The Day of Stitch

Last Saturday (5 August) was the Day of Stitch. A small group of diehards from Manchester Embroiderers’ Guild met and stitched in a beautiful garden in Didsbury. Of course, afterwards we popped off to the pub where some of us continued stitching over lunch. Some lovely work was being done, but what really took my eye was the way the scampi and chips were served. The scampi came in little metal buckets lined with printed gresproof paper. Although I didn’t actually have the scampi, guess who went home with two of the papers, muttering ‘I wonder if it will take dye’.