Rain, rain go away...

This weekend I decided I would paint my garden benches a lovely bay tree green, I opened my curtains this morning and instead of the sunny day I imagined, it was raining, dull and windy, so bang goes that idea.

I decided instead to finish off some embroidery. I love embroidery, I have been doing it for over 25 years. I am very lucky as I have a lot of my grandmother's embroidery transfers, needles, rings, thread, material, probably enough to carry on doing for the next 25 years.

I bought some Dorma pillowcases a couple of months ago and transferred some vintage violets on them.

The Dorma pillowcases are in a shade called Heather and I decided to embroider the flowers in different shades of purple-pink colours. I apologise as I know the thread is from DMC but it is vintage thread and they did not have the DMC colour numbers on them. The stems and leaves are a mixture of two different green colours, two threads of a medium green colour and one thread of a light green colour.

I have only used four different embroidery stitches for the pillowcases.

• French knot - for the centre of some of the flowers
• Stem stitch - for the flower stems
• Long and short stitch - for one of the main flowers (pink and purple middle flower)
• Satin stitch - for the rest of the flowers

The pillowcases do look a little bit crinkled but that is because I have had a hoop around the embroidery transfer, once they have been washed and ironed they will be completely flat and won't look crinkled/puckered.

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