Ladies of Letters

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…”