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		<title>walking on lighter feet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got round to opening the drawer marked &#8221; City and Guilds&#8221;-the one I had closed whilst I pondered what to do about continuing the course . When I first mentioned my uncertain steps, it was because the Opus course was finishing in November. Events moved somewhat hastily yesterday when I had an e-mail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1593&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>seeing some things clearly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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After work today-an early finish-I came home in sunshine and the sort of weather that suggests spring might just be coming. In the garden there are clumps of snowdrops flowering, not just the occasional flower, and the lovely little blue dwarf iris have opened. I spent about an hour pottering about, delighted that it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1546&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lettering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do like adding writing to my stitching&#8230;..


..or is it that I like stitching writing?

Hand dyed stranded rayon thread from Stef Francis on silk.


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		<title>hello, hello, hello!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;nice to be back amongst the bloggers and I hope everyone is well. We&#8217;ve been out and about every weekend and work has taken more time than usual, plus I had started taming the garden ready for spring. The cold weather has put paid to that again for a while-but look&#8230;

snowdrops, just opening! They have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1469&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>catching up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[









It’s one of those days that seems to be significant in history, even to an Englishwoman. I will be watching Obama’s inauguration, along with the millions of others, and hoping his shoulders are broad enough for the weight and his mind is broad enough for the task.
My eyes are bothersome at present and close work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1456&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>green kantha</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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A visit to the Post Office this morning saw my C &#38; G work off on its way-3 files of work so far and a fourth I am still working on at home. This is about the midpoint of the first module-I now begin my study of the Bayeux tapestry and work on a figure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1316&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>whining and dining</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel as if I have been swimming underwater holding my breath for a very long time and I&#8217;m not very good at either the swimming or the breath holding but I think I can nearly come up to the surface because lots is done but no wait lots still needs to be done because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1299&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>death and life of fabric shops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Yesterday Gerdiary asked about the state of fabric shops here, explaining how relatively poor the textile shops in Berlin were. Locally, I have to say that until recently it was dire. This is a small town and the fabric shop that had survived from the 1960&#8217;s succumbed about 8 years ago. Nothing replaced it and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1267&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>working on grids</title>
		<link>http://threadspider.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/working-on-grids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Back in the day, I used to knit elaborate Fair Isle sweaters, using wool from the Shetland Islands and following chartered patterns. It was enjoyable work and I knitted a wide selection of patterns, although it has been many years since I made one. It used to make me smile that there were stories relating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1243&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have re-photographed the couched,textured piece I posted yesterday as, hooray-the sun came out here and lifted my spirits quite considerably. It&#8217;s only small-about 3 by 4 inches  and too me longer than I expected. It has been pressed and framed with drawn threads, so looks a little more presentable.

The next samples are some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=threadspider.wordpress.com&blog=3189814&post=1171&subd=threadspider&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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