Thursday, May 10, 2007

A weekend with June (g/daughter)

June and I had a busy long weekend together, on Saturday morning we went to our local craft shop to buy fabric for a project we were going to make, then we baked a chocolate cake for my friend .... Jenny .... who was visiting on Sunday. Monday we visited Liz and her boys... Jake, Clayton ( my daughter, Junes Aunt) we had a lovely day.



Cleaning up after cooking.




Busy tracing and cutting out the doll.

Having a break......watching "Happy Feet"




This is a pattern from " Patchwork and Stitching" magazine ..."Rosemarie Jane" by Maria Lewty.



Here she is finished.
We made this doll together, June embroidered the cushion and pants, also machine sewing of the pants , stuffing the body and traced all pattern pieces with templates onto fabric ...... all for the very first time and she is only 9 years old. I'm very proud of her and I know " Rosie " will be happy living in June's bedroom.
We had heaps of fun over the weekend.

















6 comments:

Jen said...

The cake was pretty good as well ~ lots of cream ..... and I still lost weight this week. I do recall someone (who shall remain nameless) struggling with being patient.

Lynda said...

What a fantastic weekend - nothing better than making memories for both of you and a gorgeous doll.

De said...

What a great way to spend a weekend. I have fond memories of days like that with my Grandma and Nan.

Anonymous said...

She did a pretty good job, lookout craft world here comes another Helen :)

Roseanne said...

Yes i love the doll .I use to do the same thing with my nan !! But she is not here any more.Good memorise.

Sarah said...

I also used to sew with my Nan, she is abit old (84) and cant really see that well to sew, so she asks for MY help now LOL!!! Your GD Helen did a great job and she looks soooo happy to be washing up too!!! LOL
Sarah XX
PS: Glad the cake was a hit ;-)