I thought I'd better catch up on my blog posting as I've been rather tardy about it lately. Today's been another beautifully sunny day and I'm just back from a long healthy walk, ready to crash out on the sofa for the evening. I've got a book to read, 'The House of Whispers' by Laura Purcell. I realised when I started it that I'd read it before, but I can't remember how the story ends so it's worth a re-read. The book's set in Cornwall, and is a gothicky creepy read, full of unexplained noises and lights out to sea, talk of supernatural goings-on and featuring as it's central character a devious servant with an over-fondness for gin and laudanum. This is the latest completed page of my Ann Wood stitchbook challenge. Mainly masses of seed stitches. It's not the most complicated of pages, but I enjoyed sewing it. You can't really see from the photo, but I used Christmas material on the left hand side. I turned it over, so ...
Bright sunny days and light evenings, tulips and daffs flowering along with anemones, grape hyacinths and forget-me-nots. What's not to like about this time of year? Of course, the date the clock's go forward by an hour is strange as you feel oddly discombobulated for the entire day. The same goes for when the clocks go back in the autumn. Time's shifted when it's normally so dependable, and your internal body clock needs a while to adjust. In between gardening and allotmenting I've completed another page for my Ann Wood stitchbook, and that - if my maths is correct - means I've only 6 more pages to sew before I'm all done 'n' dusted. I also began making another fabric book, this one nothing to do with the stitchbook challenge. I have a rectangle of sample fabric that's ideal for a cover, being a sturdier upholstery material, and sewed a scrap of Indian embroidery on to it. Plus added a sari-silk ribbon as a closure. ...