Thank you, St. Anthony

[callmemadam]

I just had a rummage in a cupboard for a cable needle I need for a knitting project and I found...

A very pretty completed piece of tapestry work which I had never bothered to turn into a cushion cover and had completely forgotten about.
An expensive Erdmann tapestry kit only just started.
Some nice unused embroidery silks.
Quantities of leftover yarn I can't remember having knitted with, but I must have done.
Quantities of good yarn bought from boot sales and charity shops.
An abandoned piece of knitting plus unused balls of a nice cotton/linen yarn which I can undo and make into something else.
A circular knitting pin.
Three stitch holders.
Three good pairs of scissors.
A crochet hook in its packet.
A set of double ended needles in packet.
A packet of knitting/sewing needles.

And a packet of three cable needles!

Comments

[minniemoll.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful haul! I was pleased to find my old set of needles in the loft, but that's all I found. I'm sure I used to have more, but I've not seen any of it in recent years, it may still be at my parents' house with my mum's stuff.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I really should do something with the tapestry. That's the problem with my projects: I enjoy the work but not the sewing up and finishing off. I'm sure I do have another cable needle, one of those with a kink in the middle, which is still missing but finding this lot was a bonus. All those scissors! There was even some dishcloth yarn.

[minniemoll.livejournal.com]

I have lots and lots of completed cross stitch pictures, but they're all in boxes. One day I will get round to having at least some of them framed.

I do like doing cross stitch, but I'm enjoying knitting more as I can wear the results! I'm not mad on sewing up, but I force myself to do it straightaway. And since I discovered mattress stitch I like it a lot more - I used to do backstitch, but it always made messy seams, now you can hardly see them.