A morning cooking and then some sewing

Last night I decided to start making a Christmas present, a piece of free embroidery on the machine to go int an embroidery hoop to hang on the wall. Free embroidery means dropping the feed dogs on the machine and removing the foot, so you have to be careful not to sew your fingers! I had ordered some mesh like material a while ago which is soluble so that your u can mark the design out on it and sew through it. I tacked some of the soluble mesh on the front and back and drew a simple design. These pics show the stems done and then the flowers as well.

The next photo is before I had properly washed the material after dissolving the mesh, so it was still quite sticky and looking dark.

I washed it then and left it to dry on a towel over night.

This morning I was at the URC all morning helping to prepare and cook their monthly lunch for thirty folk. Today it was the Christmas meal so a lot of preparation  and quite a small kitchen to work it. But we managed and I left at about twelve thirty once everyone had been served, I was very hot and bothered!

Had lunch with Tina and then got back to the present making. I put the ho over the design to get the idea and decided that I needed to do a little bit of highlighting on the flowers.

Interestingly the snowdrops looked much whiter on the back! Anyway, a little bit of hand sewing and then I got the project finished.

A bit of a problem now as I cannot get the feed dogs to come back up on the machine. I have been through the manual and looked on line but no joy, I will call in at the shop in town that sells the machines and see if they can advise me.

Decided to have fish and chips for tea which was really tasty.

Haven’t had a phone call from the surgery, so hopefully I will see the doctor tomorrow!