Sofa, so good...

Thank you to everyone who has kept a check on me the last couple of weeks since London.  There's no getting away from it, it really did wipe me out completely.  Each time I though I was feeling back to normal I'd have an afternoon or evening of doing stuff, then need a whole day to recover.  I've been thru almost as many 24hr bugs as days where I ventured out of the house...  And lets not speak of the days I've lost "post housework"...  I make no secret of my hoover hatred...
Anyway.  I'm still only getting wee bits done at a time, in between a lot of being stuck on the sofa (not quite as depressing as staying in bed).  However, not posting anything for so long, I've managed to build up some nice pictures to finally fill a post with so here goes!

If we go back to London and that event you're all sick to death of hearing about ;-) I was only there for the Saturday.  I had English Paper Piecing class in the morning and Embroidery in the afternoon.  After the excitement and hilarity of Friday, I was already knackered on Saturday morning...  oops.  So, English Paper Piecing class I only managed to cut out my paper shapes and baste about 4 of them...  but it gave me something nice to do between sofa naps back home, so here is what I should have done in class...

The afternoons Embroidery class, the one I'd been looking forward to most of all, the one so many of my new friends were all doing, the one taught by Aneela Hooey, for me looked like this.

Yeah.  That is me.  (Yep, that's as much of me as you will EVER see on this blog!!!)  Yep.  Bit gutted about that, but there you go.  That's fairly normal for me.  Since I didn't get to show off use it in class, here are some gratuitous photos of the embroidery kit that I made myself especially to use in class, that I missed.  (still bit gutted bout it...)

There are a couple of things I'd tweak if I make another, but it works, its useful, and that's fine for now.  Here is a photo of it at my outdoor embroidery station.  See those dead branches?  A friend stuck them in a plant pot for me and on a (very very rare) day when its not windy and its not cold and its not raining (okay so its happened twice, for an hour or two, this year...) I sit there and my thread and my scissors and stuff all dangles off the branches!  But the roll is a bit cooler and its indoor suitability means it gets WAY more use...  

Machine binding clearly is NOT my thing....

And finally, these are a bit of a teaser as to things to come in future blog posts.  Or in other words, I am doing stuff it just takes me for-ev-er.