Slow Sunday Stitching.

Today was a free day so I decided to try and get the butterfly blocks for the Red Manor House quilt made. The pieces were all cut out so I just needed to follow the instructions and get the four blocks made. All did not go to plan. For some reason I kept making mistakes and I seemed to unpick every seam. I know it wasn't that bad but it certainly felt like it. I kept misreading how the pieces went together. Eventually I sorted all the pieces into piles, made sure they were the right way round, labelled them and finally got them stitched together. The upper wings are not on a white or cream background but it looks like they are. You can also see one of my mistakes just above the left lower wing. This should have been the upper wing fabric but I used the background fabric. This has been corrected.

My plans for this evening are to enjoy some slow stitching. I have a range of projects to choose from and so far this year I haven't worked on any of them. The star Trek cross stitch is a long term project. I used to love doing cross stitch but in recent years I have fallen out of love with it. I'm certainly going to spend at least an hour on this today. I can't work on it for very long as the black background doesn't work well for my eyesight. However the colours of the stitching are nice and bright.

This afternoon when I was changing the water in the flowers I got a lovely surprise. I have a flower delivery every two weeks and in my last delivery there was some hazel twigs. The twigs have now grown roots and leaves. We're going to plant them in a large pot outside and then propagate some more twigs. Katy would like to create a willow hedge in her garden.

I'm linking this post with Kathy from Kathy's Quilts for her Slow Sunday Stitching Do pop over and see what everyone is doing.

Take care

Lyndsey