Glad I ran out of time!!

You can see from the cardboard cut out of Prince William that the pattern was of his regular RAF uniform but he wore a red uniform, so I am glad I ran out of time. I can knit him now in the correct uniform!

Kate is finished!!

Here she is finished!! Her hair is a bit weird but I know she will look a lot better is real life but it has been fun making her. Had I had more time I would have gone all out with the glitter but this will have to do as the wedding is only hours away and I want to give her to my sister in law before it is all over.

Royal Wedding

My sister in law is a keen royalist and very excited about the royal wedding. So I thought I would make her a Kate Middleton as the pattern was in a local magazine. Here she is before she was finished.

One not to eat!!!

Don't you reckon this looks like a mushroom that Alice of 'Alice in Wonderland' might have tried?? I guess the look of them should warn you that they aren't really edible. However, there were some purple ones out there in the forest that looked lethal to me but are apparently quite delicious.....................go figure!!!

Knitting & Fungi

Yesterday I spent the day in Daylesford at a 'Fungi Workshop' run by Alison Pouliot, a local fungi expert. It was a great day which included a field trip to a native eucalypt forest and an 'exotic' pine forest. I couldn't get over the vast number of fungi and the variation in type etc. We do have edible fungi but we seem to have more poisonous ones. I can not say that i would be super confident in my ability to recognise and select 'safe' fungi. I have only done a small amount of sewing but I have all but finished my knitted vest, I just have to sew it all together. Now all I need to do is focus in the quilt bindings........................

Binding......work for Easter

These are 4 of the 5 quilts I need to bind. Actually I have 2 more but they are not so high up on the priority listing. They don't look too flash here but they will when you see them finished! I love doing the hand sewing but I really procrastinate over sewing the bindings on with the machine. Anyway, I thought that Easter was a good time to focus on finishing some things. My plan is to try to get the bindings sewn on today and then spend Easter doing the hand sewing. It remains to be seen. I figure if I make a public committment on my blog then I am more likely to be focussed on actually doing it!! I will keep you posted.

Gracie the Wonder Cat!

Here is our Gracie, the 19 year old tabby cat after she has been at the vet's to have her matted coat brushed under a mild anaesthetic. She looks absolutely fabulous and it is clear she feels 100% better. She is a bit of a warrior cat, feisty with quite challenging behaviour but today she even let me pat her and brush her coat. Hopefully she will start to groom herself again so we don't have the oldest Rastafarian Cat in the neighbourhood!