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Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden
Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden

In the interests of fun, clothes that fit, and doing things that help me relax, I have bought 4 metres of needle cord cotton and plan to make this pattern. I need work clothes and can so rarely find things that fit. I will try to toot my progress as I can. Excited about this project. I will endeavour to use every scrap of the fabric as I very rarely buy new. #sewing

A simplicity sewing pattern for a jacket, waistcoat and trousers lying on top of some fawn needle cord fabric with thread, a zipper and some fusible interfacing showing. It is all sitting on a green cutting mat.
Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden

#SilentSunday

Bands of sunlight on a wood effect laminate floor cast by blinds behind a net curtain.
Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden

I’m struck, on holiday in France, how quiet we are. The OH and I enjoy each other’s company and make gentle remarks to each other from time to time. So many people talk pretty much incessantly and very loudly. The hôtel we stayed in, in London, our neighbours talked incredibly loudly until after midnight and started again at 06:15…. Yesterday at dinner in Paris the young couple sitting next to us talked (well he talked) incessantly and loudly about himself, his work, what he wanted to see and do in Paris. They had arrived that day and seemed to be leaving the next. There was less than 5 inches between the tables so all we could do was listen, and we eventually resorted to texting each other. On the TGV this morning was a woman on the phone: loud, rapid talking which was heard pretty much throughout the carriage. These different instances were all different genders, ages and nationalities but none seemed to have the ability to modify their volume or tone because they were in shared public spaces. I feel very rural and small in contrast.

Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden

This is what happens when, gardening nude, one is overtaken by a surfeit of dahlias. #Paris #BloomScrolling

A statue of a woman leaning to one side with her head in her hands her plinth is surrounded by a traditional park bedding array of dahlias among other flowers. The grass is cut short and there are trees in the background.
Janet
@Janet_52square@sunny.garden

I finished my #RoomBox. It is a one twelfth scale hallway. I knitted the shawl, made the coat, scarf, hat and gloves and made the box. I wired the light using a Christmas light. This was to provide a scene for the furniture which was rescued for me by @suearcher@toot.wales from a charity sale. #Miniatures #No52

A miniature scene depicting an entrance hallway with a wooden bench, a hat rack with a coat and a scarf, and a light fixture. The walls are decorated with floral patterns in the Glasgow style. The same miniature hallway scene from above, with a wooden bench, a hat on a stand, gloves, a walking cane, a coat white scarf and blue shawl.