Sunday, 22 September 2013

What next?

148 hours and 30 minutes over 51 sessions and about 51 months (that’s shameful) but here it is. I finally finished the red kite tonight. I’ll take it to be framed in two weeks time and then it can be displayed proudly in our flat at last…
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Unfortunately, this does mean that we do not have any dinner tonight – oops!

Sunday, 1 September 2013

This is what 133 hours of cross-stitching looks like…

With rather a lot of the project still to go, this is what 133 hours of stitching on my red kite project looks like. I did six and a half hours today, which is the longest stint I have so far done in one day. What a great way to spend the last Sunday of the summer holidays, especially considering I haven’t actually picked this up since April 2012!

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It’s only the landscape left to do. Here’s a closer look at the area I’m working on at the moment…

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Saturday, 31 August 2013

A Christening Gift

It’s Alice’s christening today. I’ve made this little piece to commemorate the event for Bill, Melanie and Alice. I must be out of practice because it seemed to take me a really long time although watching The Great British Bake Off at the same time probably didn’t help!

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Friday, 30 August 2013

Birthday Cake

My wonderful but cheeky sister turned 30 this week and requested that she have the same birthday cake that Mum made me last year. That’s being very generous, it was more of a demand really! Anyway, this year the task fell on me so I spent a couple of evenings creating this…

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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

His and Hers–not exciting but hopefully functional

David has been nagging me for such a long time to make him a strap cover for his binoculars. I have finally got around to doing it. I do sympathise and the ordinary straps really do rub your neck when you’re not wearing a polo-shirt so I made myself one too. These are made from an old sheet and although they’re not the ideal birding colour I’m hopeful that they will keep us slightly more comfortable during our summer birding aboard.
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