Friday 7th February - sewing and squirrels

 Or rather squirrels and sewing.

Many years ago in the 1980s Carling Black Label ran this advert;

We had to record it on our Betamax video recorder for our children to watch over and over and over again!

It's not surprising that my birdfeeder is no obstacle to getting at the bird feeder. My current solution is to put out some easy-to-get-to food, which so far seems to be enough for them to leave the more expensive sunflower hearts alone. 

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I'm so late with January's Cover Story collaboration with Ang this month! I kind of fell into days of non-functionality for anything that needed half a brain... too much to get through with funeral arrangements while also dealing with my own routine hospital and dental appointments up until very recently. This has been a slack week and so I'll be posting it off today.

Ang and I have been adding a patch every month to what will become an A5 notebook cover. (We swap covers every month.)

There's space for two more patches on each space, and then we'll embellish the seams, and add the our names and dates at the sides and make them up into covers.

This will become my cover; her January stitching is the snow scene. For February I  need to add a small piece to half of the space in the top left hand corner.

She was very well organised, her stitching arrived well in time!

It's a mixture of appliqué, and layers of lace for snow, and embroidered figures. It makes me want to join in!

This will be Ang's;

 

I have covered up my stitching because I haven't posted it yet; I don't want to spoil the surprise. I have added an extra detail to a previous piece; wonder if can spot what did...

She needs to choose either the long thin strip on the left or the square in the top right.

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Nunc Dimittis 

This was composed by Oliver Burgon for the television series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy from the book by John le Carre. Sung by the choir of King's College,  Cambridge.