FNSI October

 Nothing to show for my afternoon although I was busy. Having completed my Chookshed Challenge I wanted to get on with another project that has long been on my to do list. When my parents died in 2019 I found that Mum had kept all the wedding cards, telegrams, notes etc from their marriage in 1950. Photos too of course. So I thought that I would put them all safely into a book to pass onto my nieces and nephew at some point. I have had the book for a couple of years and had already sorted through a large pile of newspaper cuttings that had also been kept regarding family members.

On Friday afternoon I sorted through the photographs and made a plan for how I want to add everything to the book. Next I need to sort through the cards and start adding things to the book. Hopefully some photographs to show you next week.

My stitch journal contribution for the day was the Feather and Chain stitch on the right. I added the Oyster stitches to it today. These are my additions for the week.

I have been working on my crochet jumper this week. Having given up with the pattern I decided to make up my own based on a knitted tunic I have that I find useful to wear over a shirt. It is a simple boxy shape with three quarter length sleeves. Having made a couple of starts and various errors around the neck I am now safely onto the main body which just involves simple rounds of crochet with no decreases/increases. Here is my progress so far.

Not much else has happened - I have been reading a lot!

We had a nice day out to Dunster visiting the castle as always and having some lunch in the Water Mill tea rooms. On the way we stopped at Watchet which has a great community bookshop, which will close in a couple of weeks for the winter. Picked up a nice crochet jumper book - could have done with that a couple of weeks ago - a novel that was on my reading list and an artist book to add to my collection.

We have lots of autumn colour here - this is a neighbours tree which I look at every day from our conservatory

and these looking to the left from our garden

so I was hoping to find plenty of colour on our walk along the river at Dunster. However, it was all still looking very green, presumably because it is on the coast and therefore milder. However we did find plenty of flowers to enjoy on our walk.

The root area of this fallen tree was covered in cyclamen.

So that was my week - well we had flu jabs this morning and I had dentist and eye apts during the week but that is not very interesting!

Hope you all had a good week and I will be back next week.