Easter Flowers and Food

Grandma arranged flowers this morning at St Botolph's Church ,Cambridge.The weather is very hot so I hope they last.

Easter eggs for grandchildren ( and others) have been bought
 from Marks and Spencers

A large and delicious Simnel cake is in the oven as I write. This cake dates back to the times when young servant girls were allowed to visit their mother over a holiday and bake her a cake using ingredients from the mistresses kitchen. It is a light fruit cake with a layer marzipan in the middle and marzipan finish .Will finish mine tomorrow.

Easter

                   

Eggs, Simnel cake, Church flowers-- no time to blog today

Sew Easy Royal Wedding Cushion

You will need

1. You need a cushion pad  30x50 centimeters, 2 pieces of  felt (green) 40 x60 cms, small pieces of yellow,  and white felt for the crown and  red for the hearts.Gold, ,red and black thread for the embroidery.
2. Use this template to cut out a crown and 2 hearts.

Attach the crown to the one side of the green felt -gold thread looks good
3. Use a strip of white felt for the fur at the base of the crown

Embroider the names on the hearts using running stitch or chain stitch 


4. Embroider the date on the cushion
5. Attach the hearts using red thread and blanket stitch
6. Sew both pieces of green felt together using large blanket stitch

7. Insert the cushion pad and stich up the last side
8. This design makes a simple cushion that children can make with Grandma , the colours could be varied for a pretty hand made wedding or new baby gift.

9. Times are hard-- encourage children to make simple gifts that will be treasured.

Royal Wedding Stitch Up

Grandma loves this knitted Royal Wedding and will give it to her granddaughters. It has been knitted by  friend Julia Barbe using Fiona Gable's pattern book.More of these knitted characters will be  for sale at St Botolph's Church Cambridge on 2  May 2011.

                   Prince Harry,Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, Kate and William,Camilla,Prince Charles and a corgi