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stitch and mend

Monday, March 29th, 2010

The cardie is in the suitcase, awaiting my mum’s clever stitchin-up needle.  Has been for a few days.  And next on the make do and mend schedule - a little cross stitch.  Whenever I cross stitch, I am oh-so-reminded how much I LOVE this.  Cross stitch was my first crafty enterprise, post childhood experimentation.  Our [...]

a handsome princeling

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The nice thing about needlepoint is that once you’ve got it underway, it pretty much looks after itself.  All it needs is a few hours of film or audio book each night and merrily it rolls along, no matter how sleepy or slow I feel.  Which is usually how I feel after dinner and dishes [...]

scratching an itch

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

It’s been an AGE since I have done any needlepoint - actually cannot remember what I last picked up - and whilst there are many, many projects - all pretty and worthy and waiting in my needlepoint bag - to be finished, I had such an itch to start something new.  Just something little, a [...]

the slow coming of autumn

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

This being our first real “autumn” in a long while, we are madly looking forward to watching the leaves turn orange and yellow and red and brown, the weather cooling and the nights growing longer; the coming of slippers and flannel.  And on this, the second day of March, it is indeed happening.

Every street I [...]

the many versions of bliss

Monday, March 1st, 2010

I pause, still my hands and my mind, and notice that Bliss has settled alongside me.  She is many things.  Warm and cosy, cool and fresh, spicy and fragrant.  Sometimes she is busy and focussed.  Other times dreamy and relaxed.  She may have a needle in hand, a book on her lap, or a dear [...]

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