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Next stitching update!

I didn't get much further with the cushion for Mary. A few more stitches have gone in, and the large flower I was attempting to finish by yesterday is looking more rose-like. See what you think....

Actually, I am quite pleased with the amount I've done, although it looks relatively small. I shall continue with it a bit more this month, but will also work on Chatelaine's Fairytale Castle which is my number 7, the number which came up yesterday. I was desperately hoping it wouldn't be 1 as that's Frederick the Literate which is on black. He's yowling frantically at me from my sewing stash!!

So here is my number 7 before I start focussing on it:

It will be good to get a bit more done, especially as I intend to use it as a quilt centrepiece. 

HAED have just had a 50% off  New Year sale which finished at midnight on January 31st. I didn't find out about it till shortly before the deadline!! That's the trouble with having a poorly laptop!! Anyway, I bought two charts: Belvedere by Escher, and Owl Family Portrait by Annya Kai. When I will have a chance to stitch them is anyone's guess! I have also added quite a lot of yarn in the form of double knitting. My plan is to make Bruce a sweater for Christmas. Yes, I know it is a long way off, but I think I will need a lot of time as it's a cable pattern. Anyway, I couldn't decide whether to use a tweedy dark purple or a rather nice heather green - so I got both!! Now to start knitting when he's not around.

I did promise an update on the fridge-freezer which arrived safely with two very helpful drivers who got it set up in the right place, and who took away both our fridge and our freezer - yes, both of them! Shortly after Freegling the fridge, Bruce commented that it was warm, and, yes, it was at room temperature. So I hastily removed it from Freegle and put some frozen ice blocks in it to help, and then we had to hope that all our cold food would keep for 3 days. Meantime, the freezer fluctuated between 0 and -30 deg C. Fortunately, the day the fridge-freezer was due to arrive, it had dropped to -30, so we were able to unload it into our cold garage, and the contents of the fridge went into one of the colder rooms of the house. By the time we were able to load it, we were pretty tired, but we had been promised a very cold night, so we just loaded the fridge part, and went to bed. But around midnight, we realised that the cold night wasn't going to happen, and that it was actually going to be rather warm. Had any of our neighbours been up and around, they would have seen us unloading the garage in our nightwear and carting it into the house. I put the important stuff into the freezer, and the rest was left till morning when I sorted through what was still eatable. I might add that we had an interesting assortment of meals for a while, but now everything is better organised and we are back to "normal"!

Quilting group tomorrow, so more small triangles. Then I really must get to grips with Sunday's sermon!

Till next time, then
Jenny