Addiction ?
Probably,
but so much fun to make !
March started with hospital time.
For me with a new lens in a cataract operation :
very clear sight now but trouble with glasses !
(though now I have one pair with a zero glass on the left side)
Then, last Monday, came more serious hospital time for man :
carcinoma surgery !
Bad for him and a long day for me in the waiting room,
but I took some tiny stitch work with me.
Mirjam
made these amazing tiny embroidered "pockets".
I know now how to make them
and took some felt, threads and scissors with me
(apart from a book, a puzzle book and more stitching)
Whether "winter" is also over,
we have yet to see
. . . . .
The tiny bit of icing sugar this morning
can hardly be called SNOW !
(and we had LOTS of sunshine later)
Snow and ice is more for these "critters"
Ages ago I bought a book about printing
with Medium Gel Matte
(normally used in painting with acrylic paint)
but never really used it in my work.
Stich Club had another workshop with
Cas Holmes
and there this method was used.
So a good reason to have another go
at Medium or even white acrylic paint.
A month passed in a blur :
reading
stitching
going to the shops
and looking after Man
. . .
But for that last bit I can say that things are improving !
Though slowly, things Man is getting better !
Though another workshop (by Cas Holmes)
is already on its way,
I'm still stitching on the big circle
for April Sproule's workshop.
This year hasn't begun quite well for Man : pneumonia is a nasty business !
Two courses of penicillin were needed to make a start in healing
Ever so slowly he is getting better now
(with a setback on some days)
Again we see what a precious thing
good health is !!!
After all the felting last month
it was time to pick up stitching again :
so many wonderful ideas in STITCH CLUB !
Stitching with so much texture is really fun !
(it seems that January 25 is "St. Dwynwens day in Wales :
the equivalent of Valentine's day :-) !)