1. Pouch for Anne-Marie (18 months ago) (Anne-Marie retired before I got to this. For SHAME!)
2. Cushions for Mr Golightly's Big Sis (17 months ago) (Still waiting).
3. Cushions for Lyndsey (6 months ago) Finished (finally) & waiting to be handed over for her birthday. Yay!
4. Seat covers for Mrs Autrey (at least 9 months ago) Finished, just waiting for the Post Office to re-open.
5. Dog for Effie in Canada (only Monday) Cheated just slightly & sent her nephew the one featured on the blog. Hope she doesn't mind!
6. Pouch for MBF's children's piano teacher (3 months ago) Let off the hook, she'd forgotten too & bought something.
7. Pouch for MBF's children's dance teacher (ditto)
8. Cushion for MGF Kaz (who knows, so long ago I've forgotten) No change.
9. Dolls for the children of people in my team (2 months ago). Finished, see previous blog post.
10. Christmas Scarf for Clare in the UK. Started but nowhere near ready. No change.
11. Christmas Gift for Gill in the UK. Not even started. No change, nearly two years later. I'm sure I'll manage something this year!
12. Welcome gift for Mrs Autrey's baby (knitted but not wrapped or posted). Wrapped & waiting for the post office to open.
13. Welcome gift for Clare's baby (not even started). Baby is now 2 plus. Oops.
14. Kris Kringle gift for friend at lunch on Sunday*. Lavender bags X 3. Time? 20 minutes. Easy.
I think I need a new list.
It's 4.24am, Gentle Readers, and my brain is churning. I dug out this old entry from December 2011 & I'm sorry to report that its the same colleague who's giving me grief. Some things never change.
I'm considering making a quilt for my nephew & his lovely wife (oh! Did I mention there was a wedding in the midst of everything else that went on this year? I'm sure I'll be ready to share more details later. Really). I just ordered this to go in the middle of the squares of the quilt - it's all made from Japanese cottons, and it needed something a bit ... lively... for the middles. We'll see. And here's one I made earlier:
All the quilters who read this blog (ha!) will be exclaiming about the terrible join in the border. I know, I know. At least I hand-stitched the binding on.
Now. Back to bed.
PS Why???? Blogger, Why? Arggggg
Does anybody but me see some kind of weird irony in being asked to make a toy dog, less than a week after The Best Dog In The World has gone to Doggy Heaven? Goodness me but life is weird.
Anyway, Mr Golightly's nephew, Master E, has a friend, Master L, who is having a birthday, and "could Aunty Golightly make a dog like mine, only for the Cronulla Sharks?"... Last year I made a dog for Master E in the colours of his favourite Football team (or a close, Joel Dewberry-type approximation thereof).
For those of you out there not completely au fait with the NRL (oh, you too?), the colours are apparently blue, grey and white. So, one did ones best, as they say somewhere else:
To be named, somewhat appropriately, "Sharkey". I'm a bit cross with myself because I forgot to make him a collar, but as Master E's mother so wisely said "he'll never know". Well, yes, but I will. Next time, too, I will dig out the florist's wire & make the ears a bit more standy-uppy, but I quite like floppy-eared dogs. Why wouldn't you?
And now, back to the disaster that is Australia Vs Pakistan. Mr Golightly is off getting wet & miserable at the Cricket Ground today and very shortly I'm going to do the good wifey thing & make spaghetti for dinner. He'll need something to cheer him up after Australia's performance today!
