Embroidery is a nice hobby - it is very meditative. This sort of embroidery takes a fair bit of practice to get right because you have to judge the position of the needle and size of stitches evenly, but things like cross stitch are usually done on fabric with evenly spaced holes to guide you. It is not too complicated but gives you something to do with your hands, and it gives you just enough to do with your conscious brain that you don’t get bored without taking up all your attention, so most of your brain has space to process things and do some quality sub-conscious thinking.

It would be the different stitches that attracted her to the design - she’s always hated doing lots of satin stitch and preferred using different fill stitches.

This is my favourite embroidery piece (with hand crocheted edging) that my mother did.

She’s always been more interested in doing the crochet than the embroidery, so there are lots of doilies and things in the cupboard.

Can you do a second run without any detergent to rinse instead? That would at least cut out a little bit of effort.

It’s too hard to decide. I think I’ll have a grazing platter, please.

Good morning Seagoon, thank you for posting a Thursday thread. Briongloid’s Tuesday version had me most confused. I have a hard enough time keeping track of the days as it is, I wasn’t sure what part of the week I was in for a few minutes 😃

Yay. I told Mr Woof it was too hot for second walkies, but it is looking like an evening walk might be possible after all.

Mmmm toastie. I had a cheese, pork and sauerkraut toastie today, what was on yours?

I have just worked out why I’ve been having trouble with the connection between my phone and headset. I’ve got my GPS unit on in the other room and it’s trying to make a handsfree connection through that instead. Most of the introductory recorded message got played in another room, if it had been a real person they’d have hung up on me before I got it figured out.

I’m glad it’s a nice day to dry washing, I have just picked up a bunch of sheets gifted through a buy nothing group and will have a couple of loads. There are a couple in there that have some great patterns on them. They’ve probably been sitting in the cupboard for years as the unwanted top sheet out of a set, finally their time has come!

Edit: a few of the sheets are pure polyester. They will not be making it to the bed and are going straight to the “other projects” pile

I have been looking at an area of Ballarat on streetview, and as well as being 15 years out of date it appears the car covered a large area with a leaf stuck to the camera. Not helpful, Google.

If they can save money on the main groceries there will be money free to buy lollies. It was very motivational for me.

Don’t worry, they’ll just transfer the workload to one of the few remaining staff they have left and let them handle it all for no extra pay. What could go wrong?!

Potato served three ways please.

You need to train them up so when they are old enough they can help instead of hinder the process. I was chief bargain spotter in our family, my sister and I took turns with exciting tasks like trolley return and of course we all worked to carry all the groceries in when we got home.

Oooh, good choice. Now I’m jealous.

Mr Woof is sad to yet again miss his afternoon walk. Reasons today: 50% too hot, 50% police helicopter hovering overhead and making me nervous. If it cools down another degree or two and the chopper goes away we might be able to head out a bit later.

Edit: both conditions were met and we have managed an evening walk.

mmmmm squishy

Octopus on rice, with a side of jellyfish please.

Hot + Windy = “I don’t wanna go to work today” 😭

Update: Am now at work. Still don’t wanna.