Brinsop and the literary connections

 

I found something relaxing to make last night.  I had intended to work on the Peter Rabbit x-stitch, but all the threads were in my big box upstairs, so I reached for this instead and had fun cutting out and starting to sew Mrs Cat's dress.  I am sure Rosie will love her.

The instructions say to do a chain stitch across the pocket, to make it look woven.  In the afternoon I did a 3 more blocks for the new quilt for my bed.

It requires 40 blocks, and then will make up quickly as these in rows with plain long rows in between.  I think I have enough navy Strawberry Thief for the plain rows.

Now, back to St George's church at Brinsop . . .

There was a nice piscina just inside the door, which was used for booklets about the Wordsworth Connection.

A beautifully sculpted memorial to William Dansey of Brinsop Court.

The wall paintings were indeed rather ghostly.  This is Christ on the cross.

Something else in a window aperture . . .

Amazingly, photos of the people that Kilvert wrote about . . .

I think this bottom photograph was of an illustration of Dorothy Wordsworth.

There were quite a few photographs by way of illustration of the page from Kilvert's Diary.  I just took snaps of a few.

 

St Faith, with the grid on which she was put to death.  There's a cheerful thought . . .

The Virgin Mary.

St Dorothea with her basket of flowers.

Apologies for the lack of clarity in some pages - my phone camera is not the best.  That poor boy, seeing his beloved dog hanging lifeless from the tree . . .  You think they might have shot him instead, and hastened his death.  (The dog that is, not the child!)

In my teens, once I started work, I bought a little paperback diary of Dorothy Wordsworth.  Sadly, it was in the downsizing cull before we moved here.

However, having perused THIS book, on display in the church, I came home and found the cheapest copy online and treated myself . . .

Have a good week all.