Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden

Posted on June 2, 2020 by craftycreeky

I’m sitting writing this in my sewing room watching the rain clouds gathering, hopefully we have some decent rain coming as there’s lots of deep cracks appearing in our clay soil, it’s so dry. It’s over two months since we had any rain worth writing home about!

I’ve just picked all my pink peonies, they were flopping anyway so there is no way they would survive a downpour, I may as well enjoy them inside. These are big and blousy, all frills. They smell lovely.

If last week was bearded iris week, this week is the turn of the peony. I love peonies, I have several round the garden, some old established clumps, others only planted in the last twelve months. These deep pink ones are a lovely goblet shape and an amazing deep colour, I would have picked these too but I don’t think they would like being picked either, they open to a simple petalled affair, perfect landing stage for bees!

They’re quite striking too, there’s not many flowers but they certainly make an impact. On the fence behind the clematis is still in flower, climbing up by the philadelphus. This is the remains of a huge shrub which our neighbour tried to remove when the fence was built. It was far too big, but I’m rather pleased a bit has survived as I love the scent, it fills the garden in the evening.

The self-seeded foxgloves are all starting to flower around the rose obelisk. I’m pleased with how that is covered too, last year it was a bit uneven, but I spent a bit of time a few weeks ago tying stems down, wrapping them round. It seems to have worked.

Down by the patio the Dutch irises are coming into flower. These are beautiful, they’re a deep Wedgewood blue with a silver outline round the petals. It was a clump my mum gave me years ago and despite the awful soil they’re in, it spreads more and more each year.

The irises are right round the birdbath now, obscuring it for most of the summer. You can just see the frost damage on the purple acer, we had quite a hard late frost in May and I’ve a few shrubs affected. The funny looking bulbs near the back are nectaroscordum.

Up by the pond the yellow iris are starting to flower, the rhododendron is also in full bloom, this is one of the few original plants from when I moved to the house twenty years ago, it doesn’t seem to have got any bigger in that time! The hostas are looking good, the Solomon’s seal is still in flower and there’s just a sprinkling of blue brunnera flowers left. Hubert the heron has all but disappeared!

From a distance he garden is looking pretty good, close up the bindweed and the mares tail are starting to appear, so I’ve started applying weedkiller. I don’t like using it but it seems to be the only way to get on top of these particularly pernicious weeds. I carefully unwind the bindweed, pop as much of it as I can inside a purple nappy bag (cheaper than black poo bags!!), spray inside the bag and then knot it! The weedkiller is contained and I know which ones I’ve treated! The downer is the sprinkling of purple bags round the garden!

Taking photos for these posts does help me stay positive when the weeds seem to be winning, it helps me to appreciate the pretty bits of the garden, not just see the work that needs doing. It’s been too hot to garden recently, so we’ve just enjoyed sitting outside with a cup of tea, enjoying our surroundings.

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Postcard from Yorkshire SAL

Posted on May 31, 2020 by craftycreeky

Three weeks ago when I finished Harry the Hare, I was all set to finish my other workshop WIP, my Bethlehem embroidery…

…however, I got distracted when I was looking through my kit box! I decided what I actually needed after a few long projects, both in quilting and embroidery projects, I needed a quickie! Something I didn’t have to concentrate on too much, especially in this hot weather!

I spotted a kit by the Nutmeg Company, It was an impulse buy a few weeks ago when I clicked onto the site to find a link for a question from one of my readers. Nutmeg Company are a little cross-stitch company based up in the picturesque village of Reeth in Swaledale, one of the higher valleys in the Yorkshire Dales. Anyone who follows the Tour de Yorkshire will have seen the cyclists whizz through the village. Anyway, Nutmeg designs do some rather pretty 3D designs, such as boxes, houses, Christmas trees, all in cross-stitch, I’ve made a couple myself….

I fell for a postcard kit. It’s a pretty view of a typical Swaledale scene. Swaledale is particularly known for it’s flower meadows, I think they get a grant now if they leave their hay meadows a little longer before cutting, just long enough for the flowers to set seed for next year. The meadows are beautiful at this time of year. This particular kit, however, is to raise money for the flood relief fund. Twice over the last couple of winters Reeth has been badly hit by floods. The profits from this kit go to the fund. I felt it was a good cause and I liked the picture.

