We've had some hot and windy days here - hotter than usual for this time of year and things are starting to dry off quite quickly. It is still flowery and green but I'm not sure for how much longer - although we are meant to have storms tomorrow. The changeability of spring...
I took advantage of a hot dry day to scrub the wool rug that was in front of the fire and showing signs of soot ... as suggested by absolutely no-one (including Ikea who made it) I hosed it off, scrubbed it with hand soap and laid it out on the grass to dry. It worked surprisingly well, and was a very good task to spray the hose about after getting super hot from weeding.
I did the little rug too. Friends brought it back from Esfahan in Iran when they went on holiday there about 20 years ago ... other friends were there on posting and we would have liked to go and visit, but it's not really feasible with two very small children. And I don't know if I'd go now, the age window for adventurous travel might have closed. Not that Iran is particularly adventurous, you can do it quite luxuriously I think. Anyway they make a nice rug and it's held up well to constant wear.
So here is something completely different on the needlework front - a crazy quilted pillow! We had a lesson at quilters with one of the ladies who is an amazingly accomplished crazy quilter and has absolute buckets of glorious laces and beads and braids and fabric to do it with. The piecing is quite straightforward but then you spend ages and ages embellishing ... shiny things and fancy things and pretty things and all the embroidery stitches (well, not from me, I only know three stitches but I did them in different colours).
I very much enjoyed doing one block but that was about my limit, so I made it into a pillow and it sits looking very old-fashioned in our very old-fashioned front room. Good to do something entirely different.
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