Keith's Ramblings

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Move over Bayeux Tapestry, it’s my turn to create a work of art. In a thousand years time people will be queuing at The British Museum to see my creation! And by the way, you are an embroidery, you can’t even get your name right.

I have a roll of canvas seventy-one metres long, one metre longer than you, and threads of many colours. I’ll create a walk through a fantasy forest, there’ll be sunlight filtering through trees, mossy stumps and tufts of grass. Peacocks with gaudy feather plumes, water flowing through cracks in rocks and nymphs wearing ruffle gowns. There’ll be Spring flowers one end and a layer of snow at the other.

I guess it’s time to get stitching. Threading this needle isn’t easy, why do they make the eye hole so small? Right, here we go!

Ouch! I pricked my finger. Oh no, there’s a blood stain. Actually it’s quite pretty, it looks like a poppy! I wish I’d bought a thimble. I know, I’ll use a bottle cap! No, that doesn’t work.

Perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea after all, but what else can I do with seventy-one metres of canvas? Got it, I’ll make thirty-five and a half sacks, keep the one with the pretty poppy and sell the rest!

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Incase you are unaware – the Bayeux Tapestry is almost 1000 years old and a few days ago it was moved from France to the British Museum in London. It depicts the Norman invasion of England in 1066 which took place very close to where I live! If you’re interested to learn more, pop over here – https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/bayeux-tapestry
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Thanks to Brenda for hosting The Sunday Whirl where this week’s given words are – plumes tufts mosses fantasy fabric filtering threads forest cracks layer ruffle flow(ing)