It was quick and easy to stitch, it’s stitched on cross-stitch paper, which is like a firm, perforated paper, it’s 14 count, just cross-stitch, half cross-stitch and back stitch. I had to get into the habit of putting my needle into my scissor fob at the end of a stitching session as it would bend the paper to leave the needle in it.

It’s designd to be a handmade postcard, glued onto paper or card, I’m tempted to mount it on felt and add a little hanging loop. I think it’s rather pretty and it reminds me of holidays we used to have in my mum’s cottage in Wensleydale, we used to visit an open farm up in Swaledale several times a year, watching lambing, collecting eggs etc, the children loved it.

Just as an aside, I’m trying to organise my sewing room a bit better at the moment – I’ve almost managed to get all my fabric in my sewing room!! I was also having problems with an overflowing floss box. I have a lot of DMC threads, all on bobbins, they were in a lovely wooden box my mum had given to me, but it just wasn’t big enough. I spotted Creations by Rod on facebook and then found his website. He makes to order inserts for Ikea cube storage units for craft things, including one for embroidery bobbins or skeins, I ordered the bobbin one. It came pretty quickly considering everything that’s going on at the moment. I love it! Five drawers with dividers in, just the right size for my plastic bobbins. I’m now planning to use my mums box for all my other embroidery thread stash, I just need to bobinate it all!

This SAL is organised by Avis, we share our progress on a project every three weeks, please follow the links to see lots more stitching inspiration…

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Deborah, Mary Margaret, Renee, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, Connie, AJ, Jenny, Laura, Cathie, Linda, Sherrie, Helen

I’ll also be linking up with Kathy’s Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday, please follow the link for lots more stitching inspiration

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Slippers and Slip-ups!

Posted on May 28, 2020 by craftycreeky

I just made myself a pair of slippers, I bought a kit at a show last year and they’ve been sitting on my to do pile ever since with my fluffy pair getting more and more shabby – not helped by me nipping up the garden in them!

The kit includes the soles and the pattern, together with the instructions. They’re designed by Gertie Lau of Mushroom Village Crafts and are called Wrap Slippers.

The instructions include how to make a pair from little hexagons too, they look really pretty but as you know I haven’t really got the patience for mini hexagons, so I chose some pretty quilting cottons instead. The first job was to quilt the fabrics, I did a sort of check pattern with the butterflies in the squares for the top and some swirls or wiggles for the soles, I managed to fussy-cut the soles so I had a butterfly on each one.

Each slipper is made from two pieces which then overlap to give the shape. The edges were bound with bias, I happened to have some really pretty bias binding in my stash which was an impulse buy at a show, the colours don’t match perfectly but it does have purple flowers on it which was good enough for me during lockdown!

The instructions were well written and straight forward, the only bit I changed slightly was the size of the bias binding which goes round the sole, once the 1/4″ bias was stitched round the top it was flipped over and hand-stitched underneath, I found it easier with a slightly wider bias, still the same size on top but more to stitch underneath.

When it came to the last stage, stitching the slipper onto the sole I realised I had a bit of an issue, my kit had two left feet!! I couldn’t remember which company I’d bought the kit from so I found the kits on line and messaged the maker. Gertie was very apologetic and popped a right foot in the post straight away. I was a bit concerned as it was an American site I’d found her on, so I wasn’t sure how long it would take, especially at the moment. Luckily they were actually coming from the Midlands here in the UK! My replacement came within days.

To stitch on the sole you first have to make a row of holes round the rim with an awl. The instructions then say glue the slipper on first, I admit I missed that bit off as wanted a bit of leeway if it wasn’t right. At first I really struggled with the stitching. I used a big chenille needle with some top-stitching thread, the slippers are stitched on using a stab-stitch, so you go up and down the same hole of the sole. This is where the difficulty was, trying to get back down the hole, as my needle kept trying to start another one. I then had the idea of using the blunt end of the needle to go through the sole, it worked brilliantly, I just kept flicking between the sharp end to go through the fabric and the blunt end to go through the sole.

