seriously stitching

Well, since I gave Rebe her sewing box on her Birthday last week the whole family has gone sewing mad!

Rebe discovered embroidery, all on her own. She started 'drawing' pictures on a piece of fabric with coloured threads from her box.

 I saw what she was doing and found her an embroidery hoop to make it easier for her and she just took off,

'To Dad'

Andy on a boat

waves and a fish complete with scales.

Joa wanted to join in too, Rebe threaded him a needle and gave him a piece of felt.

Oh so carefully he stitched it together.

And Benny made dinner:

This is a really simple craft, one I may use at Buddies in the future. For the sausage I helped him to fold a piece of pink felt in half and he stitched up along the edge (I went over it with the machine to strengthen it - which he helped with too). He stuffed carded sheeps wool into it and we tied up the ends. The egg he made by cutting a piece of white felt to the right size and then a piece of yellow felt to be the yoke. He stitched the yoke onto the white with yellow thread. He's had great fun cooking dinner for us all since.

What I am not saying here is that today is my Birthday, that it has been an incredibly hard day in terms of my separation from Andy, that I have been filled with stress and tension and quick to cry, that I feel sick and tired and sad. But I am sitting here to write this post using pictures I took last week so I can come out of that feeling and remember the special moments. So I can have a break from feeling awful and fell normal. My neighbour is coming over for dinner tonight, a dinner cooked for me by a dear friend. I hope that this year will be good for me, exciting and full of new joys and experiences and of course lots of more sewing.