from the sewing room window - 31 Jan - and a catch up post

First of all the "from the sewing room window" photo for today.



And a few things I've been doing in the last few days:

Baking custard creams - yummmmmmmmy!



After filling with butter icing - even yummmmmmmier!



Rosie investigating "her" cupboard -



She manages to get herself a chewstick - that's the tan-coloured stick pointing downwards from her mouth. :oD



And we gave her a bath yesterday - poor wee thing.





Telling her Dad that Mum had been bad to her!



She smells a lot better now so it was worth it! :oD

Happy Burns' Night

If you're Scottish, you might have had haggis & neeps for tea tonight to celebrate the birthday of our national poet, Robert Burns - aka Rabbie Burns. We did. :o)

As usual, Google came up with a cracker of a header to mark the occasion. I even managed to grab the explanation in my screenshot! :oD

from the sewing room window - 25 Jan

cruets and measures

This morning I took a few photos of my newest cruet sets. They always make me smile.

I got these cows from Santa - aka Joanna.



The hearts on their sides make them even more adorable.



I got this set last weekend in a sale. Douglas isn't offended by the wording on "his" one - probably because it's (slightly) true.



Joanna saw these the other day and got them for me because she knew I'd like them. She was wrong - I LOVE them!



And this is a set of Matryoshka dollies that I got last year.



They're not salts and peppers but measuring cups. I'll never use them for that purpose, though. They're too gorgeous to use!

oh my goodness - I am a genius! :oD

Yesterday when I was at the shops, I saw a bag that was in the shape of a triangular pyramid. If the bag had just been a bag, I might have bought it just to see how it was made but there was something inside the bag - no idea what because I didn't look, I was only interested in the bag! LOL - and I didn't want to spend £10 for something I didn't want.

I stood and looked at the bag for a wee while and came away thinking "I could make that myself". So I did.

I probably should have waited until daylight to photo the bag but I couldn't wait to show it off! :oD





I didn't notice the thread inside the bag until I saw it in the photo! LOL



I am sooooooo chuffed with this bag I just know I'm going to be making many, many more of them. :o)

from the sewing room window - 17 Jan

I LOVE how I caught the movement of the train in today's photo. It's heading north to Dundee and/or Aberdeen. :o)

baking

I did some baking last weekend. Needless to say, it's all been eaten but I didn't post the photos so I'll post them now.

These are the Barefoot Contessa's chocolate chip cookies. Actually, they turned out so big that I think a better name for them would be Chocolate Chip Frisbees! :oD



Delish!

from the sewing room window - 10 Jan

watch straps and a cover for an old stool

Joanna gave me a watch face for my Christmas and various ribbons to put on the watch face as watch straps. I wore the watch on a couple of occasions with the ribbon just tied around my wrist but I was a bit worried that the knot would untie itself and I'd lose the watch.

So I decided to use some velcro to fasten the ribbons. I tried with a piece of ribbon I had in my ribbon box first in case it didn't work. I used full width velcro - about 1.5cm (5/8") but that made it just a wee bit hard to get the ribbon threaded through the sprongs of the watch face. (I'm sure sprong is not a word but it'll do for now! LOL)

I decided to halve the width of the velcro and that worked beautifully. I used a narrow zigzag stitch to attach the velcro as the thread tended to get eaten by the hook side of the velcro if I sewed it with a straight stitch.

Anyway, I spent this afternoon sewing all the ribbons that came with the watch:



And a few more from my ribbon box:



I then turned my attention to an old stool which badly needed a new cover. I didn't take a before photo - believe me, it was bad - but here's the after:



A good afternoon's work if I do say so myself. :o)

kindle cover

Joanna took some photos of the cover I made for her Kindle. It's not perfect by any means - and I will probably make another one soon - but she's happy with it and it does exactly what she wanted.

Closed - the Kindle is inside:



The flap closes with velcro:



It's a nice fit:



Showing the pocket on the back - I don't like that tuck!:



The Kindle in the back pocket:



Easy to hold for reading: