I'd never heard of a Simnel cake---it looks and sounds amazing (and you take such gorgeous photos, too).

I've been wanting to try a bit of embroidery recently, so your sampler is all inspiring and happy-making to me. :) I love all the colours and shapes.

Oh gosh, the perils of being Someone Who Can Sew! I can't sew, myself, but my mom is an excellent seamstress and is always getting asked to do things like this, and complies with varying levels of enthusiasm. I hope your week of mending and altering goes quickly and well. :)

I think my eyes bugged out a little when the first photo loaded on my screen---what a gorgeous pattern! I love the delicate complexity of it. Also, beads on socks sound like a terrible idea to me, and yours look smashing without. I'm glad you kept on with (and ended up loving) them despite your reservations about the yarn, because the colour looks awesome with the pattern, in the end. (And the night-sky colour totally works with the pattern name, too. I like stuff like that.)
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