August Furtle

Soooooo what has happened in August? Well it has been a good month for stitching. I cant believe i am almost finished this lovely Michael Powell cottage cross stitch. It was a gift from my lovely chum Jo, I love Michael Powell designs so much and he is just such a lovely man as well as great designer.

This is a year long mystery SAL from linen and threads, a freebie too! 

I was quite pleased with the colours I chose for August, I cant believe there are only 4 more months to go, its been such a lovely mindful project.

So this happened!😳 I returned to work! Well its only one day a week just now and not every week, I wasnt sure how I would feel but it does feel good. A bit of return to normality.
 

I had a few finishes, and I loved this one, a really good quick finish. The Kels quilt from Jenny Haynes, Pappersaxsten. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, this will be the first of my quilts for Alice Caroline SOS project 2021.

Keeping on going with the temperature spider web embroidery, this was the page for July, temperatures really hotting up which is nice. 

This is an interim quilt! I want to make a quilt for my impending great nephew but its taking longer so as great nephew is due (checks notes) in a few days!!! I thought i should make an interim quilt, the theme of the nursery is safari, hence the funky cheetah print and lions and tigers!

The second quilt for Alice Caroline will be a love and kisses quilt, pattern from Jenni Smith, I am trying to use up scraps just now but with Loden for the background. The middle block was a tester for the transatlantic love and kissed quilt which i was delighted to take part in, so that is why the background is slightly different.

I was tagged on this on Twitter

Dr Michelle Perryman-Fox 

@Symbolic_Life

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And just like that.. first day at the office with

@QMU_OT

that patchwork though #OT

That was my quilt! I gifted that to the OT dept at my last university over 5 years ago! This was a new lecturer seeing it for the first time 🥰 how wonderful and it just made my day, so I tweeted back that I had since made another one which now kept me company in my home office 😊

And that’s it for August, its been a hard month in a few ways but there is hope on the horizon and I do feel we are heading in the right direction in general, crafting has been a godsend during the pandemic and will continue to be so going forward.

My garden

 One thing we have really appreciated in the pandemic is our garden, before we never paid it much attention, we were always too busy doing other stuff. During lockdown especially the garden has been a godsend. These beautiful roses were a wedding present from one of my bridesmaids, they are so lovely and really brighten up the garden. We do have a bunny visitor who has been nibbling some of our plants but she is cute and we forgive her!

Holiday July 2021

Well still living in very strange times, it feels like we are slowly, hesitantly moving forwards but still a lot to play for in this whole global pandemic situation. So for our main two week break we decided to stay at home, I did get a trip up north to see folks which was nice. Scoobs got away up into the hills so it was all good. 

We were determined to walk to our local cafe - Canada Wood and have a nice boozy lunch, we looked up the weather and picked what looked to be the most promising day. All was well on the walk up, we passed by our local farm which always has a nice display of flowers.

I checked in on my fence posts

We rocked up to Canada wood and I felt I looked uber cool in my shades 😂

 

and it started to rain 😂

did we let this deter us???

did we heck as like!!!

ach it was good fun and something we must do again, it was five miles each way so I was exhausted when I got home, nothing at all to do with the three glasses of wine I consumed 😂

I also went for a walk round one of the parts of the Antonine wall we have near us, such a lovely bit to walk around.

I may have partaken of a glass or two of wine 

Poor Lloyd the Llama got knocked over by some binding.

Dignity restored!!!

I also enjoyed some gin as well as wine!

oh yes and i finished the first of the floral big cats! Panther!

Just some lovely cows

Autumn is on its way

my donkey chums have had a hair cut!

We went to Flanders Moss which was small  but very interesting

And the garden was in full bloom!

 And we saw a wee toad on the road!

All in all a very good holiday, and perhaps my last two week break 😉