Last week was very busy and by the time I got home each evening I was worn out. The result... very little sewing or knitting got done. As it was busy I decided I needed to make sure I had a proper lunch break. I decided to take my lunch over to the park each day and I also took my carry along stitching. This has been living in my handbag for a while. When I was collecting youngest daughter from work I would often have a while to wait. The problem with nursing is that you can't just stop work as the shift ends. You need to finish whatever you are doing for the patient and the handover also has to happen. I'd put this cross stitch bookmark in my bag, it's small and easy to pick up where I'd left off, and on the evenings she was late finishing I'd have something to fill the time. Over lunchtimes last week I got quite a bit done. Here's how it looked at the beginning of last week.
I'm pleased with my progress, all done over lunch.
This bookmark has been around for ages so it will be great to finish it. This week I was also working on the Star Trek cross stitch during the evenings. Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of spare time in the evenings so I didn't get much done. Here's the before photo...
and after. I did some more of the yellow boxes but I also wanted to complte the blue banner but I didn't quite get it done. This will now be put away until next Monday. I have to admit I'm enjoying alternating the slow stitching projects. I should have thought of doing this earlier.
Yesterday John and I went to a Macmillan coffee morning organised by John's sister. We've gone to it the last two years. It was quiet when we arrived but it got very busy later. I took a couple of photos of embroidery completed by Sue Monk. This cat piece was supposed to be done on white aida and the baclground all done with black cross stitch. She decided to stitch on black aida. Her solution made the cat stand out much better.
I liked this delicate piece and all the patterns on it. It's rather small so remember you can blow up the photo.
Whilst at the coffee morning I bought some fabric and so did John. Here are my two pieces of fabric. They are both width of fabric with repeat of the pattern.
I have a plan for these two pieces but it won't happen until next year. These are John's fabrics. He also has a plan but won't tell me what it is.
These fabric are Shweshwe African fabrics. When you buy them they are very stiff, so the fabrics have to be pre-rinsed. This can be done in a machine using the shortest, coolest rinse cycle. Once rinsed and dried the fabrics are very soft.
I also won a bottle of white Malbec on the tombola stall. We'll enjoy that later in the week.
This last weekend we were away and we visited a very interesting museum about that area of Somerset. I'll write about it in my next post.
take care
Lyndsey