I was really chuffed with my slippers, they fit well, they’re comfortable. I showed them to my OH and he said ‘Shouldn’t the flap be the other way round, with the buttons on the outside?”

Oops!

I still really like my slippers, I’ll certainly make another pair when I’ve worn these out.

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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

Posted on May 25, 2020 by craftycreeky

We’ve had some pretty gusty winds over the last few days – strong enough to bring down some fair size branches on the back lane. I put an extra support next to my standard rose one evening as it was bending alarmingly and I didn’t want to wake up to a stick instead of a lollipop!Luckily everything seems to have survived…

The irises are gorgeous at the moment, the lavender ones are some special ones my mum ordered from France a few years back, they’ve have put on a great display this year. The flowers are huge…

The dark purple iris is one of my favourites, this one is from Thornton Hall gardens, it’s just beautiful. When the sunlight is behind it, it’s violet.

The dark purple iris is in my Amber & Amethyst garden, it’s working out well at the moment as it is right nextdoor to these wonderful lupins with a pretty tangerine orange geum behind.

The pond area is looking very verdant, the hostas are filling out nicely. The big variegated one by the path seems to avoid the attention of the slugs, touch wood it usually still looks great in the autumn. In fact most of the hostas here get little slug damage, the occasional toad we have by the pond must be doing his job. Hubert the heron is rapidly disappearing behind the Solomon’s seal.

At last years Harrogate show I bought a few clematis, I think I might have mixed up the pruning as some are very short, others are tall and just flowering at the top. I think I need a book to note which ones need pruning when! The big white blooms look quite startling against the dark fence.

I’m still plodding my way through the weeds in the front garden, but the big rose bush has come into flower, it’s glorious! It’s about 5′ tall and wide now and it’s covered in creamy white flowers, it smells wonderful as you walk up the drive. I’m going to be brave and try and prune it a little after flowering. I have to confess I’ve never pruned this one as it’s a different habit to my other roses, one flush of flowers early summer, I think it’s called a Scottish rose – rosa spinosissima .

We’ve got a bumble bee nest under our eaves, usually this wouldn’t be a problem, however we need our bargeboards and soffits replacing, the gentleman who came to give us a quote didn’t look too convinced when I said I’m not getting rid of it as they don’t stay for long anyway. From what I could see (a white bum!) they are tree bumblebees, their nests usually only survive two to three months. We need all the bumble bees we can get!

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Staying Home Quilt

Posted on May 23, 2020 by craftycreeky

I’m feeling well chuffed, I’ve just finished the top of my Staying Home quilt and it’s turned out better than I ever hoped for! This is the quilt which started with the free quilt block designs organised by Natalie of the Birdhouse.Sixteen quilters in Australia each gave a free design to help us through the lockdown, they were mainly embroidered, I made thirteen of them. Here’s some of my favourite ones…

I had decided at the start to use fabrics left over from my Coming Home quilt to make it, a scrappy quilt of sorts! I had rather over-bought for the Coming Home quilt so I was pretty sure I would have enough. In the end I just added a couple of fat quarters of a dark green and a dark blue, just to help keep the colours balanced-ish. I chose colours to embroider with which would co-ordinate with the fabric.

I followed Natalie’s idea for sashing the blocks with a 1″ coloured border followed by a 1″ neutral border with 2″ scrappy squares in between. However, I wanted more of a throw size quilt so I also made twelve little house blocks too (as I said, I had rather a lot of fabric left!!). These would then alternate with the embroidered blocks to make a 5×5 block quilt. Once I had everything sashed I had a play on my design wall, trying to space colours fairly evenly without getting too het up about it. Even at this point I wasn’t sure if the idea of the house blocks was going to work…

I then started making all the 2″ square sashing. I needed sixty lengths of five squares plus the cornerstones. I cut 2.5″ strips and sewed them together in twos and threes, cutting them thern into the required width. I could then mix and match a bit so I didn’t have too many strips the same. I used the very dark fabrics for the cornerstones, arranging them in a pattern to give a little bit of order.

