After yesterday's tiny wren in the back garden, this morning brought a VERY large pigeon in the front garden
I thought that I ought to get the Christmas cake iced, so I assembled everything I needed - or I thought I had, because I forgot the pastry brush .........
........ for brushing the warmed jam over the the cake
I used to make my own icing, but I have to admit to being lazy these days and using icing that is not just ready made, but ready rolled! I have mentioned before that I don't like marzipan, so I put marzipan fruits on the cake for Malcolm
this afternoon I finished handstitching the binding to the back of the baby quilt - all it needs now is a label
yesterday afternoon after working on the baby quilt, I made some progress with the oven gloves. I cut the inner and outer fabrics and the heat reflective wadding to size
did you notice the spotty fabric on the end of the penguin fabric? I didn't have quite enough of the penguin fabric, so I added in a bit of spotty fabric, left over from the baby quilt. It won't show on he finished oven gloves. I marked the first of the quilting lines
and soon had the quilting done - there is something quite soothing about quilting lots of straight lines
next I quilted the two smaller pieces which will form the pockets at either end
I have still to round the ends, then stitch on the binding, which I have made. Hopefully I will get the oven gloves finished in time for Stuart and Alison visiting at the weekend ..... and they will be told that they had better not burn holes in these ones!!
I'll be back tomorrow with a review of an excellent (and fun) knitting book.