Hello Everybody
It’s Summer and the sun is shining. Hooray!
I’ve been busy helping Husband to tidy and cut the hedges making sure we do not disturb the birds nesting. We have already had one set of robins fledged – there were three youngsters, they have bred again and are now feeding another two babies and the blackbirds had two fledglings and are now feeding their second brood. It’s like a nursery or a relay race as they dart back and forth from the food bowl when we put it out.
Well onto the sewing, I have been busy doing little bits of each of my projects on the go and have done quite a lot to Sophia Loren cross-stitch.


Secondly I have started on the Redwork Design by Mandy Shaw of Dandelion Designs. I have cut out all the pieced patterned fabric and some of the calico squares, as well as starting the first redwork stitched Month. I have rearranged the images (as suggested by Mandy) to suit my feelings with reference to the baskets. So here is the first one …..



This is January, February and March pieced blocks – all make up to 12″ finished blocks. And you can see that I placed one block wrongly (bottom right) OOPS (good job it is not sewn together).
I have ploughed through the books I mentioned back in May and have purchased some new books to read.

All read with great satisfaction.
New books are
My Heart Went Walking by Sally Hannan. (An Irish tale of love, loss and redemption.
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis (A pair of Mysterious Books, A Doomed Romance. The Echoes of a Love that never died.
The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright by Beth Miller (An absolutely unputdownable feel-good novel about love, loss and taking chances.)
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (A follow on from The Magpie Murders.)
Did anyone watch The Magpie Murders on BBC1.??
Do not know any of these authors – just chancing on a good read!!
Bye for now
Thanks for stopping by.
Daisy