Some Christmas sewing

I saw just enough of somebody's Handmade Christmas to see them create a stitch and flip stocking before I turned it off thinking "I can do better (and cheaper)" and went off to my fabric compost in its nice colour sorted bags and came up with these babies just in time to be filled for Christmas. One for me and one for him. Can you guess which one is mine?

Brrrrr! Birthday Bear

Another Birthday and another wonderful outfit for my Birthday Bear.  Just in time for the frosty weather.

Crisis of conscience

I have next Friday booked off from work.  Do I go to my Contemporary Textile Workshop, the last session of which I did not enjoy and which I have done zero work for.  Or stay home and get stuck in with my new (early-but I'm not complaining) birthday books?

Peacocks travel best in pairs

Where Flowers grow there is hope

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

This is based on one of the photos I have snapped on one of my many cycling adventures. Again this is derived from a well known phrase which is derived from the Tennyson poem In Memoriam:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

This summer had a loss and when I was feeling particularly sorry for myself I would think the situation was hopeless and that it had all been for nothing. This was not the case and I know that at least I had had a chance and that it can happen again. Referring back to the previous work Life is Risky - it is better to try than not to try at all.

Proverbially English II

Many hands make light work.


All good things come to an end.