Well as promised I have a stitchy update post,my first weeks progress on The Bramble and The Rose.

The last stitching session I added in the nosegay to see how it would work for the flowers and all seems good. So far so good with the colours, even though I keep referring to the nosegays as ink and not purple. Really it is the lightest two in the spool that makes me think of it as a pink (though yes in all honesty it is more lavender than pink).

That’s all the stitchy pictures I have for now though, I am waiting until the half way mark I think on this page for St Nick before posting another update…hopefully it will not be too long but working all those browns and detail stitches can be a battle some days. I am thinking interspersing stitching it with Sea Beacon which is just solid areas of black again at the moment may make me feel like I am making progress on something instead of just stalling. Maybe I will try to get a single length of black into sea beacon each night before tackling St Nick… we shall see.

Had a lovely weekend catching up with Nancy and Sharon again, plotting starts and threads and all the usual stuffs, looking forward to the end of July when we all plan to go spend money we shouldn’t at the craft and quilt fair

I have more baking / cooking posts too and believe it or not not everything I made this week was cake! I’ll probably load them up over the next few days. This week is looking as though it will be a busy one, including a meeting with a mortgage broker to discuss grown up things like buying a house *boggle*