"Are you Sitting Comfortably?"

.....Then we'll begin...as they used to say in my youth whilst sitting listening to the radio and Listen With Mother on the BBC.

I shall be doing rather a lot of sitting and lying down shortly after my op. And listening. I'm vowed to listen to lots of soothing cd's that I haven't opened in a long while. While I'm doing this, I shall
need a project that I might, as they say, get my teeth into. Not literally, of course.....food will probably be the last thing on my mind. On the other hand occupying myself will be of paramount consideration.

My friends tell me they will keep me company. Good. But sometimes one needs just to sit quietly occupying one's hands. I don't do television - we haven't had one since the early 80's.....and can well live without one.

So I got out my Tapestry Stamps ( and got very excited about my new sets - below! ) and created a pattern, on some calico, starting in the middle of a circle with a dandelion bloom.

I branched out and out....and out, using as many stamps as I could realistically get into a design - for the moment ;) It may grow even bigger - depends how it goes.

I am going to embroider all the leaves and flowers I have stamped. I used the stamps that would be the easiest to transfer to stitches, though I might add a few more later which are not so easy....just to see.
I've oodles of embroidery threads and can send my perfect and willing husband out for any I run out of. I'm so organised! :)

I do hope that with handling the design will stay put, but if not I'll have to re-stamp but I'll do a bit at a time. I used a brown ink which I thought would blend into most of the colours I'm going to use in the work.

So now, all there is to do is begin in the middle and work outwards. I shall start it before I get to hospital, that way, it won't look as if I don't know what I'm doing. ;)

I'll keep you posted.
But only if you'll sit quietly like good children. :)

< Sigh> Those were the days!

The Whole Duty Of Children

"A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,

And behave mannerly at table;

At least as far as he is able."

-Robert Louis Stevenson