurrily knitting a cozy for jack’s jock, before the winter chills set in.

Oswald, I see you are wearing your tight tights again!

I’m old and slow. Finally have a response to October 25th picture.

It’s on facebook …

https://www.facebook.com/stevethevagabond/photos/a.777473768978581/5815919871800587/

I’m monogramming the new baby’s initials into the booties. What is your last name?