Hello Spring!

No, no way, I didn't paint the cloth! But once finished this little flower seemed to be smiling just as happily as all the wild narcissus and other pretty flowers popping up along the verges of the roads. So I felt like playing a little to make it greet the arrival of spring...

Stitching again!

It's so nice to have an embroidery hoop in my hands. But after such a long pause, it's hard work getting my stitches even again...

slowly, slowly

Trying to cope with the heat has been hard. Last week the temperature reached 40ºC, after slowly going up the previous weeks. It is likely to stay there for several days more. Things are moving very slowly around here.

My embroidery too is advancing at this slow pace. When not working or cooling out in the river I may even manage a few stitches - only to stop soon after to scratch the many mosquito bites; and if I can then add a few more I'll have to get up after a short interval to get ice cubes for my swollen feet...

But I have made a little progress, though. I just hope I'll manage to keep embroidering, even if at this very slow pace, a few stitches per week...

sneak peek

I've been busy. And after nearly two months of silence there's some catching up to do with my writing, which will probably not come that easily.

I'll try to work on that. But in the meantime I can't restrain my wish to share a view of my sampler so far. At the moment I'm trying to correct some uneven lines. When these are done I'll post 'proper' pictures.