2024 Stash & Grab Virtual Pub

[Serinde]

Tidying up for the Easter tea party. *sweep sweep* All the painted eggs are hanging from pussy willow branches in honour of Lyudmila. The shelves are stocked, and the flowers have all been placed in readiness.

[Mabel Figworthy]

What a lovely idea! (Depending on whether Lyudmila is Orthodox, however, she may not celebrate Easter until May...) I've brought lots of greenery and pebbles and twigs if anyone would like to make an Easter garden.

[Serinde]

Lovely! Can I offer moss? (Can you tell I've been in the gardens...)

Yes, the Julian calendar does make for difficulties. But perhaps we can have two celebrations?

[Mabel Figworthy]

You can never have too many celebrations!

Moss is very welcome. I rather like it in our own garden, but DH has the English preference for a proper lawn. My thinking is that as long as it's green and doesn't require looking after, I'll have it

[richardandtracy]

Starting the roast dinner in a couple of hours. Pork & chicken with all the trimmings. MIL is coming round. Beware of cats drawn by tasty smells at your feet.

Regards,

Richard.

[Serinde]

Leg of lamb, here. Ditto with trimmings. No cats to trip me up, though.

[Mabel Figworthy]

OK, it's not the World Domination that DH keeps urging on Mabel, but Stitch magazine have asked if I'd like to be their Meet the Artist profile feature for the edition with Bunny Beware in it. I'm chuffed to bits - beverages-with-snack-of-choice all round!

[Serinde]

Congratulations!

[Serinde]

Thought I'd come in a dust, polish some glasses, tidy up the broken crockery destress suite.

It's been very quiet on the forum lately. How's everyone doing? I'm now set up to start a small weaving for my summer course and then there's the garden. But I'm still beavering away at my daily stitch (though I'm one day behind ). Once through next week, which seems to have an awful lot packed into it), everything calms down. Whew.

I'll sit here with my tea and watch the unicorn foals. What's everyone else doing?

[Mabel Figworthy]

Not as much as I'd like to - partly for very pleasant reasons like outings and a cousin visiting from the Netherlands, partly work and other commitments, but it means I have done no Certificate homework at all, and FoF is sadly neglected. Also, my eye problems are getting worse, which is worrying.

Still, I also have lots of stitchy plans - I have just proofread an article for Stitch magazine, and the programme for the Knitting & Stitching Show (2 workshops) as well as submitting a course proposal for our local adult education centre (*cough* for which I have not actually finished designing the projects...), plus Mr Badger and Henry the Harmless Lion.

And then there are the grandchildren, including granddaughter who will be 1 tomorrow - can she come and play with the unicorns for her birthday party?

Here she is enjoying bubbles at Rhythm Time which I take her to every other week:

[Steam.Jo]

It's been very quiet on the forum lately. How's everyone doing?

What's everyone else doing?

I try to limit my stitch posting to once a week because no one else seems to be cross stitching anything. We seem to have lost Wendy when the forum crashed, I saw Nicola commented on a post the other day but no stitching updates and of course it is ages since we heard from Lyudmilla or Sally.

I've side tracked onto quilting or rather patchwork (as it is difficult to quilt on a standard sewing machine). My aim had been to join a local quilting group but it seems they are lacking numbers so are not meeting this month.

And yes it is gardening season: just about to have the first new potatoes of the year with my dinner I had hoped to start regularly visiting RHS Wisley this year but with the M25 junction by its entrance being worked on it has rather put me off.

Jo