The first of my new purchases that I investigated was the new ruler
oh dear, this one is quite a bit trickier to stitch with than the first ones I bought
for my second attempt I drew a line to try to keep the sewing straighter - a slight improvement. This ruler is going to take more practice!
I then did a little doodling with spirals
after changing thread, I stitched two peapods and did a little meander under them
I had just taken this photo of the contents of the elephant kit when Malcolm popped into the studio. As I explained to him about the little sachet of glue granules, to be used to stick little flecks of foil to the fabric, I could see he was frowning. I assured him that I would cover the work with baking parchment before ironing it, and he said he had been worried about the mess it might otherwise make of the iron. I found this quite funny, as the only thing I have ever seen Malcolm iron is an edging strip on to a kitchen worktop!
I decided to make the little Japanese bag, as all too often I buy these kits and then don't make them for months (if not years!). I ironed the two pieces of fabric right sides together and popped them on the cutting mat, ready to trim them square and then pin them together
it was so quick to make the bag that I had almost finished it before I realised that I hadn't taken any more photos of the stages of construction! So here is the ta-da!
I popped my sashiko pin cushion into the centre pocket
then moved it to the front pocket - there is a similar pocket on the back (and there are two little secret pockets inside too!)
after the huge loads on the road on Sunday, we arrived in Berwick this morning to find a very large ship in the dock
there was a constant stream of lorries coming into the dock all day - at times they had to queue to discharge their loads into the ship
we had hoped that the ship would leave at high tide this evening, but it is still there. Perhaps we will see it leave in the morning. There were other arrivals today, which we were delighted to see ...... yes, the swans are back!