My grandmother and mother trained me well as a small child...sitting reading even was frowned on..."if you have time to sit and read you have time to do something useful"...mind you, I ignored that injunctive quite blithely, being an inveterate bookworm from a very early age.
However, as reading is quite exclusive, (as is using a device on social media when in company), and the evening is shared time Tim and I tend to spend together, we usually watch DVD's or favourite serials, listen to jazz on ABC, that sort of thing at this time. Tim has always been a great viewer of anything TV but he is very good at not imposing his non-critical viewing preferences when we are sitting together in the evening...
As I have been quite restricted in my mobility for the past three years I have used up practically all my existing stash of wool and other fibres in small projects and I now find myself scrabbling about looking for something to do that will keep my hands busy but leave my eyes and mind free for conversation and the current visual delight. I have been observing on Pinterest for some time little embroidered felt brooches and embellishments. I have a dear friend who loves brooches as much as I do, so I decided to make her one...I owe her a letter so I thought it would be a nice little surprise to add to the envelope when I send it off.
I have a small stash of fine wool felt scraps, so I got them out, found a few pieces that were suitable in colour, die cut them with my small circle dies, gathered up the embroidery threads and the box of beads.
I sat and stitched away at them last evening...here is what I came up with. No brooches, they were too wonky, but I thought they would make nice bright paper clips or pager markers for a journal...
Update on Pig...he is so very frail and is now failing by the hour. Until now he has eaten heartily and drunk water copiously, but from yesterday he is no longer doing either of these things. He simply sleeps almost all day, but he enjoys being out in the garden so much that he is out under his favourite fuchsia bush as I write...poor old chap, I don't think he will be enjoying physical things for very much longer.. his days are now drawing to a close.
However, it's a lovely sunny day so he will be warm enough there, and it certainly seems to be where he wants to be. May we all have it so at the end...
Di xx