Today, sunny and cool, I got a walk in, not very far, hip tiring quickly and I forgot to bring Carol Cane, but it was lovely anyway, interesting local sights. The colors are still beautiful, berries and some leaves still on the trees.
Then home to make a quick pasta with red sauce, dessert of chocolate cherries.
And a whole lot of work on the dolls. Here's where baffled people see how these dolls are constructed.
Stitch the body like a tube, seam at the back, stuff with batting, run a thread round the neck, draw up to form the head, do likewise to draw closed the feet.
Then stitch right through the body to form arms and legs -- I like how they seem to have their hands in their pockets. It's a kind of simple soft sculpture. Then stitch facial features, simpler the better. And suddenly -- people!
I have two more to go, then I'll send them off.
It's definitely calming to have this kind of work on hand, and to know it's going into good (little) hands.
Happy day everyone, find whatever helps you get or stay calm and strong, might be any number of things. If you've found a good idea, would you share it here? Thank you.
The equality flag needs to be seen in here regularly now, in view of the new threats.
