I had a day off work today, so after a morning of chores I got to spend a little time sewing. I made this needlepoint piece up into a cushion cover, and it's just waiting to get a cushion pad stuffed inside it now. It's an Easter design of bunnies and Easter eggs, so I should've got my act together earlier in the year! I deliberately used quite a restricted palette of colours as I was thinking about creating the design for a kit or a magazine pattern. Not that I've seen many needlepoint magazines. Craft magazines tend to be about cross stitch or card making.
I was rather pleased with these bunnies. They're nicely plump! If I was making another cushion in this design I'd use a brighter pink as the background one is too dusty a shade.
Apart from crafty stuff I read a little more of Amy Tan's 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' which I'm still enjoying, and had a couple of hours on the allotment where - holy moly! - what only a day ago appeared to be a courgette has suddenly grown into a huge marrow. You can't turn for back on a veggie patch for 5 minutes, can you?
Now ... what am I going to cook with you, Mr Marrow?
While at the allotment I also collected up some poppy heads, and shook their seeds out all over the gravel 'garden' at the front of my flat. Hopefully next year the arid gravel will be transformed into a sea of elegant poppies. It's amazing how many seeds there are in one of these poppy heads. No wonder they're so good at self seeding.
Your needlepoint is lovely, it's so Great to be visiting your blog!
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Sumea
Posted by: sumea | July 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM