Slow stitch Sunday

 

The pink poppies are in full swing on the allotment.  Masses of them.  

I'm not the biggest fan of this particular variety as they're a bit too 'pink frilly knickers', but I love them when they're in bud and just about to bloom, also when the seed-heads appear.  I always collect way too much seed for my own needs, so scatter handfuls on grass verges, hoping they'll pop up at roadsides in years to come.  

Once home, I had the urge to do some simple stitching.  Ages ago I cut out and kept a picture of these little fabric pieces by Janet Bolton.  

I intended to make something similar.  Plain fabric background, simplified image of a dragonfly.  Initially I gathered together orange material, along with neutral pale browns and cream.  But I didn't have quite the right brown for the colour scheme I wanted.  Anyway, I always tend to drift toward pink.  So instead I picked out a scrap of pink with gold hearts, as well as a linen look plain pink that I particularly like.  

Using a straightforward running stitch I sewed horizontal and vertical lines, then added a simple binding.  

I'm dithering now over whether to add a dragonfly or not.  I quite like the idea of something delicate, the wings going over the edges of the binding.  I'll put this mini project aside for now and have a think about it.  

I'm typing this blog post to the sound of rainfall.  Finally we've got showers, and probably later there'll be thunder and lightning, a good storm to clear the air.  I'll read another chapter of my book before I turn in tonight.  Kate Mosse 'The City of Tears'.  It's a doorstep of a book, but very readable, an old-fashioned page turner and all the better for it. 

Hope you enjoy what's left of the weekend.  Bye!