Stitching Blue And Green
Sketch Journal Tour
Hey!
How are you?
The weather has finally warmed up a bit here in south-west Essex, we’ve even seen the sun this week! And my thumb is slowly improving, hurrah!
But I still have to make sure that I don’t overdo it with the stitching. I’ll usually get so absorbed in my embroidery that I keep stitching for hours without a break, unless something interrupts me.
So. To make sure that I take breaks, I have set up an interval timer on my phone: stitch for 6 minutes, take a 10 minute break. Repeat this pattern three times and then take a longer break. And then I can repeat the interval. In the breaks I do hand stretches as well.
It’s not ideal, the embroideries progress very slowly, but it’s a way to be able to still do some stitching without making things worse for my poor thumb.
One thing I have been stitching, and finished, is another page for my 100 day project.
This fun mandala stitch sampler. It was a joy to stitch and I love the colours. Despite the lack of pink! :-D
I have turned the mandala into a pattern, buy it here: Cool Mandala Stitch Sampler.
One of the stitches in the pattern is called Clown Collar. I’m not sure how I feel about that, I don’t really like clowns. But the stitch is very pretty. Can you guess which one it is? :-)
Have a lovely weekend!
x Carina
Some Things I Am Enjoying
Reading: Issue 57 of Uppercase Magazine. Love it.
Music: The Tomorrow Again album by Saint Saviour.
Food: I made vegan spaghetti carbonara and it was delicious. :-)
Instagram: @louisetilbrookdesigns
Watching: Tony and I watched the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday. I used to kinda mock the ESC (because it is over the top and not always the best songs and kinda cheesy) but since the Brexshit referendum I have got more into it because it beams a little bit of European (and Europe-adjacent plus Australia) culture into our living room and I am all for that. It makes me so happy when the countries sing in their own language and not in English. I want to listen to Croatian and French and Finnish. I don’t mind not necessarily understanding it. Anyway. Tony and I made colourful mocktails and watched the ESC with chocolate and crisps within reach and it was great. :-)
I recently finished another sketch journal. If you fancy a nosy, here’s a little video with me chatting as I flip through the sketch journal: