Back to earth

It has taken me a week or so to come back down to earth after the Sue Spargo workshop last week.  Although I had planned to start working on my Farmers Wife quilt on Saturday, I felt it was better for me to continue on with some of the work I had started at the workshop otherwise it would all be lost in the dark recesses of my mind.

 Sue has a very relaxed style of teaching and gives you the freedom to experiment with the stitches, perfection is not required in fact a little wonkiness gives your work the hand made look, after all if you wanted perfection you might as well do the embroidery on your machine.

I was quite envious of the people who were doing the Circles sampler, mainly because the circles were half the size of the leaves, which meant they didn't take very long to stitch around unlike the leaves which seemed to take ages :(

sometimes it was difficult to know when to stop adding embellishments

I have also made a start on my Red Clover wall hanging, still have a bit more to go on the bird before I am happy with it, I'm finding that it is nice to do this while the Olympics are on.