The Two Week Catch Up

OK so I am a little behide with the Blog ! Hope you all changed your clocks this morning !

Last weekend we were visiting my parents and going out for Mother's Day Lunch at Mum's favourite cafe =) A manic drive home due to hold ups on the M25 and the snow !

Monday was a little stressful as DH had an interview which went ok and he reached the final two ... but was not selected. Had he been successful this entry would be telling you about our house move so he could be closer to a new job !

Instead we had a pleasent afternoon in Petersfield picking up a few bits including my MIL birthday gift. We are visiting my parents in law next weekend which just happens to be her birthday =) .... although the visit had been planned so that we could go into Liverpool to see the France MacDonald exhibtion - but more about that next week.

Tuesday evening I should have been at the local Embroiderers Guild meeting. A practical was planned on buttons. See above. I was down to run a workshop on make covered embroidered buttons and these were my samples. Instead I was stuck on a train =( ... Although I did get quite a bit of cross stitch done.

This weekend, well Saturday, spent a bit more time working on a speical birthday gift for my sister... as I can not show you that or tell you about it in case she is reading this. Full set of pictures in June.

I thought I would tell you about a new tool I have been playing with !

The silent setter - a easy to use device to add eyelets to things... well its designed for paper , but I have been playing with it on fabric.
Here is a couple I tried yesterday. Works quite well. Although if you have more that one layer of fabric you need to stamp the initial hole in each piece as the stamper can not get though a thick piece ...
The 'T' shaped handle on the left is connected with one of the black heads on the right to make a hole. Then you place a eyelet in the hole. Eyelets shown below. Then you swap the head in the handle above from the black one to the silver head which is paired with the black head.
You have the eyelet face down , the shank coming through the fabric. The silver head sits on the top and you push down ... and its all finished =) Works very well !