TP219: Somewhat worse for wear

Carmi's theme for this week is "Somewhat worse for wear". It took me a while to think about what to depict, as I didn't want to put something on here that was just old and sad looking...

It's possible all my readers will think this cushion is somewhat old and sad- but for me it is a most treasured possession. When I was about nine years old we got to do some craft at school, over a period of about ten weeks. The girls got to make a cushion with cross-stitch and the boys got taught how to knit a jersey! It took many weeks to do all the cross-stitch for the front of this cushion.

Then my mother found a piece of fabric I absolutely loved for the back of it. It was a delicate light green and I thought it was really pretty. She sewed it onto the front I'd made, and then made an inner with stuffing. I was in heaven with my precious finished cushion!

 As you can see, the material on the back of the cushion is now very much 'worse for wear'. I have thought about replacing the back, and tidying it all up. But then I decided quite firmly against doing that: the way it is, it holds very special memories of my mother.

And just to finish off- from the garden this afternoon when the sun finally emerged a little- here is a 'somewhat worse for wear' spider web on some 'somewhat worse for wear' flax leaves. They look as if they were made for each other...