Stitching at Em's Palace

Stitching was at Princess Em's, with Princessi Alana, Em, Viv and Eleri in attendance from the start and Princess Kate arriving after watching Whathisface Almighty (mental blank).

We ate yummy hamburgers and raspberry friands for dessert (with white chocolate). also, Eleri snuck in some great caramel cupcakes. The recipe for the friands for anyone who wants them is:

1 C plain flour
1.5 C icing sugar
1 C ground almonds
5 egg whites
120g butter/marg
1 punnet fresh raspberries (I used lots of frozen)

Sift flour, icing sugar into bowl, stir in almonds.
Whisk egg whites until light and fluffy and fold into dry ingredients with melted butter. Fold through raspberries (and white chocolate...yum...). Put mixture in muffin cups.

Oven at 200Deg C, cooked for 20 minutes

On to the stitching...

Eleri was on the penultimate star. Yay!!!

Viv had a great pile of quilt squares.

I started my not so mustard coloured jumper sleeves.

Alana was working very industrially on Ed's jumper

and Kate was working on some very colourful socks.

Yay!!! It finally let me post piccies.

The art of Amigurumi!

I just finished my second piece of amigurumi and I love the way they turned out. I first made a rabbit who I am yet to name. I think his ears turned out real cute with all the different purples mixed in.



and here is a photo of bunny's behind to show off his cottontail:



I was so happy with the way he turned out and how quick and relatively easy he was to make that I started on my second amigurumi animal straight away. I bought some patterns off Etsy by one designer I really liked and I especially liked her bumblebee pattern so I made it.



I modified her a little by adding arms, legs and a stinger (what bumblebee is complete without a stinger?). She is closer to the true amigurumi style of having a larger head and facial features and smaller body and limbs. I'm not sure what I'll tackle next. I really should get back to Ed's jumper but crocheting is so much more fun and quicker! Here is a photo of my progress on Ed's jumper. As you can see there is still quite a bit to go.



Perhaps I'll make an amigurumi elephant instead!

Stitch and bitch chez Princess Bek

Much exciting stitching happened on Wednesday (I will post photos over the weekend as camera is at home!)

Let's see.

Princess Eleri-fairy finished ANOTHER star, there are now only five to go and I am getting extremely excited about having a lovely quilt, as I have always wanted one, and this particular one is more ace than I ever dreamed of having.

Princess Kate is also working on a quilt. There will be photos of a finished square thingy and also photos of cuttings out.

Princess Alana is making a v. cute animal with purple ears.

Princess Viv started knitting something that may be blue, or may be green, depending on who you think is right about the colour (I say aqua, personally).

Princess Em was sadly absent as she's bushwalking and apparently has insane blisters.

Princess Me was busy cooking about eleventeen different courses, but I did get some more rag rug braided.

We ate cauliflower and carrot soup to start, followed by roasted vegetables (eggplant, zucchini, onion, tomato and garlic) for the vegan Princess Kate, and roasted vegetables with lamb skewers (baa) for the non-vegan Princessi. If Princess Em had been coming I would have done the eggplant separately.

I didn't do dessert, which, lucky, as we may have all exploded if I did.

Photos coming soon.