Another Hell and Damnation Quilt!!

 

It is stunning, this Tumbling Blocks/Baby's Blocks quilt, but quite bulky and hard to work with.  Pippy has jumped on it a couple of times when I had part of it on my lap (stitching) and part of it on the arm of the chair and there are 2 brown diamonds cut through in the middle from her claws, little ratbag, so I may have to review damage and perhaps replace those.  The old cotton velvet is quite frail in places, a couple of completely bald diamonds in the mix, and others are still "moulting" and others have perished and split across the middle so are having to be replaced.

Even the unpicking takes forever as original sewer used lots of tiny stitches.  It's been mended in the past as someone used originally bright pink thread to resew the border - I'm unpicking and replacing with black.

I sat all afternoon and binge-watched a programme on Netflix called Unchosen.  I can recommend it - 6 part drama about a religious sect in England, The Fellowship of the Divine, it is about a young woman and her daughter, wanting to try and escape the confines of its control and narrow-minded bigotry after an Unchosen man is dropped into the mix.  I was intrigued to learn that there are many such sects operating in the UK right now. This was discovered during research behind the series.

I didn't sleep well, woke at 3 a.m. and came downstairs for the first time in months.  Then Alfie Wanted To Go Out - unfortunately as I went to the door I saw the horrid tom cat in our yard, the one who was introduced as a mouser by someone who has brought her horse a field away for grazing.  It has caused no end of trouble, as he fought with Alfie and was responsible for Alfie's broken teeth (he must have hit his head on a rock as they were fighting on the bank, which has rocks at edge). With two elderly cats and my two girls, I do NOT want him about.  I went to the effort and expense to have my cats neutered and spayed.  Other people should do the same.  So I got thoroughly awake, watching over Alfie (and then L. Whale came out) as he had a drink and he wasn't at all impressed by not being allowed to stay out for a mooch around in the moonlight. 

I am going for a walk now - it's a lovely sunny spring day - and then back to finish (hopefully) the quilt, as I want to try and get a bit of gardening done today too, as tomorrow is L. Whale for check up at vets first thing, then packing for the Fair.

The bridge (or rather the river) marks the boundaries of Brecknock and Radnorshire meeting.  I live the Brecknock side.  Today I shall take my walk in Radnorshire, along the old railway line.