Needle and Thread

At Ripple Bay of course everything goes right all the time? Not so. Last night we and friends for dinner and i left a pan steaming happily away by accident and it burnt on the bottom of the saucepan (no photo of that little beauty!). This compares to the last time when the same friends came over and I had somehow forgotten to visit the butchers and so we had a meatless BBQ. Anyone would think I was vegetarian…oh yes actually i am the lone vegetarian in the household. Hmmmm.

On a more positive note I was happily sewing away this morning, straight after breakfast steadfastly ignoring the sink full of dirty dishes, and listening to the dulcet tones of kids with friends playing happily (aka fighting and yelling) when they decided to go and find fish in the estuary. Disaster struck!  One net had holes in it! Luckily crafty Mama had her needle and thread out and magically fixed things. Onwards and upwards…………….I'm off for a stiff coffee, Happy Weekending, Emma x

Long Weekend

paper plaster tape in use

All our plans for the long weekend had to be shelved at the last minute as one by one we all got the dreaded lurgy. The upside to this was a big blank canvas for hanging about together and getting stuff done. I finally picked up a Blue silk quilt which has been waiting for some hand-stitch quilting and I got a fair amount done, it is such an easy thing to pick up and put down. There is something therapeutic about small handstitches on a big scale, meditation for the mind of a sort I suppose. I am using up some paper tape left over from our plaster board venture last year, it works a treat for marking out the straight lines for sewing.