Blogging is amazing, so many lovely people out there - focus on you not the yucky people!Thanks so much for all the hugs, support and kind comments, much better now and back to normal.
Well not exactly normal as I managed to sprain my ankle this week so it is now a lovely swollen, blue and purple mess and my ankle bone has vanished. I didn't have slender ankles before but now it's elephantine! At some point last month I thought it would be a good idea to book two French Knots parties and a Christmas Craft Fair in a three day period - what was I thinking!?! Not only am I shuffling along but it's my sewing machine pedal foot too ! Fortunately Mr FK has been working away this week so hasn't had to listen to my moaning!
Anyway.....I had a lovely dream the other night about a sewing machine that sewed lines of pretty flowers, perhaps thoughts of Suzie Sews and her wonderful machine were swimming around in my subconscious. I shuffled into the Singer Sewing Shop and had a look at a couple of machines, the one I liked best did about 20 different stitches, including a row of little flowers and many other fancy stitches.Any recommendations dear friends? I don't really need anything that will run a small country when programmed and tend to do embroidery by hand. But I suppose it would be good to invest in something that gives my extra choices in the future, most of all it has to be reliable. My current one was Mum's, I remember her making a matching nightie and dressing gown for me out of a pretty floral cotton with pearly buttons about 30 years ago. Wish I still had the nightie as well as the sewing machine. It's a New Home which I think is now part of Janome and it has been trouble free and totally reliable, even over the last few months when it has done so much work for me.
Picked up this lovely ( obviously unironed!) floral fabric in the 50p bin and might turn it into a couple of peg bags.
The Big Sister really enjoyed herself in the Drama Club play yesterday and the green cloak with stand up collar ( 'baddies always have stand up collars!') looked good.She has been helping me this week and even put her little brother to bed, might have to string the sore ankle thing out for a while!