For the next couple of weeks all our energies will be in preparing for June 8th. Please note, this is two and a half weeks. On Saturday, Caroline panicked us all saying we had two weeks left; Maureen fined herself £5 for miscounting and making it four weeks.
Prizes for the raffle are starting to arrive, from firms as diverse as Tea pigs and Thomas Ramsden. Caroline had made 15 flags for the yellow and blue bunting before 8.30 this morning. Maureen and I are making plans to keep children happy.
On Friday Laura came in with some cute sock key rings - all perfect, with heel flaps and grafted toes. I liberated one before they got out on display. Laura also brought a cow cuddle-cushion she made for us. It will be a guess-the-name competition. Whatever the right answer, I KNOW she is Ermintrude, out of The Magic Roundabout.
Julie and I had a sweet customer on Friday: she told us she had been waiting outside, getting up courage to come in and ask us about the seamed tights in the window. She was very giggly, preparing for a holiday in Paris, and announcing for all to hear, 'I'm really into sex'. She was at least 80!
Another customer brought in some wall hangings she is making. She is machine embroidering and using scarf yarns to get her effects. One picture is of a country road, with flowers growing along the verges;
she has used the peacock scarf ribbon, selecting a section with green along the bottom and the blue 'eyes' along the top, so it looks like blue flowers growing in grass. I so admire people who look at something and immediately see its possibilities outside its original purpose.
Jules has finished Iggle Piggle, the jumper started by the lady who died. It looks good. It's so generous, to give her time and considerable thought to sorting out the lady's work.
Photos tomorrow of Venus, before, during and after blocking.
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