More celebrations

 There have been some more lovely celebrations over the last few days.....not counting Christmas itself. Last Thursday the Wednesday night girls celebrated at High tea at the Hyatt. We had a lovely afternoon and there were gorgeous gifts too.

This was my gift this year. I must make me one now! I received the lovely decoration and zippered pouch above. We were all very spoilt.

On Saturday I enjoyed High tea again with the Friday night stitching girls at Parliament house. Heather took some lovely photos so this will be a bit photo heavy.

My gift this year were these lovely decorations. The second set are for me!!!

We also lovely seeing Fiona and David on Thursday night and Fiona made me this amazing little canvas work cutter holder! It is gorgeous and will be very useful.

Another little gift stitched earlier this year were these little cross stitch decorations. They are very small!

This and that

 Last week a few of us went to Craftalive at the Old Bus Depot. It was a very chilly day and the huge bus depot was quite cold. We were all rugged up which helped. It was nice to see the stalls and the quilts. Canberra quilters had their quilt show here this time. Here are a few pictures of the quilts.

I quite liked the stalls and managed to buy some wool (not needed but wanted). some useful rasant threads and a few other bits and pieces. I have been having fun with a bit of canvas work. I wanted to make some small houses for my printers tray so adjusted a few of Sue Hawkins patterns to make them smaller. They are a fuss but very cute!

I also decided to use up some of my sock wool stash to make some socks. I have only made one pair before so it was a learning curve working with 4 little needles in the round but here is sock number 1!