Amazing Grace

Normally when I get my camera out Grace is not happy

she manages to turn each time I click

and I delete loads of shots of her rear end

Yesterday I got lucky

 Hubby had a parcel arrive yesterday, it was for me

after I told him about the book I just finished reading

he found the sequel at a good price on Amazon

 Not being able to do much

means I sit and stitch hope to finish this soon.

I have also cut out another two fat quarters, so loads of sewing to do. 

Did a swap for a couple hot peppers, 

I always have too many tomato and cucumber seedlings

My car has been picked up for it's service, so I am at home today, hubby has gone to play golf, I'm not sure if that is wise, but he made his mind up to go, on the plus side it is dry and sunny outside.
So few hours at home, I am going to have a cleaning morning, get it out of the way.
Over the weekend I will tidy my garden, last year I followed Monty's advice and left all the seed heads for the wildlife, and with such a mild winter, they lasted well, but now I have loads of dried material needing to be removed. This year should be rather easy, it's our 7th spring in the garden so most of the main work has been sorted, it's just a case of ensuring we have plenty of colour.

A helpful tip, I do not buy kits, I always find the fabrics supplied are too big for my love of fine stitching, so I have over the years saved DMC threads. DMC threads were used because the village wool shop sold this brand when I was a child. When I pop them on my plastic bobbins, I always take the long sleeve with the colour number on and tuck it next to the card and then wrap the thread over both, this saves you having to put the number on the bobbins. When I finish the colour, I pop the sleeve in my purse, nice and safe ready for when I next pop to a shop to ensure I replace the correct colour. These days when I find a design, often I have most of the colours in my stash, and if I don't have the correct colours I will have something very close.