Picnic in the Woods

The weather was so wonderful yesterday that Belle and I met up with friends and went for a picnic in the woods. We used a proper picnic hamper and rug and baked quiches and fairy cakes and picked tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber from the garden. We had a lovely time. This is the hamper once we had eaten almost everything!

Holiday Project

Went on holiday recently to France. Getting ready and packing was all a bit of a rush and I ended up not taking any projects - no matter I thought - we will be playing on the beach all day or in the garden so no time for projects.......it rained and was overcast a lot so I popped into a local Cross Stitch shop and bought the attached to keep me going through the cloudy days and evenings. Have only done about a quarter of it so far and then when I got back my sis in Law has sent me some rather good projects to get stuck into so once again I have started but who knows when I will finish them all!!

ENORMOUS needles

I knitted this hat for my mother-in-law in about 2 hours (and that included playing with Belle and giving her tea!). The needles are enormous - 15mm so it is really, really quick. I'm not much of a hat person but I have to say that this even looks reasonable on me - so I may knit one for myself later in the autumn.