Whovian?

While I think about it, here are a few pictures of the cake I made for my daughter's recent birthday.  She is a big Dr. Who fan, and I got the idea from a picture of a cake which I found online via Google images. 

I couldn't quite fit "Police Public Call Box" on the 'sign', but my daughter was more than happy with it, and that's the main thing.  Oh, and it tasted good too!

I had some problems photographing it and getting the colour right, but the second picture down is the closest to the actual colour the cake was.

I've also been working on a knitted project for my new grandson, Noah.  I'm almost done now (though I actually started it in the summer last year - before he was born!), and have only got to sew on eyes, nose and tail.  I'll post pictures when I'm done.

Rethink, Reuse, Recycle

Hello and a very belated Happy New Year!

Over these last few months (and excluding Christmas, of course), I've been working on a project to reuse all our old jeans/denim material.  In the spirit of reducing the items our household throws away each day, I decided to use some of our old jeans to make our labrador, Millie, a blanket which we can throw over any surface for her to lay on.

 
So I cut up the jeans - keeping the zips because you never know when they might come in useful - and made a quilt which will almost cover a twin-sized bed.  I used a very, very old duvet cover for the backing which has been sitting in my linen cupboard, unused, for years.  There's no batting inserted, or any actual quilting, and the binding was completely machine stitched on. 

The denim is 100% cotton, and the backing is a 50% polyester/50% cotton material, but that won't matter as this quilt will not shrink because there's no new fabric in it.  Everything's already been laundered many times over.

The top took me quite a while, but the backing and the binding took no time at all - not even 2 hours to cut and press the binding, pin the backing to the top, and sew on the binding strip.

Now I'm off to search the Internet to find other ideas for using old denim.