Recent stitchings

It's only been four weeks or so since I took these photos, at stitching on our last Tuesday stitching night in Feb.

We missed Princess Eleri and Princess-Mother Pat who made the Poor Choice of not attending. We also missed Princess Rosie and Princess Jocelyne :( plom plom

Princess Alana is still hard at work on Prince Ed's jumper - it's definitely growing!
Princess Emily is getting close to finished on the sheepies for her quilt:
Princess Bek is making a lovely ladybird quilt for a friend's baby - here she is embroidering a design on one of her apPLIqued ladybirds:
Princess 2Cs started work on a stylish scarf/neck wrap, which we got to see completed the following week - quick work!
Princess Viv supervised...

and let Princess Kate help mend mini-Princess Megan's dress:
The following week at Princess Eleri's castle, Princess Kate was expertly assisted by Princess Eleri and feline consort Izzy in laying out the backing for mini-Princess Ember's quilt.

Royal Fun Run

Egad! I just noticed that there aren't pictures of the Fun Run we did in December! I'll fix that!
Princess Em, Princess Eleri and Princess Joce warming up before the run. Princess Joce had very little sleep, so bonus points to her!

Here, you see Princess Joce affixing a lovely knitted crown to Princess 2Cs divine head! Princess 2Cs knit the crowns herself and they looked FABULOUS!


Here you can see an action shot of Princess Alana--go, princess, go!


The running Princessi looking gorgeous:


And the beautiful run/walk Princessi, looking equally as gorgeous:
And all of us together on the winners' podium:

And the Princessi made headlines (ok, maybe not quite...) by winning the fancy dress competition! Next year we should add tutus!!

Wedding Dresses!

We went to the wedding last night, and it was beautiful. The ceremony was low-key and casual where it could be, and was very personalised. Including a moment of irony when the celebrant stated the 'law says marriage is between a man and a woman' part, given he has a male partner.

The bride and bridesmaid looked stunning. Aline's dress swirled out wonderfully in their dance, not just the skirt but the sleeves too - it looked amazing. received many compliments on their dresses. As did I...



They look better on the women themselves:

Wedding handbags

Here are the two handbags I made out of scraps (OK I bought the zip and the cord) to go with the wedding and bridesmaid's dresses. Both go with either dress, so they can fight over them!

A was really impressed that I'd made the bags, she'd only just thought of handbags in the last few days, and thought it was another job for her to do in this hectic week. She looks amazing in her dress, and is totally thrilled with it. The wedding is next Saturday...

Next question: what am I going to wear??

Round Robin borders

These are photo's from the blog of the lady in the Round Robin after me: here's what she's done...

My centre

And my first border

I really like the diamonds in the second one, but the poetry? Not my thing.

Stitching at Princess Bek's

Stitching was at the Palace of me, Princess Bek, aka Princess Rebekka-with-two-ks this week. Unfortunately, I'm very slack (and also, not 100% sure where my camera is) so no photos.

I can say that no-one did any stitching. We had icy-poles, watched the tennis (with the sound off) and the closest anyone got to being creative was Princess Kate designing part of a quilt (on paper) and Princess Eleri painting her fingernails.

Prince Casper (the pug)'s new trim waistline was admired by all.

It was very hot.

The end.

Booster seat

The nature strip gods and goddesses are smiling on Princess Bek yet again: as she was walking to Princess Eleri's castle for stitching on Tuesday, she passed an old brown vinyl car seat on the nature strip - just the exact sort I'd been looking out for. A bit grotty and worse for wear, but nothing a good scrub wouldn't... help...

So, a night's efforts, and check out the seat now:

Embie chose the fabric, and is one happy car seat girl now! Thanks Bek, and may the nature strip gods and goddesses continue to smile upon you :)