We had a pleasant stroll over to the restaurant yesterday evening, and we sat at a table in the window, just where the sandwich board is
I managed to take a quick snap of the interior before it got busy
toasting the birthday boy
if we had known how generous the portions were for the main course, we wouldn't have ordered starters - for Malcolm Canarian potatoes with a trio of dips
and for me sizzling garlic mushrooms
for my main course I chose a trio of tapas - chicken paella, lamb meatballs and patatas bravas
Malcolm had decided to order something from the specials board - lobster paella. He expected to get a dish of paella with pieces of lobster mixed through it. WRONG! This is what he got!
a magnificent whole lobster, which took him quite some time to eat. When he had eventually extracted the last morsels from the claws, he went off to wash his hands. I promptly had a word with the waitress, and asked if she had any candles that she could pop on a cake. After a bit of a search, she found some and went through to the kitchen with the candles and a large piece of cake. When Malcolm sat back down at the table, he was somewhat surprised when she put this in front of him
it was a wonderful meal, the service was excellent, and we shall certainly go there again. And now for some sewing! I have prepped the other two Christmas stitcheries
and I have done more stitching on the first one
on Tuesday, after playing with my new rulers, I got on with some prep for the Father Christmas class. I wanted to check that I had got all the measurements right for the fabric that will be included in the kit, so I assembled the fabrics and the fusible web, on which I had already drawn out the pattern pieces. This shows the first piece stuck to the wrong side of the fabric
but instead of using my usual fusible web, I am using double stick web. It is tacky, and sticks to the fabric without ironing. You can see the web of adhesive on the fabric
once the piece is cut out and the backing paper removed, this side is tacky as well, and sticks to the background fabric without ironing - you can see here that is didn't fall off when I picked it ip
but it can be peeled off if it needs to be repositioned
I laid the backgrond fabric over the pattern sheet
and started buiding up the pieces
once they are all in place they will be ironed, which will fuse them permanently
to finish, one last photo from yesterday evening - do you like the candles on Malcolm's cake?!