BFF SAL 24 brown

one of this missing browns.

Oddly my BFF and I were working on the same shade, the symbol sounding like a yoga pose, the downward triangle.

The initial stitches went in as fillers between previous stitches, that was nice. Then they moved into areas that did not have that framework. That was a little bit more work. There are still stitches to go in that shade but my eyes were tired of them before our designated time was up. 

There were two stitches in "sideways lollypop" which symbol  lead to the earworm of the Oh lollypop lolly lolly pop song.

Being a good friend I shared!

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Little legs or high sofa

 whichever it is I find that I need a little foot stool to be comfortable.  Finding one the right hight was proving difficult so many years ago my father made one for me. From a wooden cutlery tray,  four knobs a bit of wood, foam, hinges and some brown velvet.

Perfect.

After many years of use reupholstering was required.

A stapler gun later (a pink one as it was £1 cheaper in that shade than it was in either green or grey) and a new cover was in place.

I keep my seed beads in here, well and random other stuff like tassels. It rather needs a sort out.

But for the moment I am happy to have my foot stool back.

Sunday Stitchings 17.05.2026

 A little more grey and a little bit closer to getting back to the brown and towards finishing the first kitten.

I am wondering if a local cat shelter might like this?  It is quite large and not my style for my home.  My brother and his wife whilst liking cats have rapidly reducing wall space so I think on this occasion its not "them" enough to gift.

So either as a fundraiser or perhaps I could add the name of the place. I might investigate further and ask when closer to a finish.

BFF RAL May 2026

 as my BFF was out and about for work again this week.

I could have used an ongoing project for my RAL but instead I decided to start a little kit.

At the point I stopped I had just spotted a mistake so now I need to figure out fixing it. It is just a stitch out but that can be enough on a small pattern.

    

It came with the needle but I think I might need to swap to something a bit pointier as there are a lot of  fractional stitches and the material is rather stiff.

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Sunday Stitchings 10.05.2026

 A very light grey was the thread choice for todays stitchings.

Adding to the black and white kitten. Such a pale grey that it was hard to tell the difference from the white whilst sewing. However, it does feel like it has filled things in a tad.

I would note that this kit notes the thread contained in it is DMC. It came pre-carded with each thread numbered on the card 1 thought to 25. The pattern has symbols, the key notes the number on the card relating to that symbol and provides a description of the colour, black, white, light grey ect in  several languages. What it does not do is provide the DMC number for the thread.

I am going to assume this is to stop the pattern being passed on and sewn more than once. Well unless you are very good at colour matching or, or you consider there are no factional stitches and no backstitch and so ? So it would lend itself to being stitched one over one on a very small count? And there looks likely to be sufficient left over to manage that. The thing is cute as they are the kittens are I think for me a once and done stitch.  Most of the time that is true of patterns even when I enjoy them a lot and think to myself that I might do them again to date repeats have only occurred for birth sampler patterns. It was a thought though. 

Oh and a Forestella link as I am becoming rather fond of this particular song.

BFF SAL 24 Not Brown

 that was the essence of my colour choice for this evenings session.  The result two shades of pink and a touch of green.

I now have jump off points for the top two flowers.  This evenings chatting was a little odd as I was sure there was something I was going to say to my BFF, something to tell that could wait for our face to face chat, not important enough to need immediate telling via Messenger, and I could not recall what it was at all.

Normally we would address this by listing off  the potential topics, was it work, or crafts, or food or family. Might it be Church or shopping? And at some point we would hit on something to jog my memory. Tonight, nope still no idea what it was.

Click HERE  to pop over to my BFF's blog and her evenings stitching.

Ah well, at some point it will come back to me I guess.

Oh and next week we anticipate a RAL.

Sunday Stitchings 3rd May 2026 +

 as I think that I misses posting the last progress picture at all.

Some grey some white and this is where I am upto.

There is less to go than has already been stitched but reaching that point where time slows and progress does as well. 

Here is a link to one of the tracks on Forestella's new album. I did not immediately recognise the  piece, probably because I have only watched the film it comes from once.  Do you know it? 

Oh and a little investigation and the lyrics are a constructed language.  If you are new to my blog and to Forestella then there are other links to you tube content for the group on my blog, just pick the Forestells links, or do a you tube search there will be lots to see and hear.

BF SAL 24 pink and

 a touch of light brown.

And a relaxing chat.

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A little trip

 to the Charity Shop.  It came after taking my mother for Covid Jab and that new one, then whilst we were there a quick visit to the Stray Aid charity shop. It is large and most of the area is navigable in a wheelchair,

I spent £4.50 on the items as shown below.

The cover kit  bottom right is missing the pattern I will need to try and figure it out from the picture.  The frame is Laura Ashley. Tatty Teddy came with the storage box, the threads material and needle (which is threaded and the piece has been started. And the DMC pattern, I might have left that but my mother noted she liked it.

There are projects stacking up so when they will get done I am not sure but for a bit of retail therapy it was a reasonable amount of expenditure. 

Varigated thread

 always looks so pretty, always tempts me and yet often I have no idea what to do with it, there was a time that the result would be embroidered knots.

However, at the time I bought the knot work tree  I also bought a sampler. The pattern is set for completion in a single colour.

I thought that it might fit in the top of my new box.  The design is 300 by 300. An although the box is not exactly square it feels right.

So I am stitching  one over one on linen. Starting in the left bottom corner.