Cake, Catch-up, Frustration and Other Things.....

It has taken me nearly two hours to upload all my images! And three hours to do this blog it has crashed twice! I am quite glad it somehow saves what you have done. So I am very frustrated, the phone has rung at least six times, but despite everything I did manage to multitask while doing so. In the days since finishing the quilt for Denise, I have been catching up on the little tasks that I keep putting to one side to do later. You know mending etc.

I have put the bells back onto the Alex's Christmas socks.

Now they can be put away for the next ten months

Repaired this necklace for one of the customers in the shop

I'm still waiting for the the lady to collect.

Restrung these for another customer The red beads are a nut of some kind and when they are stacked on to of one another they make the nut the large black beads are a seed of some kind. The necklace itself is very very light and very fascinating wondering what the seeds are.

Darned Alex's jumper.

There were fours holes in all I hope the moth

had indigestion after eating this!

Made up these cards for shop display

As you see I am not much of a paper crafter

give me a needle and thread and material any day!

While I was waiting for the pictures to upload I extended my husbands pockets in his trousers I made a bit of a mess of them so now I have to reinforce them with some hand sewing. Why can't they make trouser pockets deeper! Now the "cleaning lady" loses out of the few pennies found down the side of the chair ;~( !

About eighteen months ago I repaired this

the same lady came into the shop with this

hoping I can do something

with it - her dog chewed it........

After making Caitlin's blanket I thought we would like one.

I thought I would do it in the Ripple Pattern which seems quite popular.

I kept doing it wrong but eventually got it sussed!

The pattern can be found here

I have used King Cole "Splash"

756 Summer Fruits, 811 Apricot, 812 Lemon & Lime

I want to finish this and stitch all the clothing and hair

securely to the doll before tomorrow

as Caitlin's daddy is staying overnight.

I gave these as presents for Christmas, I thought they were a present that will last for a while after Christmas and brighten up dull days, well..........I only planted my at the end of January because I forgot it, this is what it should look like by now!

Now I have caught up I am going to try and get some more of these done! Oh and while I was multitasking I made one of these, but cannot eat it till tomorrow!

Do you share our sense of humour and

find this article very funny?

Alex and I did!