Happy New Year

A good start - I've lost the text I like. Never mind, it won't
hurt. Had a camera for Christmas. Thought I'd show a
few pics taken since Christmas day, in no particular order!
This is a pond we walked past on Boxing day................

My mate on the way home, crashed out at my feet...................

A hat I made for a Christmas walk! ..............and I wore it!

Last year I made some Helen Cowan 'towers' but didn't

finish them properly because I wanted to be able to
flat pack them and put them away. I decided to finish
them off with a detachable crown. I think the crowns need

to be more flamboyant but I like them.........................

A wedding anniversary card for my parents for New Years
eve.........................

Ice in over some oyster shells in a bucket in the garden.........

Frosty grass..................

The other evening with family playing with a WII thing!

I t caused great hilarity....................By the way, he's skiing!Hope you've thought about your new years resolutions.

More about that later.

Happy New Year.................................

Merry Christmas

These trees have been decoratesd by children using
mostly natural things - popcorn, apples with cloves.
Aren't they lovely!

I have done a little stitching, just some quilting, and made a small

forest of christmas trees.......
.....and a couple of bigger trees for extra special cards.

I think a New Years resolution for me should be to learn

to take better photographs of my work.

This is my tree this year, put up rather quickly, no real

enthusiasm last weekend but it looks okay.

And finally ............Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year to you all.

Problem, last post

The link to Dale's blog in the last post doesn't work.
I've made the correction as an edit but it doesn't seem
to want to change the actual post. To save time and
energy I decided to let you know this way. You can follow
the link at the side - I hope!

Sad news, Julia Caprara

Just learned some really sad news.

Julia Caprara died last week. She will be sadly missed.

Her influence and contribution to the world of Textiles was huge.

Read it on Dales blog 'Downunderdale', can't find a mention

of it anywhere else.

Bye.......................

Fish return, first stitching, kimono top

The fish have been away on holiday at Sutton Hoo. The packaging
was damaged but the quilt wasn't, thank goodness.
I've actually done some stitching. Two years ago at the Festival
of Quilts I bought some Japanese fabric with the intention of
making a kimono style top. Well, I drafted a pattern and started
making it in June/July and I've finally finished it. I only needed
to do the hemming. It only took about 20 minutes.

It's even got proper sleeves. I shall be using this pattern again

and adapting it.I can never do the same thing twice!

To top everything at the moment the washing machine died

last week, it wouldn't spin. It needed new brushes...........

sounds like I know what I'm talking about, I don't.

The engineer, a nice chap called Terry, came this morning and

fixed it.

Told you it'd be a long one ............... Bye!

Horseradish

It's bliss to get out in the garden unaided. Saw this ..........

..........something likes eating horseradish leaves. One day I'll

get round to using it myself!

Second outing

The following week my other half had a day off to have his car
serviced. To save messing about crossing town we went for a
walk in Darley Park. It's very close to the centre of town, in fact
if you keep going in this direction (below) you'll get there.

The River Derwent runs throught the park. There used to a school

in the park, many moons ago!

Saw this tasteful graffiti...................................................

Time well spent. Still not inspired to do any textiles!