Well my finished memorial patch is far from perfect but I’m still rather pleased with it and it’s pretty close to what I had in mind. I’ve added my initials and the date (thanks Jill and Caroline for the suggestion) and it might need a few more stitches to hold it in place but I’ll take it for a test snuggle first.

Thanks for all the kind comments about it on the previous posts. And to those of you who asked, all I did was type up the text on the computer and fiddle about with placement and fonts. I printed it out (black text on white paper), pinned to an old linen dinner napkin, held it up to the window and traced the letters with a coloured pencil. Then I stitched (back stitch I think). Pretty low tech stuff!

Anyway, I’ve really enjoyed my small foray into stitching but I’ll not be giving up my day job! Now, I’m off to resume my knitting and rest my poor throat before the children get home (I’ve got a nasty throat infection from the cold of last week) a nice cup of tea wouldn’t go amiss either!

After two false starts thanks to indecision about typefaces and inexperience with thread thickness I now feel that I'm getting somewhere.

Now I'm off to find somewhere bright to stitch, so I don't end up with a squint!