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Congratulations on another grandchild! It must be lovely to see the quilt becoming an established item like that.

I'm just relieved it's made it through the washing machine! (the quilt, that is, not the grandchild...)

Wonderful news Karen - enjoy your new Granddaughter. I feel very lucky to have helped out and been so involved when my Grandchildren were born, and still fit, healthy and young enough to still be helping out with my Great-Granddaughter. She is so funny, she makes us laugh and keeps us on our toes. Enjoy yours - but make the most of it - time really does fly past! x

Delighted my first Module in the C&G patchwork course has passed. On to Module 2 now, tho I suspect there might be a slight delay as I haven't even thought about making the Christmas cards yet, or anything else much. Although yesterday I found the old recipe I had for my kids for making salt dough and the little grandson had a great time making the dough and rolling it out and cutting shapes for the Christmas tree (well, most of them were Easter chicks, rabbits and bunnies cos I don't have any Christmas cutters yet... Perhaps I could pretend the lambs are reindeer?)

Haven't crafted in months :(

Looking to start on the Christmas cards this pm ...

Good luck
Hope it goes well

I've made a start! at least, I have a lot of glitter everywhere.

Sounds like me lol

Ten gloves knitted for Christmas, two more started, last sleeve of cardigan half-done (that makes it sound as if it has many sleeves!), one bauble and a nisse to knit, and only half the Christmas cards made - and the glitter is all over me!

All sounds good Lexie but whatever's a nisse?

Oh! little Christmas gnomes, Norwegian (well, Scandinavian generally, I think). They're a bit mischievous and need to be pacified with gifts of food. I hope the knitted ones are less trouble! If I get it done I'll try to post a picture ...

How cute!!

Would love to see a pic when it's done!

Completed nisse on blog, www.murrayofletho.blogspot.co.uk - still can't work out how to post pictures here! Their coats can be any colour (often green) but their hats are usually red.

What a cutie!
Bet u get asked to make lots more

Well, they don't take long to do! I'm not keen on stitching faces, though.

And I mustn't get distracted - still eight gloves and a cardigan to finish in time to post!!

Lexie wrote: "And I mustn't get distracted - still eight gloves and a cardigan to finish in time to post!!"

Is that for a chilly octupus?

Of course - and he's always the hardest relative to shop for on my Christmas list. Why my cousin had to marry him I don't know - there was a perfectly nice overheated chameleon she dated for years.

LOL! You have an interesting family ;)

But very hard to knit for!

I've not done much crafting for a while - I just couldn't motivate myself. I was missing the annual craft get together that I went to for several years. It had started with a couple of dozen people and ended up with over a hundred people going. But due to the hotel that we used being taken over and updated - replacing the big rooms that we used with games rooms and gym etc - the last one was in 2013.
However a small group (just 5 of us) of us kept in touch and we organised our own little get together last week and enjoyed it so much that we have already started to organise two for next year.

sounds lovely Janet

That sounds good!

I am too tired to craft ar the moment. also have an issue with my arm so crafts won't happen soon

Does this go under craft or cooking?

http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/1...

they don't look very appetising!

Probably craft then.

If you can't slice it, it's not baking!

So my custard definitely qualifies!

Actually, my swiss roll doesn't - it's more something to break. Possibly with a toffee hammer.

Had a similar prob with this years stollen - think the yeast was out of date

I got stollen from Tesco a few weeks ago and it was dry and stale. What a disappointment.

I just read that as you got stolen from Tesco ...
Headline news!

They gave me back very quickly, as they realised what a mistake they had made ;)

Hehe

I went through a phase of aching hands during the menopause and gave up trying to crochet, but decided to give it another go now that I'm way past the problems. I found a half-completed doily, so decided to finish it. I'm on the last row now, with not much of a problem with my hands - other than using muscles to hold the tension of the thread, that I haven't used for a long time. I spread it out to see how big it was and took this photo.

That's lovely! I think I have a couple of those around that a relative did many years ago - never learned that one myself.

Lexie wrote: "That's lovely! I think I have a couple of those around that a relative did many years ago - never learned that one myself."

Lovely Flo, I used to do them, only got the odd photo of them now, gave them all away.

That's what I've done Pat. All my relatives and friends have got samples of my crochet - but I've never kept any for myself!!

Oh lol very heartily. I saw a notification about Pat's post (above) in my notifications as a post to "The Craft Thread" and thought it referred to the craft of writing so I clicked on it because I just posted today about language rules which we all know but don't know we know. It's a bit of a fun piece if you want to see it at www.joannaelm.com/language-rules
However, I did thoroughly love the photo above. I have many doilies (that's what I call them) like that which were gifts from my Polish aunt. I think crocheting is an amazing talent.

Thanks Joanna - really love the link! These rules that we know, without realising that we know them - are the sort that we pick up as a child when we are first learning to talk and also why we can never be quite as conversant in a language we learn later in life as we are in our home language. Brilliant stuff - pity our language centre in our brains, partially switches off by about the age of 7 - it would make life so much simpler if we kept this particular skill throughout our lives.
I had an example of this recently with a song I was playing on one of my CD's. It's called "One-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater". If there was one more comma in there - placed after the "purple" - it would mean that the "eater" was purple - and it wouldn't then refer to the colour of the people he ate! I love all the intricacies of language.

That was Barry Cryer wasn't it? I'm a big "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" Fan.

Hi T4bsF (Call me Flo) I too love all the intricacies of language. Your example of purple people eaters is particularly telling. But maybe not as telling as the shock I got on my first or second day at law school when we were handed a court decision that cost a law firm's client millions of dollars because an attorney at the firm misplaced a comma!!

Wow - at least my comma kept me safe in case the "eater" should ever land here...... as I'm NOT purple - he wouldn't be interested in me!!! Wadda mistake-a to make-a!

am still 'at it' on the City & Guilds course, patchwork & quilting. One more year to go... enjoying it though. Now got to design a wall hanging, which is why I'm here asking... does anyone know what you call the banner shaped edges... you have a row of them, used to see them on medieval horses - pic of one here -
http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/p...
I was thinking of doing a row along the bottom of the wallhanging but can't search for anything on pinterest if I don't know what it's called! Any ideas please?

Oh, I'm not sure - and I've done a bit of heraldry in my time. Are they not just shield shapes? I know I've been involved in a couple of shield shaped banners and they're difficult shapes to get right!

i thought of the word caparison but it seems that's the whole covering for the horse

Just looking at horse caparisons and found what I wanted! It's called horse barding. Never heard of it before but there are some lovely edges for inspiration!