WIPW

We are waiting for this cyclone to hit in about 12 hours from now.   Rather unnerving.  I still have the last of the pot plant to move under the house and some furniture to remove from the verandahs.  We are now isolated and thank goodness for my stitching.  It takes your mind off what might be ahead.  I'm not sure if I am glad that I know what is coming or if ignorance would be bliss?

I have the design for my Sonnet Project for this month, but first I have to rediscover how to stitch it.  To this end I am stitching a cover for my journal in which I keep my drawings and ideas.  I have pulled out that old piece that I finished off to be the centre of the front cover.  There was serious problems where the moths had got into the wool but I unpulled all the problem areas and restitched them.  Not with the original colours,  I'd forgotten what they were, but it will do the job.

I will insert this into my practise canvas.  Oh, how the memories come back.  The difference between tent stitch and continental tent stitch.  Back then it had to be tent stitch because continental tent stitch took twice the amount of thread and I just didn't have the money even though continental tent stitch was a better option.

I dug out my old stitching frame that I had carefully stored and found I was missing one wing nut.  Not bad seeing it has been packed away since the 1970's!  I have drawn the pattern onto the canvas and then laced this in place ready to be stitched but first I have to work out what stitches I will use!  That's the role of the practise canvas.  A bit more needs to be done there but I have made a start only the find I underestimated the thread needed, by one line.

And in my spare time I am knitting flowers and leaves for the tea cosies which are back on the agenda.  They will go back to the Op shop to be sold to raise money for organisations on the island.  The friends I was knitting them for have decided we will no longer give each other presents at Xmas.

I will probably be my last post for a while  but I intend to keep stitching.

Comments

[Rachel]

I think I'd prefer to know in time to prepare, but it does mean a certain amount of sitting and waiting..

[Carolyn Foley]

The winds have increased enough that you have to stay inside, which is a pain with a dog but he would be blown away. You can never tell with cyclones you just have to watch and take evasive action if you can.