Something new and something old

Happy birthday to me! Hubby bought me 'Weekend Sewing' which arrived a week or so ago (as posted below) and is taking me out for dinner tonight with some friends without the kids which will be lovely!

Mum dropped round this morning with these gifts. Hooray for the new rotary cutter! and the book has some great projects in it.

I also got these interesting folders from my mother-in-law who discovered them when tidying up her sewing room. The are two big binders filled with all sorts of projects ranging from knitting, needlework, workwork, painting, fabric crafts, pottery, and the list just goes on! They were published in the 80's sometime so the pictures are not flash but the projects with full instructions on how to do everything are great! There are hundreds of fact sheets that I have been looking through today, some that have made me laugh and some that I am very interested in having a go at.

Here's just a few of the fact sheets included;

Sock puppets

Flower arranging
Tucking

Caning - something my grandmother used to do

A crocheted bedspread

Marbling

Trapunto quilting - looks very interesting, something I would like to try

Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend.

The rain is still about here which is lovely, but it is very cold days and even colder nights.