As soon as I started stitching the sashing onto the blocks, I knew it was going to work, I loved the effect of the scrappy sashing…

Once I got organised, it didn’t take too long to put it all together, I love it! It measures 62″ square, just a nice size for a throw and a nice size for me to quilt at home. I just need to check if I have enough batting and then I can finish it, I even have enough fabric left for the backing!

It’s taken about six weeks to make, not bad considering a lot of that was hand embroidering the blocks. Natalie and all the designers involved deserve a huge thank you, as I said at the beginning, I’m well chuffed with it, I keep looking at it on my design wall and smiling to myself!

If you fancy stitching these blocks, have a look on facebook for the Love & Hugs from Australia SAL page, all the patterns and links are still there.

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A Couple of Pages

Posted on May 22, 2020 by craftycreeky

At our last Embroiderers Guild meeting in February, when meeting up with friends was still the norm, we started another Travelling Sketchbook project. This is where everyone has an A5 sketchbook, chooses a theme, makes the first entry, and then passes it round a group of say six people. Everyone does a little bit of embroidery based (however loosely) on the theme and sticks it in the book, so when you get your book back several months later it is filled with embroideries from your friends.

Despite the lockdown situation we’re managing to continue, using the post or a socially distanced swop! I was a bit late getting this one stitched, mainly I must admit as I wasn’t really inspired by the theme. In fact when I first got the list of themes my initial reaction, or rather the polite version was ‘Oh gosh, what does that mean!!’

“Rex quondum, rexque futurum” I was reliably informed is all about King Arthur. There was helpfully quite a bit of information include with the sketchbook, including some sketches of designs based on the round table. I decided to stitch a mandala style circle, inspired by, rather than representative of the round table.

I used dark blue felt, I would have used green which is the colour more commonly portrayed, but my green felts weren’t such a nice colour, so blue it is! I divided the circle into twelve segments, drawn lightly with a silver pen.

I started with the buttonhole wheel in the middle and then worked out, making it up as I went a long. I alternated the colours of the segments, using french knots, fly-stitch and lazy daisy stitch. I used a single thread of silver grey to separate the segments and add a sort of tracery.

I think it’s come out OK, not my most inspired piece but it fits the bill! The next two books are on leaves and under the sea, much more down my street!!

At the weekend I also finished another page for my Anthea Calandar book, this is a SAL organised by Faby Reilly, she’s releasing a pattern each month and then I’m stitching an extra page of wordplay.

This month’s flower is the cherry blossom, it’s based on one of her bigger designs which has two birds sitting on cherry blossom. It’s so pretty, and I think it mat be the first one I’ve managed to stitch without making a counting mistake!

I started stitching this on an ivory linen. I hadn’t got very far but I was already regretting using the ivory when I realised it was 36 count and not 32 count linen, so it would come out a touch smaller. If this was a one off, it wouldn’t have mattered so much, but as it was going to be made into a book I decided to bite the bullet and start again…on a beautiful shade of duck-egg blue linen. It doesn’t really show up on the photo, so you’ll just have to believe me…

It’s such a pretty design and I think the soft colour of the linen sets it off beautifully. The tied cross-stitch round the edge and the stars over the sequins are stitched in one of the DMC variegated threads, it has a nice subtle colour change.

I’ll start designing the wordplay soon, I usually stitch it near the end of the month, make sure nothing happens which I want to include in my dates. What a year to choose to stitch a diary!!

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Coming Home Quilt

Posted on May 17, 2020 by craftycreeky

It’s three weeks since I last showed you my Coming Home quilt, I was on the home stretch having just finished the applique of eighty leaves in the four corners, plus birds, dots, vines…

I had already made the pieced blocks of the next border – I had deviated from Sarah’s design at this point as I didn’t want such a big quilt, it’s big enough as it is.

