Wednesday

Sewing Day

My sewing these days consists of doing needlepoint.

Thank heaven that I'm slow for I have way too many

cushions now

If I could churn out one a week or even one a month

think what a 40+ year supply would consist of!

I started in my early married years,

and then along came Daughter Sarah

and needlepointing got put away.

I discovered it again when we sailed for England

a few years back.

I finished that piece while we were in England,

bought another canvass over there to do on the way home,

and I've had a needlepoint project ever since.

And I am very conscious not to get a supply of canvasses.

Preferring to be almost finished with one

before I get another.

It keeps those canvasses from piling up!

And last Christmas, I started a tradition

for Grandgirl Lucy --

a needlepoint ornament as a Christmas gift.

I already bought the 2014 canvass

(last year I waited until December!)

This piece Husband Jim gave me as a Christmas gift,

I thought it was sweet that he picked it out

and gifted it to me for Christmas.

It's coming along, it's coming along!