Here's my desk on Monday with thanks to our
Julia for mentioning the WI article on Slow Stitching where I found this delightful little
Patchwork Heart.
Of course I just HAD to make one. How cute is that? It's a gift for friend who has just had an operation.
My re-found joy of stitching can mainly be down to the fact that my fingers/hands don't go numb at the slightest thing anymore thanks to my Carpal Tunnel Operations.
It's 6 months since my left one was done and it's more or less back to normal (Can't really put my weight on it fully yet though but getting there).
The rest of the week has been sewing too. First I finished off the Stitcher's Pocket Companion. I blogged it
here in detail.
Kept opening it and closing it as it made me so happy.
After this was a further Zen project of a Treasure Pouch. I had go at the worm stitch again which I'd learnt at the last Zen.
It started as a 7" square of fabric and ended up being a 2 1/2" square pouch with 7 pockets.
And finally the Zen Living Line which will probably be a forever project to pick up as and when I need to ponder.
It was demonstrated as lines and dots. Mine did start this way but soon I was adding all the flower colours in my garden.
I have put together all the things I need to stitch wherever I am in the bag I got for Mother's Day at church.
And yes I even had to embroider the flowers on the bag! It would have been rude not to. I guess if anything stays still too long I'll just embroider it!
I was using up just thread scraps but needed to replenish the colours after all the stitching!
I made a little needle cushion which is attached to a hairspray top with an old hair band for all the thread ends which I save for journaling pages.
This is where it's up to Tuesday evening.