I just had to stitch them on, with an extra piece to fit into the corners. The borders went on really well, they fit perfectly. My last piece of stitching was twelve little houses in the corners, bending round the curve. They were meant to have two windows in each of them, but the houses are only narrow anyway, the windows would have been maximum a quarter of an inch wide…and I couldn’t face another 24 windows!!

The idea is that once the quilting is done, the corners will be curved, following the shape of all the other borders. I’ll have to learn how to put bias binding on a quilt!…

So I’m doing a happy dance round my sewing room! I’m well chuffed at how this one has come out, I think the colours work well, it’s nice and peaceful. I’m sending this quilt off to a long-arm quilter as it’s too big to do on my sewing machine, even with my new wider one. I love the design with all the rows of houses, it’s like a little village round the green.

I started this quilt in January 2019, it’s a quilt-a-long by Sarah Fielke, she does at least one BOM a year and it’s a great way of learning how to applique, but they do tend to be quite big quilts!

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Tracy, Deb, Susan,  Nanette,  Edith, Sharon, Karrin, Gretchen, Kathi,  Bella, Daisy, Connie, Monica and Sherrie

I’ll also be linking up with Kathy’s Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.

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Staying Home Quilt

Posted on May 16, 2020 by craftycreeky

Last week I managed to finish the last of the embroidered blocks for my Staying Home quilt. This is my adaptation of the SAL organised by Natalie of the BirdHouse, she organised various quilt designers in Australia to give a free 6″ design for a quilt block during the lockdown. There were 16 blocks altogether, I’ve stitched 13 of them.

These are my latest four…

This one is by Lynette Anderson, as you can see I’ve also started sashing them. The embroideries are 6″ square, so with two rows of narrow sashing, the blocks will have a finished size of 10″.

I think this is one of my favourite blocks of the whole quilt, it’s cute without being twee. I like all the different stitches in it, such as buttonhole, pistel and fly-stitch. It’s designed by Marg Low.

The house under the rainbow is a design by Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched. I stitched this rainbow with chain-stitch, which I think worked better than the back-stitched one in the first photo.

I decided to stitch purple cosmos with an orange centre, the design is by Chandlers Cottage, it’s very delicate and pretty.

I wanted a decent sized quilt, not just a wall-hanging, so I had an idea to alternate the blocks with a house block, hence I made thirteen embroidered blocks, so with twelve house ones I’d have a quilt 5 x 5 blocks. The 10″ sashed blocks will have 2″ squares in between, giving a quilt of 62″ square, if I don’t add any more borders!!

So over the last couple of days I made twelve house blocks…

This is a free pattern by Material Girl Quilts, the actual pattern makes a block 5.5″ x 7″, so I adapted it slightly to make a 6.5″ square block. It’s a really quick and easy block too.

This is all made with fabric left over from my Coming Home quilt, I’ve still got plenty left I think to cut all the sashing and the 2.5″ squares from.

On Suday I’ll be linking up with Kathy’s Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday, please follow the link for lots of stitching inspiration.

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Visible Darning and Rag Textiles

Posted on May 15, 2020 by craftycreeky

As soon as I had finished the transfer workshop with Stitchbook Collective, I started straight away with the next box, on visible darning. I don’t think I’ve ever tried darning before, I really wasn’t sure about this one but I was pleasantly surprised how much I got into it and enjoyed it…

The first thing we had to do was make two holes to darn! Helen had provided us with a piece of knitted jersey and a cute 3″ embroidery hoop – I’ve never used one so small!

The first hole was darned traditionally with a woven mesh of thread over the hole, the second was darned with a fabric patch over the back so you could just stitch over it. Of course as this was visible darning, it was all stitched in nice bright thread!

The second sample I made was making rag textiles. Helen provides us with various scraps including a piece of Indian Chindi rug which is made from recycled sari fabric. We unwound the scraps and ironed them flat. It is pot luck what you get with these, there was a couple that appealed, I then remember some silk sari scraps I had in my stash – a whole bundle of dyed narrow strips. I cut a length off and strated to arrange them all together. It started to look like a sunset over the sea, so I added a circle of orange from some fabric in the kit and then just embroidered round and round, starting in the middle of the sun and working outwards. I used an orange and pink variegated thread. I’m quite pleased with this one. The top and bottom samples are from the chindi rug, the bottom one looks a bit like dolphins leaping through the waves!

