Whilst I was on my travels I had quite a lot of time sitting on trains, (four days worth according to the interrail app!) both my daughter and I spent some of the time stitching. I used to stitch on lake shores too whilst keeping an eye on my daughter swimming, several people stopped to see what I was stitching. I had packed some of my bird alphabet patterns and made sure I had lots of thread.

Before I went I had just finished the letter P, so I took the sheet of patterns which had Q to T and I just about finished the four letters over the six weeks.

I think birds portrayed are a yellowhammer, a warbler (R could be any number of little brown birds but as he is singing I’m plumping for a warbler!) a blue throat and long tailed tits.

As you can see I’ve already stitched the back-stitch edge round each one, I use this to whip-stitch the pages together. I might start making the pages soon so I’m not left with a big pile at the end. I’ve been stitching U since I got back home and it’s almost finished – I feel I’m on the home stetch now.