Crafty Day
Sunday we had a crafty day at our house, which had a goodly turnout including two new people. We were busy and there was much food and fun and laughter and I got much of the downstairs of the house tidied and vacuumed (a big benefit of crafty day hosting is it makes me do these things) and it was all good.
Teddy wound balls of wool on his torture antenna, sewed some more of the never ending gingham doll dresses and stuck some more orange hair into a doll's head (as well as leaving the inevitable puddle of orange hair on my kitchen floor, that made me wonder what it was in an 'ew, that looks worrying' fashion until my memory caught up with me).
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Janet repaired a pair of trousers and then did some embroidery and some cross stitch.
Alice knitted another square from her partwork magazine/kit and swore she was going to give the blanket to charity when she's done.
Jane put more natural looking hair into a (Disney?) doll head, which looked very innocent until she turned the doll around so you could see the big hole in the skull she was working through.
Barbara did lace making, which is very impressive but does my head in.
Flick made Christmas things which I didn't get any pics of because she had to leave before pic taking happened.
A2 did some colouring and had the help of the lounge contingent in practicing her spellings and word meanings for English.
Rachel repaired some tops and sewed up the sides of a fleece she picked up in a charity shop to give the garment a better outline (also missing the pic taking, which is a neat trick since she hadn't left).
And I did some tie dye (all right, quite a bit of tie dye, because I had dye left after the t-shirts so was able to also do the bags and socks) and crocheted another row or two on my blanket of doom, and finally got the castle bed up on eBay with the assistance of the much more eBay-experienced Alice.
Rob and John kibitzed and socialised and helped us to keep the EC food mountain under control.
Teddy wound balls of wool on his torture antenna, sewed some more of the never ending gingham doll dresses and stuck some more orange hair into a doll's head (as well as leaving the inevitable puddle of orange hair on my kitchen floor, that made me wonder what it was in an 'ew, that looks worrying' fashion until my memory caught up with me).
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Janet repaired a pair of trousers and then did some embroidery and some cross stitch.
Alice knitted another square from her partwork magazine/kit and swore she was going to give the blanket to charity when she's done.
Jane put more natural looking hair into a (Disney?) doll head, which looked very innocent until she turned the doll around so you could see the big hole in the skull she was working through.
Barbara did lace making, which is very impressive but does my head in.
Flick made Christmas things which I didn't get any pics of because she had to leave before pic taking happened.
A2 did some colouring and had the help of the lounge contingent in practicing her spellings and word meanings for English.
Rachel repaired some tops and sewed up the sides of a fleece she picked up in a charity shop to give the garment a better outline (also missing the pic taking, which is a neat trick since she hadn't left).
And I did some tie dye (all right, quite a bit of tie dye, because I had dye left after the t-shirts so was able to also do the bags and socks) and crocheted another row or two on my blanket of doom, and finally got the castle bed up on eBay with the assistance of the much more eBay-experienced Alice.
Rob and John kibitzed and socialised and helped us to keep the EC food mountain under control.