We then had to do some patching on some light-weight denim. We made holes again! I decided to incorporate the two darning samples I’d made earlier. I used a paisley style cotton to patch under and over the holes. I just had to work out how to stitch it.

I got quite into this bit, I used the paisley shape as a basis and stitched round,joining both areas together with running stitch. This is it part way through…

Once I was happy I had enough stitching, I added three buttons in two corners and another sample was finished.

I’m sure those of you who know my usual neat and tidy embroidery style will smile at just how far from my comfort zone this is, but I’m actually enjoying It!!

Next workshop is Tyvek, another new experience to try.

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Stitchbook Collective

Posted on May 14, 2020 by craftycreeky

I got a bit behind with my Stitchbook Collective, this is the series of on-line workshops which Helen Bellingham from Untangled Threads is running. They’ve been great for trying new techniques and products…and pushing me so far out of my comfort zone I don’t know where it is!!

I had three boxes waiting to be creative with, I chose to do the Image Transfer one first. Helen described about half a dozen techniques for transferring an image onto fabric from PVA glue and Bondaweb, to sellotape and sticky back plastic. I learnt several things, like the difference between photocopied images and printed – it has to be photocopied to transfer.

In the end I tried just two of the techniques, mainly because I found one I liked and could see myself using. I also didn’t fancy the plasticky ness of some techniques, such as T-shirt heat transfer or the sticky back plastic.

First of all I tried PVA glue, it was pretty simple, in that you applied glue to the fabric and the image and stuck it down firmly, then left it to dry. After 24 hours you soaked it in water and rubbed the paper away leaving the image…only I don’t know where I went wrong but the image rubbed off too, however gentle I was!

The second technique was similar but Bondaweb was used to stick the image to the fabric. The big advantage is that it is instant, you can immediately soak it and gently rub the paper away. I used the flower image which Helen provided, transferring it to calico. It transferred beautifully, although I noted I would have been better to trim a little closer to the image.

To make it into something I either needed to cover it or cover the edges, I had a rummage in my stash and found some sort of tulle printed tape, it’s actually designed for knitting with, so it’s got holes down one side. One of the flowers echoed the shape of the printed flower, so I overlaid it, popping a scrap of blue under the hole which nicely made an extra petal!. I added a scrap of lace on either side (left over from my first wedding dress 30 years ago!!) and then just back-stitched round the outline with a variegated thread. You can still see the detail of the flower through the tulle.

I tried to be a bit arty-farty with the next attempt. On one of the samples Helen had transfered an image to a collage, I liked the effect so I stitched together some lace, silk and a vintage scrap of broderie Anglais. One of the hospice charities round here used to have a stall at the Great Yorkshire Show just selling vintage linens, they obviously had a member who knew how to care for linen as they were all beautifully pressed and laundered. They also had lengths of lace which looked like they had been cut off things which were unsaleable, I bought all sorts of short lengths of lace, this was one, it probably cost me pennies. I loved that stall and used to make a beeline for it! I digress…

I used simple running stitch to keep all the pieces together and then tried to transfer the picture of a butterfly using bondaweb. It did transfer but it was very fragile, ideally I would have rubbed more paper off but I didn’t dare. It was a good lesson really in that you do need a reasonably firm foundation of fabric, mine was too uneven, especially with the lace.

To add a bit of colour I initially tried inktense pencils, that didn’t do much as I had to be so gentle. I then had the idea of using silk paints, thinking that they don’t tend to run and spread on silk that has been previously wetted. It worked! I edged it with a silver thread to make it look like a common blue.

It’s worked and it’s pretty, but it is very fragile.

It’s a useful technique to remember and bondaweb is something I usually have in my sewing room.

I’m sharing this with Wild Daffodil for Textile Tuesday – I started writing it on Tuesday but my computers playing up with photos! Today it finally agreed to accept some off my camera!! Anyway, follow the link to see more textile links.

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