Review of "The Letters of Emily Dickinson 1845-1886 by Emily Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd

This was the first Emily Dickinson book I have borrowed from the library, but it is oddly written as the book was made by automating the typing, proof reading and design using Optical Character Recognition software on scanned copies of the original rare book. Consequently I have found it really hard to read as there are lots of mistakes and missing bits. It was hard to achieve continuity of the text becasue of this, so I have to say that I unfortunately abandoned reading it except for snatches here and there which were more legible.

Good luck if you attempt this one!

now to find some of her poetry!!

Ive also started "Afternoons with Emily" by Rose MacMurray, this was her only novel, which her children published posthumously after she died unexpectedly in 1997, how sad.

April WIPocalypse

Here at last are my progress pictures for the WIPocalypse:

Firstly my Sticklounge group piece by Luv2Stitch, I am keeping up which is great.

Secondly my Beds bobbin lace piece which has increased in size, and isn't too hard once I had prepared the 80 bobbins! If you look closely you can see the tiny "picots" in the centre a few rows down. They will be more obvious once all the pins are removed.

And lastly a picture of the Mill Hill kit I've started recently, today I added the last beads. Next I need to stitch the cuff and then do the finishing, so most of it is done.

The reindeers are cute aren't they, I couldnt stop till I'd added the antlers, eyes and noses!