Hello Mr Big Ears

Tonight Part 2 of the Noddy Bag.

Mr Big Ears striped T shirt stretches widely over his fat tummy.   His blue jacket certainly doesn't do up!  And what sort of stylist puts the nautical upper half with green and yellow striped trousers?

Present day illustrators of childrens books would never think of this colour scheme.   Or would they?

I'm off to enjoy a date with Anthony Horowitz and Trigger Mortis.   My request for this book from the local library has been a long wait,  but today I came to the top of the list and have two weeks to read and return.

Good night.

Bye Bye Little Noddy

The HD3QBEM has requested some assistance with her knitting, so this afternoon I pressed the accelerator and finished the stitching on Little Noddy.

My small Lego Noddy is beside him for comparison.   Quite a faithful representation n'est-ce pas?

I'm off to a date with the Antiques Road Show now.   See you tomorrow, with hopefully a start on Big Ears.

The very hungry caterpillar

A couple  of weeks ago I planted some flower plants in the pots on my deck.   Very soon they were attacked.   Ah, slugs!  Or so I thought,   But slug and snail bait had no impact.  Still my poor plant looked pathetic.

So armed with a flashlight I went out one night and found the culprit.

And now The Very Hungry Caterpillar is no longer :-)

As hard as diamonds...?

Today has been a hard hard day.  
A power cut over night cut off the CCTV security cameras at work on the very day when visiting offenders decided to play up!
The same power cut caused a fuse to blow in the air conditioning control panel, so the temperature got hot and the tempers hotter still.
A roof top water tank linked to said malfunctioning air conditioner leaked and the sky fell in.   Well to be honest, it was actually ceiling tiles which turned to mush and collapsed downward.
Eventually the water found its desired home in another circuit board and turned off half the computers and the telephone system.
But, did we go home?   No way.   Our client base never sleep or become inactive and thus neither shall The Department.
So what can I say?   Thank the Lord I was wearing cotton and not man made fibres!  I am quite sure Pollyanna would not have been so selfish as I was in inwardly thanking the Lord that it was not my computer that was affected.   I managed to leave my desk clean, all necessary tasks done and an empty To Do List for Monday while still getting out the door at 5pm.   Not bad?!

Anyway, I am in no mood for Noddy tonight so made a refrigerator cake, set the fruit mixture to steep in tea so I can bake a fruit loaf for the HD3QBEM tomorrow morning, and started another diamond.   Hardanger is guaranteed to ease my stress.

Little Noddy no-hands

Another progress report.   Are you sick of Noddy?   I am.  

But I am determined to finish this side of the tote bag before I put him away and give myself a break from half stitches.   So there are two hands, an M on the block Noddy is holding and then the cream colour of the block.   Tomorrow night should finish this piece and I swear you will hear the happy dance all the way to Norwich!!

Little Noddy two Shoes

While he is not fully complete yet, Noddy is certainly more recognisable now with his red shoes and their big blue bows.

Tomorrow night will have to be top stitching I think, unless I succumb to hardanger fever and pick up the diamonds again.

Noddy's progress

Tonight I am stitching on Noddy.   He is looking more like the illustration from the book and eventually should look very handsome on one side of the tote bag.

Why he has orange cheeks I do not know but I have followed the chart faithfully so it must be right??  The pleasure in this stitching is not from the chart -  too many half stitches -  but from the nostalgia factor.   So I'm off now to my needle and my rose tinted memories.