Pictures for Sunday - The White Hart

 

One of the most striking and realistic pub signs I have ever seen.

 



And probably the most surreal.

A Picture for Sunday - Pub Sign

Especially welcoming when you know what is inside.

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A Brief Bulletin From The Pub

...using husband's laptop and the pub's WiFi connection.

There will be a brief interruption to this blog. 

On Friday I tried to post my reply to Nola's quiz question that she posted as a comment on Thursday, and nothing happened.  The internet had disappeared into a cyberhole.

Yesterday the men in a van came to check the connection in the hole in the road and had to give up before they started because there was a car parked over the cover.  We are expecting them back tomorrow.

Tonight our main computer is being packed up in a box ready for a quick trip to computer hospital for a check up.

So no blogging for a few days, but plenty of time for sewing, drawing patterns and generally tidying up the sewing den.  By the end of the week I should be posting off a very important doll quilt to Karen in Canada.

Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...

Nola, it's for hanging your mothballs in the wardrobe.

Love,
Muv

Stitching in a Pub

Last month I took a trip to see some friends in South Wales.  I was doing the stitching around the last piece of appliqué on the Diamond Jubilee Quilt at the time.  We ended up in a lovely quiet pub where I could relax with a pot of tea and do a bit more of the blanket stitch.

Stitching in the Pub

Since March I have been working on a quilt to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.  At about the same time a new topic started on Quilting Board, the Patriotic Challenge, started by a couple of Canadian ladies who were looking forward to Canada Day in July.  The idea was that we should all encourage each other on our patriotic projects.

Because of all the hand sewing I have been doing, my project is taking months, but the end is in sight!

Having been abroad twice in the past few weeks, I didn't want to fall behind with the project, so on each occasion I took my sewing with me.  A couple of appliqué flowers were blanket stitched in Spain, and the pine cones and some acorns and oak leaves were blanket stitched in Poland. Because we were so close to the Czech border I took my sewing with me on a trip we made there and did five or six quick stitches on an oak leaf in a Czech car park.

The ladies on the Patriotic Challenge all thought it was a great lark, and then a voice piped up from Indiana.  "Why don't you do some stitching in the Pub?", followed by another from Canada saying "Yes, and take pictures to prove it!"

So here's a picture.  A couple of pints for the lads on Saturday afternoon, and a lemon tea and the chair with the Union Jack cushion for me.  A very relaxing little sewing session.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee Bash

The pub was packed on 4th June.  The Queen's Diamond Jubilee coincided with the first anniversary of the pub reopening after being renovated.  The landlady made a fabulous Union Jack cake...

... and in the nick of time I finished a wall hanging that took pride of place in the restaurant for about ten days.

Being a true vintage girl and in a patriotic frame of mind, I used only Singers (made in Scotland) for this project - my 1927 99K (hand machine) for the applique, and all the quilting was done on the 15K treadle.

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A peep inside the pub

What has this video got to do with sewing?  Absolutely nothing.  Today has been one of those rare days where I have been nowhere near sewing or a sewing machine.  It started with breakfast in bed and ended with supper in the pub.  Yes, you guessed it, it's my birthday.   And for the first time in weeks it DIDN'T EVEN RAIN.  Truly wondrous.