The gallery - Education

Ok, Todays theme at the gallery is education, so for your amusement i have provided you with a piccy of me and my school chums (ages about 14), my graduation from sheffiled university (BSc Hons in Anatomy and cell biology) and my Graduation from Birmingham university (PhD in Oral immunology).
Only thing missing is a primary school pic! but think this one of my lad covers cute kids in uniform (his first day at school!)!

me in the dress

Hi all,
 i've been away (as you can tell from the lack of irrelevent wafflings being posted here!)
I was in san diego for work, nice but a long way to go for just 5 days!

got to see some beautiful flowers at balboa park
and i wore my new clothkits dress to present my poster, and afterwards to the hatton awards dinner for grub and dancing!

things from home

today i thought i'd share with you a couple of the things in my home. Two were made my me and one by my great auntie (on my mums side, which is where i get any sewing skills from).

This one is a cross stitch sampler type thing done for tiny and this one is my boys

and finally, the picture my my great aunt, which hangs in the downstaits loo!

I used to hang in her spare bedroom and i admired it when we visited. When she moved into a home we cleared her house out and i aquired it and some other beautiful things she made. Not sure what sort of bird he is but for some reason i call it a partrige!

Things for we are birmingham

Well, i was a busy large beaver (i can't say little its just now correct!) last night and got some of the things i've been faffing with finished to take into the we are birmingham shop today (hope they arn't stock taking or anything!)
There are cushions (one of which i showed you the beginnings of here), lavender hearts and some more chickens (well it is spring!).
Hope people like them, my kids do and wanted to keep all the cushions, so i have had to promise to make them some!

Hope everyone is keeping well, not having weather thats to hideous and if making things.x

And the winner is....

What ho chaps,
 got my random number generator (aka small boy) to select a winner for the cath kidson sew giveaway.

All the names (all 5 of them!) were put into a receptical (childs toy!)

boy proceeded to select the bit of lego that it contained!

Then he selected a piece of paper

of which he refused to show me the name! eventually (and after faffing with the flash on my camera) i managed to photograph it!

sorry its blured but Emma Thomson you are our winner (add fanfare and streamers etc at this point).
Well done you, hope you enjoy it, just email me your address and i'll get it posted off.

The gallery - cool

all dressed up and ready for his school disco! how ever will the girls resist him!!!!

Book review- Debbie Bliss ultimate baby knits.

Hi all, i was a lucky girl and was sent the Debbie Bliss book of ultimate baby knits to review

This Book is first and formost beautiful, it is coffee table material with such wonderful pictures of babys in cute outfits! At the beginning it has the usual how to knit guide and stitch libary followed by the patterns. It has patterns for most things you could want to knit for a little one, a large choice of cardigans and jumpers, booties, blankets and nappy covers. All done in Debbbies range of yarns. As is usual with these things i borrowed my mums knitting expertise and got her to knit up a couple of things. she tried out a hooded jacket and a pinafore dress which as you can see are modelled below by my tiny!

Obviously not done in Debbies yarns but in things from my mums stash the jumper turned out well. The pinafore was a touch baggy around the back. this may be due to the yarn of the fact that tiny lacks a bum! none the less i think it was well worth the effort my mum put into moss stitching it. Once again a fantastic book of modern baby knits, prehaps not for those with an extensive pile of knitting patterns but for those without, a good addition to the libary that can be left out for every one to coo over.