As
well as comments on Facebook, Mrs Quilt and I regularly exchange emails.
Regular
readers may be amused by these excerpts from communications earlier this week...
Mrs
Quilt to Bentonbag
Our walk
this morning was perfectly timed. The
sun shone on the rocks and causeway, about a dozen young seals were basking to
allow their coats to renew and the wind was still. We walked back along the beach, the sun went
in, temperature dropped and the sky looked threatening.
I think
that I knitted a "Tyne Bridge you" as a wedding present. Initially I thought I'd knitted a Cullercoats
Fish wife. I've been invited to a 70th
birthday party and am a loss for a gift. The ideal would be the Cullercoats fishwife
but I haven't thought how to tackle the horizontal tucks in the skirt. I might
resort to pearl stitch ridges! I've got navy 4ply but will be searching for
black and white if I can find the pattern to do fairisle checks for the shawl. Tiny fish might be a bit of a problem too, I've got gold "Lyscordet"
but no silver. Perhaps I'm going off the idea and will buy a bottle of white
instead!
Bentonbag
to Mrs Quilt
Yes you
made a Tyne Bridge me and a complimentary thin Fester as wedding presents,
together with miniature copies of the Guardian*. They are reading theirs in the
lounge, Madam LeBruin the cook is reading her's in the kitchen and there's one
on the bed for doing the crossword puzzle later. You many notice on the bed the tiny cardigan
Granma knitted for one of my little dollies, I don't think she used a pattern.
I believe
I made a Sandgate doll for one of Mrs Leftfoot's babies.
I think I did an extra row of plain in the
stocking stitch for the horizontal pleats.
I've been
out doing some therapeutic pruning this morning. I couldn't see the birdfeeders from my rocking
chair because of next door's holly.
I've
taken it back to the fence on my side up to about 7ft, which gives me a clear
view. Then I had a go at the brambles,
Loch Ness thornless blackberry and cotoneaster by the garage. For once all the berries were gone so I didn't
feel guilty depriving the birds. Then the
brambles in the front garden. Next I cut
back the oak, yew and lavender impinging on the front path, and gave the yew
and lavender a bit of a trim.
Felt a
lot better after that as it was a bad start to the day.
Painful
constipation relief for Thunderthighs.
Ferretfingers
didn't want to go out without a £10 note despite having more than that in coins
in his purse.
Fester
was being deaf and useless.
"Oh
you've had a bad morning" he commented on his way out to the Mining
Institute Library leaving the washing up behind him...
It's a
great life if you don't weaken.
Mrs Quilt
to Bentonbag
How tall
is her Maj that you knitted for LDNE? Annoyingly
I can't find the Broadstairs Morris Dancer pattern which is bigger and not so
fiddly. I knitted a trio of Tyne Bridge
- including you with long brown hair and a red bow in it. I knitted a lock of Kingsmen. I took the 1st one to a Practice and a variety
of them claimed it was himself. I
personalised the other 4 giving Andy a drooped round his ankle sock, the tall
Catalan Lad and I forget the others.
Bentonbag
to Mrs Quilt
About six
or seven inches.
As far as
I can remember she wasn't too fiddly.
*The Guardians
were actually made by Mr Quilt after I said “Oh these are lovely" then jokingly
"Pity they haven’t got The Guardian Crossword
to do together.”
It
was a very fiddly operation to get the paper to scale and readable, causing Mrs
Quilt to comment “You can go off people you know…”
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