An embroidery story for you. During WW2 Lincolnshire was known as Bomber County and local engineering companies changed to making munitions. One of them made gun turrets for Lancaster Bombers and the wife of the managing director wanted to do her bit for the war effort. She invited airmen (and visiting top brass) into her home. She gave them a bit of peace and a meal and asked each of them to sign her tablecloth. She then stem stitched over the signatures, rather badly. They include Guy Gibson and many of the other crews who flew in the Dambuster raid. At the end of the war the cloth was only 3/4 full, and remains so to this day. It is in store at the moment awaiting the opening of a new museum. The photograph below is an old one from a local newspaper, taken after Mike and I wrote a song about he cloth. We are much younger than that now! LOL