Sorry it's been so long between posts again. We were away on holiday last week & I had hoped to post before we went but the Blogger downtime meant that it wasn't to be.

We went up to the Lake District for a week and had a great time. I shall be back with more about it in another post but the highlight for me was to spend a couple of days at Fobbles taking a class, Fruits of the Vine Huswif with Ellen Chester of With My Needle. My photo's from the class weren't any good as I forgot to take a spare battery for the big camera and my phone pictures turned out all blurry but there are plenty on Ellen's blog here and here.

Finally I'd like to say a big thank you to Becky and Julie of In the Company of Friends. They offered a give away on their blog and I was one of the luck winners of the guide to the exhibit of Middle Tennessee Sampler.

A New Start

With the two bank holiday weekends we've just had here I've managed to get a fair bit of stitching in. So with out further ado here is where I got up to on Sunflower Bellpull at the end of it's rotation slot.

And the whole piece:

The Drawn Thread - Sunflower Bellpull, 2000
stitched using the recommended threads and linen

The new start in the title is one I've been looking forward to starting since the beginning of the year. It's Tend thy Sheep by Merry Cox and is this years online class through the Shining Needle Society. The class ran through January to March but other commitments prevented me from starting it then. In this rotation slot I've managed to get about halfway round the box band.

From Merry's Heart - Tend thy Sheep, 1998
stitched using the kit materials