Mutter mutter mutter

Well, the heading is aimed towards my lovely gift piece … I managed to frog stitch all that blending filament and the backstitching – but it took me all night! BF is a pain in the butt to remove anyway, without it being nice and crinkly 😉 Then to top it all off, I managed to stitch my first big replacement piece of stitching … and found I was one row out in counting – I think I’m doomed with this piece! The air round here last night matched my decor beautifully … it was very very blue! LOL. Never mind, I’m on 6am shifts this week, so hopefully I can get a few stitches in each afternoon in daylight. I have to admit, I’m usually really careful when I’m ironing, and usually do have a towel underneath it, and a cloth over the top … I was just feeling so under the weather I just wasn’t thinking. Never mind, by hook or by crook I’ll master the damned thing before the week is out! haha.

Thanks everyone as always for your comments – they’re always so welcome 🙂 And an especially big howdy to my cousin Anita, a new reader all the way from Canada – it’s so nice to see you! {{waving}} You’re right, Anita, I’m usually appalling at keeping in touch, so popping in here is a nice way to see what I’m up to … especially as you’re a stitcher too, ‘cos that’s usually all I talk about 🙂 I’m teaching Mum a bit more about emailing and the internet when she comes over to visit next week … so there may be blood on the carpet – either hers or mine hahahaha – no, she’s actually pretty good ‘cos she writes everything down 🙂

I’ve also decided I need to brush up my minimal French (by minimal, I mean I know about 4 whole sentences … “Comment ca va?”, “Je m’appelle Anne”, “je ne comprends pas”, and “je parle le francais petit peu seulement” haha – but there are some wonderful blogs out there written entirely in French … and Google translater really isn’t earning it’s salary at all – I can barely understand the english versions, never mind the french ones! So, perhaps I have a new task for 2006/2007 … improve my language skills LOL.

Rightio, enough dawdling on the computer – off to the “infamous project” … let’s see if I can actually do some stitching that will remain in the linen for more than 60 minutes haha.