And here’s my Iggy, so you can see how great the tapestry is!
Tag: tapestry
stitching
I’ve done nearly three quarters of my Kaffe Fassett aubergine tapestry, and so have been looking out for the next one on eBay. I love those vegetable tapestries, but I thought they were discontinued. I was bidding for a cauliflower on Ebay which ended yesterday, but it went for just £1 more than my maximum bid!
I went to Erhman’s site this morning, because they often do nice kits in their sale, and have picked up the above for £29.95; anyone who does tapestry will know that this is a damn good price for a nice kit, and besides … it’s remarkably like Iggy, which can only be a good thing.
Erhman’s database must be a tad broken, because if you search for Kaffe Fassett’s tapestries, there are no vegetables, but the generic cushion category lists both the cauliflower and the cabbage! Next on my list after the Igpuss, then 🙂
weekend 2/3 October 2010
Amazing – it wasn’t raining on Saturday! So I did some of the ironing mountain, and then cycled into town to return something to Primark, and buy some t-shirts for Pete. 15 minutes in one queue, and 10 in the other. sigh. Then I went to Wilkinsons and bought an ironing board cover and a new peg bag, as ours is disintegrating. It’s a rock and roll lifestyle, and no mistake.
We’re 1.5 miles from town, but I took the long way in, and a longer way back, and my trip was almost 8 miles. Pete had gone elsewhere for the afternoon, and returned home with a backpack full of fruit and veg, including rhubarb. So I perpetrated a rhubarb crumble, which we had after eating dhal and chapatti, which he constructed. Slumped in front of Strictly and X-Factor after that.
On Sunday, we were planning to cycle over to Beverley to the Apple Fest, which was touted as having a Bird of Prey display amongst other things. As the morning progressed, it was clear that bikes were out unless they were amphibious, and as it progressed further, we realised that the whole plan was out – it just got wetter and wetter out there.
So instead, I finished the ironing (what a lot there was), made the filling and pastry for a chicken pie for supper, turned the heating on (oh the luxury of having working heating!) and decided to watch a movie for the afternoon.
We decided on Shawshank Redemption, which is currently ranked #2 on IMDB, and is just a perfect, perfect film. Before we started it, I dug out my Kaffe Fassett tapestry, which I have had for ages and hardly started. And after that, I dug out my magnifying daylight lamp, as I couldn’t actually see to sew. The tapestry is an aubergine. I did a Fassett cauliflower a few years ago, but I cannot find the damn thing – so annoying.
Then Pete assembled the pie, which we ate with a heap of broccoli, Channel 4’s Art programme (undecided), X-Factor (fixed), Downton Abbey (proving disappointing). I got quite into the tapestry too, which was nice – already wondering what to do next!
Lazy weekend, but there’ll be more of them now the autumn has et in.
