April Musings

 We’ve been out and about over Easter and having family time with my youngest son and family, as his birthday was over the Easter weekend. Being as his birthday was on the 16th, it either comes over Easter holidays or Easter has come and gone! 

Just along the road from where he lives there’s a postbox with an Easter topper.

During this last week we visited Wimborne as we had an appointment there and we took the opportunity to visit the recently refurbished Museum of East Dorset.  This is a lovely small museum of local life with a long garden, which was lovely to walk around in the sunny weather. 

Inside was a collection of Victorian cards.  The building once was a stationers shop, which was owned by John Lowe and on his death the shop was closed and sealed for many years.

Some Valentines cards were called Acid Valentines, a beautiful card with a rather barbed greeting! 

We had a wander through the building and took a few pics

The was a wall hanging with printed panels.

This bar window was in an outside yard, with the sun shining through.  Love the pattern on this.

A rag rug in the kitchen in front of the range. So it was good to spend time at a local museum.

Anyway, back to some sewing and a new small project inspired by Instagram.  This is the Spring Secret Project by two ladies, Irina and Larisa who go under the (hashtag) sipteaandepp. It is a little pouch with some EPP and embroidery. This is how far I’ve got. Sorry, the photo isn’t brilliant - will do better next time!  The pouch is quilted by machine. Hand sewing the wedges together and since I took the photo there’s a little embroidery to add, which I’m. In the process of doing.

Sadly over the weekend there has been a large Heath fire not far from where I live, people who lived in the vicinity of the fire has to evacuated for a while but fortunately it didn’t get as far as the houses.  But it did cause extensive damage.  The vegetation might recover, but wildlife lost will take longer.  This was in this morning’s Guardian Newspaper.