Thursday 29th April

 Rain at last, although not for long.  I was hoping it would be long enough to prevent me from cleaning the car but no such luck.  I haven't done much sewing this week although I have got started on a piece but it won't show up on a photograph yet.  However, others have been busy.  I promised you some photos of Ann's rabbits, so here they are.

Aren't they just beautiful.  She is still making the little ones, breeding them just like rabbits!

Another Ann has made this lovely box lid.  The box was made by her husband, think he might be getting a few orders.

Roma has continued her work with the apple theme practicing her free motion machine embroidery. I like that the coloured apple almost jumps out at you.

That's it for this week.  Eight weeks to go to our first meeting, can't wait.

Thursday 22nd April

 Have just spent a lovely day sitting in a garden with three friends eating lots of cake and drinking tea and coffee and lunch, nothing beats it.  I did make a mistake last night putting my newly planted seeds outside for a water and then forgetting to bring them in for the night.  The pots were frozen solid this morning so i think I shall have to start all over again.  I haven't done a lot of sewing this week, finishing off the fly stitch samples and making another owl for my daughter.

Owl number two.

Roma has been much busier than me, making this lovely apple from a technique she found using four different fabrics to produce light and shade into the item.

I hope the weather is like this tomorrow as I have a garden bench to finish varnishing so that I can sit at the bottom of the garden where it gets the sun for the longest.  Keep stitching everyone.

Friday 16th April

 My apologies for being a day late, I completely forgot it was Thursday yesterday.  Having my hair cut had gone completely to my head!  I looked in the mirror when I got home and thought 'I look ten years younger than I did this morning' , so Boris, no more lockdowns please and if you have to, leave the hairdressers open.

I haven't had any photos sent this week and I haven't been doing much in the way of hand sewing.  I have caught up with my fly stitch and they are now ready to go in my book. I also found among Barbara's stash, a pattern for an owl using up pieces of patchwork fabric, so my daughter asked me to make one for her which I have done and part filled him with some lavender I picked and dried last summer.

Friday 9th April

 What a cold week this has been.  Luckily my daughter chose this week to decorate her bedroom and en suite so I have been there helping out.  I have left her today to tidy up and start to move back in.  Needless to say, I have not done a lot of sewing but Roma has been busy with one of the Textile Artists workshops.

This is a landscape worked on a vilene background which you then make into a vessel to fit round a jam jar

and you make this lovely vase for your spring garden flowers.

I could have done with one of those last week when I had a few daffodils that had fallen over in the wind and I brought them in but they looked a bit lost in an ordinary vase.

I have finished my Indian man ready to put into my sample book, it just needs tidying up.

The face is not very clear in the photograph but it does stand out ok in the flesh!

Thursday 1st April

 Had a lovely day meeting up with friends outside supposedly stitching but it was a bit too cold for that so we just chatted and ate cake.  I haven't done a lot of stitch this week, I have been catching up with the free workshops that TextileArtists have been offering.  Sue Stone did the first one and I have been doing a piece based on a picture I have of an Indian gentleman who handles spices and his face, neck and turban were covered in red and yellow spice.  This is as far as I have got.

I now need to put in his moustache and some stitching in the fabrics.

Roma has done the same workshop and this is her piece. 

This is her late mother when she was young.

Ann followed a project I suggested to a group of friends and made a book to fit in a tin and this is what she did.

The tin is tiny as is the book and the lovely beaded lid made a real delicate piece of work.

That's it for this week, Ann has made some beautiful stuffed rabbits but when I got home I realised my camera hadn't worked so I will get her to forward me a photo for next week.  I may be posting later than Thursday next time as I will be away from home that day.