New Starts, Knitting, 18 Birthday Candles and more

 Hello friends,

well, I can't get this photo the right way up but this is a recent start on Mother's Day last Sunday. Birds and Bees Sewing Roll by Stacy Nash. I actually had another piece of linen chosen for this project but when the Fox & Rabbit linens I'd bought for my May Fabric club arrived, I thought this would be perfect. 36 count Prehistoric linen with the recommended Weeks Dye Works threads.

The other linen fat quarter I'd bought is a newly released colour by Fox & Rabbit, Tuscan Path.

Recently I went into a shop in town that has a small selection of yarns and knitting accessories and found this pretty sock yarn.  My other rainbow socks have been relegated to "file 13" for now, ha ha. 

These have been my lunch break project lately.

Another new project underway has been one of Teresa Kogut's Santas, lots of stitches in this design. I love the DMC red colour, DMC 22.

Our darling Hannah May is now 18, wow, where have the years gone?  

We celebrated with takeaways, an ice cream cake and treats as Hannah had been late at school, involved in the dress rehearsals for their latest production, in the hair and make up team. 

It was Mother's day here last Sunday and for a treat on Saturday night, we went out with friends to a restaurant we'd not been to before. It was delicious and I enjoyed a crispy salmon and pork belly salad for my main followed by sticky date pudding for dessert, so divine!

On Sunday afternoon Hannah and I watched the school production, Alice in Wonderland.  Wow, there are some incredibly talented young adults at our local high school and I really enjoyed watching several of Hannah's good friends taking to the stage.  

I'll finish today with some recent photos of the goodest boy ever, Mr Diesel.  We've had to put our river walks on hold for a week or so as he's had a sore paw but we'll be back walking our limestone tracks hopefully this coming weekend. 

See you soon x