I got busy yesterday. This little chair had been a rash buy and painted green and then "aged" - it just looked dirty. A quick paint job was essential. This morning I shall make up the little cushion in patchwork to set it off.
I glued the crinoline stretcher back into place and you can now SIT on this chair again! I shall polish it to perfection later.
Then I got totally wowed by a Daily Stitching Design project I'd seen on Instagram (k.j.turner - stitching for life). This is her wonderful project - I was so excited about this last night I thought about it every time I woke up!! I ordered Volume two - Circles - and printed it off just before I went to bed, which was not a good plan for a quiet night's sleep :)
The individual designs are up to you, and I was tempted by the floral designs, but think I can do those myself, and am already planning a little wall hanging with the Uffington White horse as a central motif. I have no end of embroidery threads and others . . . went searching for those before bed too!
I have masses of embroidery floss but I wanted this thread to do the separating bars between the designs. I had quite forgotten the burr-wood needle holder.
I also found a bag with these threads in, bought years ago when there was a long-established craft shop in King Street in Carmarthen. Covid did for them.
Plus some coloured tops for spinning practice.
Poor photo of the work that k.j.turner has shared on Instagram. So I won't be doing all just circles. Kate at the Last Homely House is doing this too, but will have probably bought all the design sketches. I just blew £7 on one. I have gone in my sewing cupboard and found one of the long lengths of linen an American penpal sent to me back in the 1990s! and has been put aside waiting for its turn to shine. I can't wait to get started!
This won't do. Time to get cracking.
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