Not Sure.

It has been a wild and stormy day with an icy northerly wind that blew clumps of foam across the garden. There were sunny spells in the morning then by the afternoon we lost the sun and the showers got even heavier. 

I thought about wrapping up and going for a beach walk in the morning but the tide was in and I would have had to walk over the shingle which doesn't make for a very comfortable walk.

Instead I spent the day sewing. I began by reducing the size of the cushion cover I had bought for £1.50 yesterday. I'd been looking for zips in the haberdashery areas of the charity shops but when I found the cushion cover I thought it would save time to just make a patchwork square to sew on the front.

Being someone who notices if any corners or joins are not exactly right but at the same time is unable to do things neatly made this project a major challenge. I cut templates, used a ruler and tailor's chalk and still there was an awful lot of unpicking to be done. 

And then when I laid the square on top of the grey cushion I wasn't even sure if I liked the result. Greys are very hard to put together as each grey can have tones of browns, blues or greens which don't always go together.

Pete thinks it looks okay so what I'll probably do is hand sew the square onto the cushion cover and then if I still don't like it I can simply turn the cushion over.

Thinking about shopping in charity shops made me wonder why they don't promote the recycling aspect more. If we all bought fewer new items and instead bought second-hand items which might have ended up being thrown away it would as they say - help the planet.