Recent activities in Gondwanaland

I hosted another small group last week, with just Princessi Rosie, Eleri, Viv and myself in attendance. I think we ate just about enough for the entire group, what with all the yummy pasta salad (mmm, avocadoes and cherry tomatoes) and apple crumble we consumed.

After rolling into the lounge room to stitch, Princess Viv "show-and-tell"ed her recent creations:
The Christmas tree with corny advent jokes.

Christmas stockings for Princess Viv's mini prince and princesses, with hand felted designs on them

And a lovely shimmery set of wings, modelled here by the Eleri-fairy (couldn't help it!! Sorry).

Then Princess Viv studiously worked on her Christmas wall hanging, cutting out the backing and laying out the applique stars for ironing on.

Princess Eleri unfortunately had to come straight from work, so was without stitching for the evening. Luckily Princess Rosie had a job for her and set her to work starting to knit stripy triangles to make into a scarf for her brother.

Meanwhile brave Princess Rosie overcame her fears and sewed in the zipper on Prince Brian's sweater. I've sent her some photos for a blog entry all of its own.

I'd hurt my back that morning so I wasn't really up for much stitching, so I just sat around and helped Princess Rosie use my ancient sewing machine. I did show off the dresses I'd made for my girls to wear to their grandfather's 70th birthday party.

Round Robin Border 1

I seem to be the only one posting here... oh well :(

I thought I'd post a picture of the Round Robin block I've been working on. I brought it along a couple of weeks ago to get some inspiration for what to do with it - I was really struggling with its lack of contrast and excessive pink-ness. Anyway, here's what I did:


I aimed to frame and feature the pink centre without dominating it with my darker fabrics (I also wanted to use something from my stash rather than go out and purchase yet more fabric!).