21st of November 2019

Three HappyThings

1. I scored 82 as my opening score in Scrabble. I used all of my letters and the computer accepted  'wilding' :)
2. I had a productive day at home. Bottomed the bathroom, hoovered downstairs, hand washing accomplished, ironing done and an hours needlepoint and relaxation this afternoon.

I do wonder how long it will take me to finish this. Since resurrecting it several weeks ago I gave almost finished the sky. It was tedious, an area of large blocks of colour, but it felt good to be working on it again. It's one of two canvases I that I bought over twenty years ago from a shop in Ashton which closed long ago. I thought I'd work them when I retired, but familiarity bred contempt and somehow I lost my interest and enthusiasm.

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A wool gyr Falcon is surely something of an oxymoron anyway. Maybe that dulled my interest?. Falcons are not at all woolly. Quite the opposite in fact, swift as arrows in flight and with talons like steel wire. And little skill is involved in creating this needlepoint. The canvas is pre-printed and simple tent stitch is the only one used. But the colours are lovely, and gyr falcons are magnificent birds so perhaps  will finish this and it will be just a little homage to them - and also a  homage to Antonia Forest who first piqued my interest in all birds of prey.

I don't have a use for it and planned to Charity Shop it, but why shouldn't we do things purely for the pleasure of doing them. Does everything have to be useful? Minimalists miss a lot of pleasure in life I think. Or maybe not. So I will stitch as long as it gives me the pleasure I'm currently experiencing. It is good to feel pleasure in doing something just for myself again.