It's Saturday afternoon, and I haven't done half the things I'd meant to. Partly because I spent most of this morning messing about with paints, stencils and the gell plate. Never mind, everything on today's 'To Do' list will join tomorrow's 'To Do' list ... it's hardly life or death if I don't haul the hoover around the room or pull up weeds in the front garden.
I thought I'd show you what I made on Wednesday. I'd gone to my monthly StitchArt group, and this time we did something a little different. There's a project called 'Threads of Freedom' which is working with various community groups across the city. It's about creating little stitched pieces, some of which will be included in a textile panel to go on display at Leeds art gallery. There was lots of fabric we could choose from to sew with, and I picked this vintage tray cloth with the roses embroidery.
My own embroidery's not a patch on those flowers, but I did a simple map, naming some of the streets and adding the river and railway line. If you're wondering about the yellow circle, it's to represent the Corn Exchange. A famous circular building in Leeds city centre, and the shape inside the circle is meant to be a corn cob! (If you want to know what the real Corn Exchange looks like, google it. It's a seriously impressive building.) I doubt my little embroidered effort will make it on to the art gallery walls, but it was a fun challenge to try and 'write' with thread.
I've also been knitting. A basic triangular shawl using 4mm needles (I think) and two strands of double knitting wool. Sometimes the knitting bug bites me and I feel the urge to knit and purl, but I can't cope with peering at complicated patterns and endlessly counting stitches. This shawl is so easy as you simply cast on 3 stitches, then increase I stitch at the end of each row.
I gave up trying to read 'The Luminaries'. It's well written, but very densely plotted and twisty-turny and not the kind of book you can speed through. I felt weighed down by it, so off it's going to the charity bookshelf for another bookworm to hopefully enjoy. I managed to pick up three more books secondhand. £2.50 for the three. I'm very pleased to have found the Philippa Gregory one. It ambitiously covers 900 years of women's history, and not just that of the rich and famous women either.
The C.J. Sansom novels are usually intriguing mysteries, and don't you love the funky Scandi style tablemats? A bargain at £1.00 for the pair of them.
This embroidered table runner was a pound too. So pretty, and hasn't a lot of work gone into stitching these vibrant blooms.
There's not a great deal else to tell you about. I've been continuing to fill my junk journal with - well, with junk! Food packaging, illustrations cut out of magazines, all kinds of nonsense. I've also started what'll be a big effort to turn my spare bedroom (a.k.a. the dumping ground) into a dedicated craft room. I'd love to buy lots of new shelving and get the room expertly fitted out, but the budget won't allow that. So I'm making do with the furniture I've already got. Moving it around, re-purposing things, making do and mending.
It's been a quiet week as the summer's slid into autumn, so that's about all from me. Hope you're well, and thanks for stopping by.
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