Thursday 25th February

 I can't believe we are almost at the end of February, lets hope the next few months fly as quickly and we can get back together again.  I have been for a beautiful walk this morning with my cousin who is 80 years old./We went along the seafront, round the Marine Drive, picked up a take-away coffee and sat on a bench near Peasholm, then up Columbus Ravine, Dean Road through to Falsgrave and back to her home where I left the car, five miles in all and we never stopped chatting. We never did anything like that before Covid so there are some good things come out of it.

I am now arranging our exhibition for the autumn of this year instead of May as we won't be able to do it then and will keep you all posted when the date is fixed.  Keeping my fingers crossed that the Knitting and Stitching Show will go on in its usual format in November, I am keeping saving onto lasts years money so I will have plenty to spend.

I have had some lovely photos this week.  Ann has been doing some experimenting with cross stitch.

This is the Champagne Pool at Rotorua, New Zealand

This piece has all six stitches we have been looking at as well as cretan stitch.  The bacground is Ann's piece of felt from Barbara's stash.

Lesley has also been busy.

This is the eco dying we did a couple of years ago and Lesley has been highlighting the prints with stitch as a sampler.

My daughter has now finished book 2 cover.  The book is A Town Like Alice, her favourite book of all time and the cover is some fabric that she felt looked vaguely Aboriginal.  She has stitched around the circles and the metal piece has a traditional Aboriginal design.

That's it for this week.  I have managed to get into the garden for a couple of hours so hope to do some more in the next few days which means the stitching will get pushed to a side. I've no doubt it will still be there when I get rained off.