This is the week I became a Grandma for the first time – 31yrs ago.
……Granny belongs to me – Nana belongs to my children…..
I’m Grandma to my children’s children
And if all goes well in a month’s time (last week in November) – I’ll become a GtGrandma …….for the fourth time.
There’s been lots of head scratching and thinking as to what I can make (not buy) as a welcome gift……which would usually be a knitted newborn ‘matinee’ set ‘cept this will be a ‘summer babe’ with both parents over 6’ tall who were big (9lb+) babies. The needles will be better used making winter woolies – size and sex will be known by then (parents are still adamant about not knowing the gender until baby is born.
’Our little girl’ suggested – “what about those hanging things”
Hanging things? – “The ones you made for Miss S”
Oh yes, I vaguely remembered x stitching some little wall hangings for the first baby – yes, the very same one above…..
Anyway I’ve made a start on one but by golly to get to this point has definitely been a lesson in patience.
Remember my recent admission of hanging onto stuff …..well that came in handy because I remembered I’d very carefully stored those charts away.
But where….
Teddy chart found, a little worse for wear so The Golfer scanned and printed a couple for me…..
Bother bother bother – nothing is ever straightforward….
……there were no thread numbers on the key.
So out came the ‘supplies’……
OK, I’ll admit to having an awful lot of threads/floss/silks to choose from😉
As you can see the bears are going to be darker than the original…..the instruments will be different as well. It wasn’t supposed to be that way, I found similar colours but decided otherwise in the end.
Corny as it sounds I’m definitely enjoying this refound feeling of contentment that hand stitching gives. Knitting is great but it’s constant movement whereas this is quieter, more precise. You’re attached to what you’re working on…..more involved.
I like it!
Just one drawback…..even on cool days …….I have to work outside
the eyes – the light
And not being a fan of audiobooks, I can’t read🙁
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Oh, and what has become of Miss S….my first little one…..well……
I can assure you……‘she ain’t little anymore’
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It’s Wednesday so I’m linking to Wednesday Words & Whimsy….. click HERE to find out who dropped by
I’ll also be linking this to Kat’s featured post – Unraveled Wednesday……where the talk is all about craft, books and life in general. You can find out what others are up to HERE.
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