There's a hole in my fabric! (dear Liza)

Just thought I'd share the awful hole I found as I unfolded my fabric to start cutting the other day:

Luckily I could fit the pieces around the hole:

The supervisor helped me cut out by settling in on the warm soft fuzzy fleece. You could call him a pattern weight, I suppose, but I don't usually use such heavy ones He finally moved when I got too close to his tail with my big scissors!

Knitting projects

I've finally finished the 12-pointed knitted ball (pattern here) that was sent around a while ago. I followed the pattern to the letter, even though I questioned one step. I don't think my points are as pointy as the picture on the pattern (so if any of you try it, put another four rows of plain in before the final decrease). *sigh* My points are rounder than they should be, and what with my choice of coloured yarn, they look like breasts. Great!

So, behold the Booby-Ball.

The other knitting project I've had on the go was the baby jumper made from lovely soft bamboo/cotton yarn. It's lovely to knit with, however as always I hated sewing it up. Well, my high school friend's baby has arrived - a boy called Henry - and so I've had incentive to finish the damn thing. All done, packed and posted :) Phew.


Last night I started a pair of glittens for me. Yay for warm fingers, but being able to turn pages in rehearsals :)

We won't mention the socks I'm knitting...

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.