I've got my 'free' Charlotte potatoes from The Daily Telegraph chitting along nicely in a little box in the kitchen. Although the potatoes were allegedly free, as was the large growing sack to plant them in (sans compost) and five packets of Thompson seeds - basil, coriander, tomatoes, chilli and something else that I can't remember right now - the postage was £4.50. I could probably have got the whole lot cheaper somewhere else but it seemed like a good offer and I went for it. I had a nice little crop of potatoes last year and I'm looking forward to seeing how large the crop will be this summer. Ah, it's so nice to be able to start thinking about growing things in the garden again.
There's also been some very basic quilting going on, along with some hand-sewing of bias binding - neither of which I've ever attempted before but it seems to be working out quite nicely. It's for a secret birthday present so I can't say too much about it as yet. It's one of those projects that start out as quite a simple idea and then sort of get bigger and more complicated as you're going along, or is that just me!
I've also done some frogging of a hot-water bottle cover I knitted in the autumn. The sizing was all wrong and the wool - some thrifted cream Icelandic Lopi - was a bit too coarse for my liking. I know just what I'd like to knit with it this time, a plain cushion cover which I can gussy up with some rather nice painted wooden buttons I bought at the Vintage and Handmade Textile Fair last summer. Probably not the time of year to be thinking of woolly cushion covers but who cares.
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