Family Get-together

Wednesday March 28th I met up with my two sisters and 18 yr old granddaughter to have some catch-up time, and also to visit the Turner exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. As you might imagine, a lot of talking happened! After lunch, the exhibition and a cup of tea, DGD and I went to the V&A just briefly to see the Golden Spider cape. I managed to get some photos, plus some of other items made with spider silk. A pity we didn't have longer there.

A -stashing I have been!

Thursday I went to the Sewing for Pleasure exhibition in Birmingham with three friends. I had good intentions of sticking to my shopping list of replacement clip-on magnifying glasses, fabric for Chatelaine's Fairytale Castle, and a simple longstitch kit for my next-door neighbour. and then just enjoying looking at the displays, and getting inspiration.
Well. I bought the fabric, but had no success with the longstitch kit, and a mixed result for the clip-ons. For this last, I had to buy the wrong magnification and ask DH to switch lenses from my old pair which I couldn't see to do! Anyway, I can now see comfortably to stitch.
I ended up with all sorts of other bits and pieces, including a number of peyote beading patterns which looked quite easy - until I returned home. Of course, I also had to buy the beads to go with them and some bead containers! Then there was the "friendly plastic", odd skeins of thread, a Christmas card kit, petites sizes 26 and 28, double-sided tape, extra fabric as it was on offer, and some dolls house bits and pieces for DGD #2. But I mustn't forget the two charts of cars for DS #1 and DD, Jensen Button's F1 and a Citroen 2CV respectively, nor the two 3D Christmas Houses from the Nutmeg Company which I fell in love with - and they were so friendly on the stand! Photos will come later.

Meantime I have finally finished DGD #3's baby shawl, and am very close to finishing DGD #2's shawl for her baby doll. I visit on Tuesday, so have a very tight schedule for that!

Hello

This is just a test run to see how this blog will look.

I am planning that it will feature not just my cross stitching, but also any other type of craft work that I attempt. Currently I am finishing off yet another shawl for yet another grandchild, and a shawl for DGD #2's baby doll. Hopefully they will both be finished this weekend.

Also in the pipeline are some peyote and other beading; assorted cross stitching projects, including some 3D ones; some patchwork projects (of indeterminate nature at the moment); a skirt, for next autumn now, and a knitted hat and scarf. So much to do, so little time!!

I plan to put some pics on here to keep things updated. I'm gradually realising I haven't photographed all my projects, and some of these I will probably never see again. Maybe I will add in some of my mother's work at a later date, but that will depend on time. What I don't want to do is spend so much time writing that my stitching suffers.

I think that's enough for now, and enough to sort out the layout I want.