Saturday 27th September - through the letterbox

 came the next 2By2 stitching collaboration letter - oh happy happy happy! We always have not a clue what to expect. 

All this

was tucked inside the envelope, plus the write-up to give the background to the stitching.

The fabric comes from a recent visit to Quarry Bank that Ang and Bob took the grandchildren to earlier this month the summer. She was able to buy a fat quarter of the fabric they weave in the mill, printed with bees. She's added the hexagons, and embroidered over the bee with a with embroidery floss. The wings are filled with a delicate glittering tracery of rainbow metallic thread.

Just beautiful. 

The letting was stitched over waste fabric, the sort which dissolves away in warm water - very clever! That's why it looks so neat. 

Here's my September square; I have crocheted a granny square using variegated sock yarn and one of my godmother's fine crochet hooks.

She would say it's quite a thick hook! The others in her wallet are for crocheting using cotton thread, as she used to make loads of intricate doilies and table runners, lace curtains and other items. She was born in 1929 and grew up in Finland, knitting and crocheting everything including her stockings from a young age.

I sewed the granny squares down onto the linen fabric using brown perlé thread.

 

The August squares are below, and the September ones above.

I'm temporarily out of Limericks, but

The common cormorant, or shag

Lays eggs inside a paper bag.

The reason why is clear, no doubt;

It is to keep the lightning out.

But what these unobserved birds

Have never noticed I that herds 

Of wandering gears, all eating buns

Steal the bags to keep their crumbs.

I've just checked; this was perpetrated by Christopher Isherwood. 

Why is it I can remember verses like these but struggle to learn Proper Poetry?