Vintage rambling........

Goodness I have been bowled over by your kind comments on my last post and pleased to have made even more people cry!  I will be replying to each and every one : each  and every one made me also a little teary.

Thank you very kindly for all of your kind words.

This week we have no sobbing women.......

I thought that I would avoid  ubiquitous flower shots for Spring and share this instead.

This is just  the first run where I am testing the transfer ability of my new embroidery transfer pencil (which might in fact be a pencil ordinaire thinly disguised).  Yes - a new 'gadget' (though I don't think that it counts as high tech....)

Once I had finished the embroidery I realised that in enlarging the image I had managed to distort it - so my two happy ramblers look a little older than the original I think.

 I forgot that you were supposed to transfer the image on to greaseproof paper and then managed to burn the papier ordinaire which I had used.

I managed to track down nearly the right colours just by going through all those odd tiny bits of Sylko thread which I keep wrapped around bit of old birthday cards.  You do that too? Glad that I am not alone.

Initially thought that I could get away with just a simple back stitch for the outline - but the instructions were right -  it needed to be a whipped back stitch.  Can you see where my hand clearly wobbled when I was using my embroidery transfer pencil........

For reasons I cannot fathom I rather liked how the young boy's shorts turned out!

 All done in haste (as usual) but I will use this embroidery as a  pocket on my new 'Bag for Rambling along the Highways and Byways Bag'.  What do you mean you don't have a 'Bag for Rambling along the Highways and Byways Bag'?  Crikey!

 I will be sewing all the other motifs for a range of bags in the new 'Bags for all sorts of unexpected occasions bags'.  What do you mean you don't have any  'Bags for all sorts of unexpected occasions bags'? Crikey!

I will also be making a 'large purse come small clutch type thing' with the figure reading a book motif.  What do you mean you don't have a 'large purse come small clutch type thing'? Crikey!

 As well as these pretty designs this magazine also  has a range of home makes that would make even the contestants on 'The Great British Sewing Bee' quake I think!

I always like to think that I am up-to-date, current, on-trend so I am only 80 years late here........

How I would love to see the competition winners in the flesh as 'twere.

It was clearly a 'dog eat dog' world of needlework : Well done to Miss Climpson though sorry to hear that some 'excellent pieces of work had to be disqualified because the design had been traced out of the straight or the foundation material allowed to become puckered'.  Crikey!

Despair too for Miss Tradewell for 'an interesting picture of an enchanted forest which was spoilt by too much detail'.  Crikey again!

A similar fate befell Mrs Stillingfleet's cathedral whose 'lines of architecture were crooked'.

A harsh world indeed.

 Still the holidays are nearly here!

EVEN I DO NOT HAVE A "CUSHION FOR THE RIVER".........but wish that I did....

A change of topic.....

The other day I made a 'series' of lavender bags : this one is from  soon to be launched 'Old Rose' series.

I do not have a tin with lavender on it which I consider to be a weakness in my tin collection.....

Beats the smell of moth balls I reckon.

A change of topic

I have made some of the bunting from this fabric each year for many years now - the  fabric dates from 1960s

This year I have also made a matching purse (not yet photographed) .....no hope is there......

A change of topic

Predictable and sheep-like am I.....

Of course I have taken photographs of Spring flowers!

Spring flowers are just spiffingly wonderful

Yet more of the cheapo bulbs planted last November now coming good.  All sorts of tubs and tins have been pressed into action of course.  This one with the crocus only has one handle so I didn't feel bad about putting holes in the bottom.

Drink in that sun - how I have missed it

Found a nice knife in one of the pots..this is used for slicing and dicing plants.

Hellebores - simply splendid

The End

I love to go a rambling....
Along the seaside track
And as I go
I love to sing
My newly embroidered knapsack on my back

Valderi
Valdera
Valdera-ha-ha-ha-ha
Valderi
Valdera
My newly embroidered knapsack on my back.............

Not quite the end.....

PS: I decided to do this little embroidery too.

I added sparkle to my needle

Then we decanted to the beach

 I got some funny looks whilst taking these and I also had to battle with the wind blowing the embroidery over.

This will be emblazoned on the front of a tough canvas duffle bag I think: not quite decided but I am in dire need of something to put the sandwiches and flask in when the 'full picnic set' is not quite called for.
You have those sorts of days too?
So glad that I am not alone with these sorts of issues

A tough canvas duffle bag with a little embroidery on the front might fit the bill.

Any thoughts?

DON'T WORRY THAT REALLY IS THE LAST BIT!