Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)

badmemory

Only make it into a cushion if you are prepared to still be looking at it in over 50 years.  I made 2 for my mother over 50 years ago.  The backing gave out a very long time ago & she wanted to keep them so I made them into one cushion, which is still sitting on my settee with absolutely no sign of wear, but it was made with the stitch across the front that you then go over which uses more thread but is more dense.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, that's very beautiful, and quite similar to the one I picked up in the charity shop recently (which I intended to make into a cushion but haven't got round to it yet 😂)

debtfreewannabe321

Lovely tapestry, nice and bright to cheer the room up for a miserable winters day. 🌺

Merlin's_Beard

Beautiful tapestry and marker of a year!

Humdinger1

Gosh you're so talented @KajiKita! Please don't hide your light under a bushel- all of it needs to be out.  Love Humdinger xx 

KajiKita

Thanks @brie, @Fortune_Smiles, @Baileys_Babe, @badmemory - it would still be around in 50 years if I frame it but less likely to have cat sick on it or claws in it! 😉
  @Cheery_Daff, sounds like you might have found some ehrman tapestries then 😊
@debtfreewannabe321, if I do frame it, it will go in my bedroom - it’s full of flowers of one kind or another already 😊
@Merlin's_Beard, that’s a nice way of looking at it - a marker of my year of recovery and resurfacing 😊
@Humdinger1, no not talented 😊 - it’s stitching by numbers - there’s some technical skill to it (I can see how I am improving at them over time (and where I still need to improve! 😉) but no creativity 😊, not my design 😊

I did go and see my very serious gardening friend yesterday. It was good to have a catch up and she was on good form. She’s nudged me to re-read the glucose goddess book as I recommended it to her and she has been using the principles and is quietly losing weight, she thinks, but is sleeping better and has more energy 😊

It will be a day of cleaning here - bathroom, kitchen sink and my bedroom hopefully, but I would like to spend an hour or so in the garden doing more metres of bed edging. 

I have the slow, and painful on the fingers, job of sewing my new tapestry to the new frame today as well, but until I do that, I can’t start the tapestry …. 🤷‍♀️.  I did finish the colours sample swatch last night so that’s good to go now 😊

KK

KajiKita

Not done very well today … either the cold is resurfacing or I am going down with another one. 

Day started okay:
- Processed Mr KK’s chicken stock from the carcass that I started yesterday (I’d forgotten that I had this to do). Did all the resulting washing up. 

- Cleaned the kitchen sink! 👏😊
- Got towels in the wash and through the TD - they need retrieving! 
- Cleared all materials, spare yarn and other ‘stuff’ for last tapestry from the living room to the office.
- Dug out thread and needles from office for attaching new tapestry to new frame - unfortunately that meant the office is now in uproar - needs a good tidy before I go back to work! I need specific storage for sewing needles I think, or get rid of some … 🤷‍♀️

- Sewed on one side of the tapestry to the frame - pricked one finger and my thumb … 🙄 Tried to start the other side but my fingers were too tired / sore. 
- Got out in the garden and did another 3 or 4m of edging … A lot slower than I’d hoped as this is an old, hardly claimed bed and there were spring bulbs just starting to grow through the edge that had to be replanted which meant clearing clumps of oregano bases to make space for them (oregano is one of this garden’s ‘weeds’). I may also have left a huge clump of primula in the middle of the new, clean edge <ahem 😉>  as I just couldn’t bring myself to dig it up and move it when it is growing so well atm - I will move it once it’s finished flowering 😊
- Cut the old leaves off the hellebore in that bed that is just starting to throw up flower shoots 😊

Came in for lunch and realised that I didn’t feel too good. All headachey. Had lunch, fell asleep on the sofa and took myself off to bed for an hour or so - I am now very gloopy and I’m sneezing again … sigh … 
Thankfully it’s an easy dinner tonight - bakers and goulash for Mr KK and veggie bolognese for me. Might add some green beans for a bit of colour. 

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Sounds like you did a lot of things!
Hope the cold symptoms lessen with a good night's kip 

KajiKita

Thanks @PennysIntoPounds, didn’t sleep that well as I slept too much yesterday afternoon but don’t feel too bad today. I’m going to pace myself today and do things but rest a lot as well. 

Currently re-reading the second part of the glucose revolution. Didn’t have quite what I needed in for breakfast but have decluttered a leftover mozzarella ball and a handful of baby tomatoes along with half a shallot that was in the bottom drawer of the fridge and a vinaigrette dressing. Finished off with a few seeded oatcakes with mushroom pate on them - didn’t want the whole packet of oat cakes 😊👏

Out shortly to do a small food shop - Mr KK needs fresher milk and I want large tomatoes to have with scrambled eggs for tomorrow’s breakfast 😊 

Then I will attempt what cleaning I can (before chemical fumes become too much) and finishing the sewing on of the tapestry to the frame! 

KK

KajiKita

I had forgotten that I had a garden voucher from my parents for Christmas so scooped that up and took it with me before leaving this morning …
Found various nice planted up and growing bulbs in the local garden centre (narcissus tete a tete, iris siberica, a pretty little blue thing I forget the name of, ipo…-something 🤔), cyclamen hederifolium and a lovely white hellebore 😊 Total cost: £54.37, voucher was £50 and I paid for the rest with cash so my NSD is unblemished 🤩 I have already got them all in the ground to bolster the new beds between the house and mower garage just nicely ❤️

Finally got my bocking 14 comfrey plants in the ground as well - two by the compost heap to absorb any run off and one under the apple trees 😊

It is perishingly cold out there! 🥶 Half an hour or so was enough! 😳😂 I forgot to put my hat on so my ears now feel radioactive ☢️ as they are warming up again!! 😂😂😂

Tapestry is now fully on the frame and I have started stitching. 😊 This also means I need to tidy the office up after the churn that happened when I was looking for needles and thread etc. 

Right! I am going to brave the cleaning! I am, I tell you ….! 💪😉

KK