Thursday 30th October - perfect patches

This one, from Ang for the 2By2 collaboration, is perfect. 

She created it using autumnal shades of embroidery threads using a speed weaver to make a woven darn on aida fabric. 'A speedweaver?', I hear you ask...

One of these.  

I've got one too... they take a bit of practice but you can make neat,  intricate, and decorative darns.

She also made me a scissors case for folding scissors. If you nip across to her blog you can read all about how the patch and the scissors case were made.

I put the last few stitches into my 2By2 patches this morning so they will be posted when we go into the town tomorrow. 

This afternoon I swiped through 'The Simple Life' magazine on the Pressreader app. My library offers both the Pressreader and Libby apps; Linby let's me read e-books, listen to audio books and read current magazines and newspapers. Pressreader is only for magazines and newspapers but you can read back issues as well. I'd be reluctant to buy Simple Life, but I enjoy flipping swiping through it occasionally. 

An advertisement for this patch caught my eye;

Did they design it especially for me?

This morning I mended a hole in one of my gloves. I didn't have fine red yarn to hand, but there was a length of blue and white sock yarn in the basket... ah well, visible mending is the fashion at the moment!

There's an address to send off for the rest of patches...