
Lauren Steeper (Sheffield, UK) has a cross-stitch game, Lottery Words, and I want to play! It is just the sort of highly ordered and yet completely unnecessary ritual that I love. And it combines crafting and words? So awesome!
To start, she cut every word out of the dictionary and threw them in a jar. That’s right. Every word.
Each week, she:
- Picks 49 words out of the jar at random
- Uses the numbers drawn by the National Lottery to select 6 of the 49 words
- Determines color and font based on the bonus ball
- Cross-stitches the words as her system dictates











Maybe you could go to the Thesaurus and find words that you like or connected the mood your trying to create.
Word of the day: Word of the Day
irriguous
This is pretty awesome!
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