a surprising start

Sometimes 

a surprise 

can take your breath away

...

this one did !

Today was the first time I went out again 

(with daughter and two kids to Rotterdam)

after almost a month of being housebound

due to my silly stumble down the stairs.

After visiting the first shop,

we walked slowly to our biggest book store

where I had coffee and a bagel

while the others did some more shopping.

Then, when I came home

I found this totally unexpected packet

.....

from 

AUSTRALIA  !

In it was "a belated Christmas present" :

the most gorgeously coloured 

hand deyed yarn 

FIRE  !

I'll be honest :

my heart skipped a beat, and it brought tears to my eyes

What a gorgeous present

from someone that lives literally 

on the other side of the earth !

(Ha, I remember,
 when I was in primary school,
a-a-a-a-ges ago,
our teacher told us, that, 
if we would travel down the earth,
like in an elevator,
right through the hot center, 
we would come up 
(with our feet first) 
in Australia !)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH,  ANNE !!!

(what special and beautiful things can come from Blog-land .....   ;-)  !)

... and the next

There were a lot of tiny stitches done

these last few days

...

In fact it was going so smoothly 

I was done before I knew it

Here only the left hand upper corner and the right hand lower corner ...

(with a bit of magic thread showing)

and signed at the back ...

(I'll show the whole picture when I know it arrived safely

it should be a bit of a surprise)

... and on to the next !

weaving, pinning and basting down the tiny parts

It may seem like an automatism, but it isn't

(it's the flow)