Hello! This is my first 'blogging' ever and it has taken some while just to get to 'postings'! So fingers crossed this will get published to our actual blog page!

What do you write on a blog i ask myself? I sit here and ponder for some seconds..................

I have been creative today and helped my photographer husband download some images of my work for our website, he has done an amazing job....they look fabulous. Looking at them does make me want to get down to some serious new work. So hopefully whilst my daughter Ellie is away camping on D of E this weekend i will get some time.

Yesterday i went to the Stitch show at the NEC and just had to purchase a few choice items! I know i already have lots of lovely yarns and threads but these new ones are just so lush . It would have been a crime not to buy! Do i need more velvet??.....well i don't have any undyed silk velvet, or rather i didn't! I also bought some gorgeous charms to use on my hangings. If you go to the show check out the Kemshalls stand (yes i had to buy some of their hand dyed threads too!) they have some lovely work and i chatted to them as well. Carole Pitt is there and Jane Hall . Alot of the quilts are well.........boring! I also spent some time looking at sewing machines because i just cannot get my Bernina Artista 630 to perform free machining on the canvas that i use. I think , with the little time i had that a Husqvama Sapphire may be the one. It worked a dream on the sample canvas i took with me. Hopefully i can trade my Bernina in part exchange.

I think that is enough for now because i don't want to bore the pants of you . So i shall go and do some stitching with some of my lush new threads and some delicious bits of blue and green rope that i collected on the beach at Dunwich last weekend. Bye for now , Valleri