 When I started High School one of the compulsory first form classes was craft which was an introduction to home science (cooking) and needlework, Rock Cakes are the only thing I remember from the cooking lessons but the needlework lessons I loved, the first thing that we made was a half slip, I still have the embroidery that I did on the front of it…I took needlework as an elective for the next 3 years and if I learnt nothing else at school I did learn to sew, a skill that I have used continually throughout the years since that first neelwork lesson in 1969.
When I showed this to a friend and then to my sister they both asked did I leave the ‘to’ out deliberately so that I could insert it in the school book fashion….answer is no, when I want the line of words to finish at the right hand side I embroider them backwards, for this line I started with the W of sew, when working backward I am careful to check the spelling of each word letter for letter as I go, what I didn’t check was that I was including all the words.
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