What a busy time I've been having, both at home and at work.

I'm having a new kitchen installed and there's dust everywhere so we are trying to limit the amount of rooms we need to go in. The easiest thing is for us all to stay in the lounge for most of the evening. My husband can watch the TV to his heart's content and I've managed to really steam ahead with my latest cross stitch project. I'm stitching an adorable design from Faye Whittaker's book  ‘All Our Yesterdays Cross Stitch Collection' (UK edition). To see the design I am stitching see our group's gallery. It reminds me of when I was young when my dad and my uncle made a swing outside our beach hut for my cousin and me. I'm going to use it to cover a photo album and give it to my mum for her birthday. The only thing I'm not looking forward to is doing the French knots. Does anyone else struggle with them too or does anyone have an easy way of doing them?