Then a little later in this year, my mum in law Marie gave me all the embroidery threads that her Mum Alice had left from all the beautiful embroidery she did. I felt really chuffed and privileged to receive this gift and had a delightful time sorting out all the colours and skeins into order and organising them, whilst remembering the colours that Alice had used in each of the tablecloths she embroidered.
Having not done any embroidery for a long time - it was coming up to my sister Ali's birthday and we had been on a charity shop run together and I had found a huge batch of cross stitch books with ideas and charts in. One of them had a gorgeous insect alphabet so I decide to start with something relatively easy and have a go, much helped by the fact that Ali is only 3 letters!!
I was quite pleased with end result. I am currently in the midst of another card - which is late!!
