So, Hand Made was a whole load of classes on everything crafty. The idea of a craft class terrifies me and true to my terror, as soon as I got into my class on making socks I immeadiatley forgot how to cast on and then dropped all my stitches. After that disaster, I managed to recover myself and to make a miniature sock (see below). In theory I can do all the sock making stuff now. The reason I like Georgie so much is that as soon as she got into her making cushion covers class she broke the needle on the sewing machine! (And then also recovered herself and made some sweet as cushions.)
I also did a course on how to make a Fraisier - a french cake with layers of sponge, fruit, cream and then piped with meringue. All excellent life skills...
Final Hen Weekend done! There was much crafting done for both but I forgot to take any photos of the efforts for the first one. Above is the bride Rachel who is marrying a policeman and hates fancy dress. I made her an extremely tasteful police hat fascinator (from the top of a roll on deodorant). She wore it all night, but probably because she was very drunk. The next day we had the hens around to our flat for a 'pink picnic'. I made the cookies above, the picture is misleading because they actually look okay, they were the only acceptable ones, the others looked like they'd been made by a child. The most impressive 'make' for that day was the decoration, me and Ruth tented out the front room completely (I dyed my parachute pink!), it looked like a womb.
