Here I am a bit late posting my WIPocalypse things.  Firstly my Sticklounge piece, Tribute to Ackworth by Luv2Stitch!!

Isn't it a great pattern? Just loving stitching it.

Only a few stitches on my LongDogs The Token, and I did add many beads on my Mill Hill stocking, but no photos of these until I've done a bit more.

BUT, I finally started a Bedfordshire lace piece which has 40 pairs of bobbins (yikes 80 bobbins!! more than I think I've ever used before). To stop them getting muddled up, I'm using a few stitch holders but I must say its a bit cumbersome putting them on and off the holders. Nevertheless you get the idea, its a very small piece LOL!!

I'll do a closeup of the actual work later when I get a bit further on.

Anyway, I was in a bit of a lace slump, so I'm really glad that I got it started.

Review of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

I started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson in February, I found an illustrated edition with pictures by one of our famous Australians, Robert Ingpen. What a wonderful edition, I had never read it before (Ingpen actually states in his dedication that it was written for boys, starting with Stevenson's step-son Lloyd Osbourne in 1883), but I do like nautical books loving the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian, and Hornblower, and I also enjoyed Treasure Island. Interestingly it was quite more descriptive of people being killed than I would have thought, I would have thought some bits would have been a bit too violent for small boys, specially in the late 1800s!! And I wonder if poor Jim was missed badly by his mother!!

All in all a great read, with lavish illustrations. Robert Ingpen writes that "The early chapters of Treasure Island remain the most compelling reading in adventure literature. It is often said by experts in literature for children that if a child can read and feel the drama of the happenings at the "Admiral Benbow" Inn as imagined by Stevenson, then they will be readers forever." What a great comment!!