Stitching and cooking

Yesterday, Colin and Luke went to an away game - Forest Green Rovers v Hyde (football in case you've not heard of them!)  Rachael and I decided to have a Harry Potter day.  I stitched as I watched but couldn't settle to any particular design.  First I stitched on my Stable.

Bothy Threads - Cut Thru Stable

Then I moved onto Roses of Paris.

Chatelaine Designs - Roses of Paris

 And then fancied a little bit of snow.

Lizzie Kate - 6 Fat Men

Finally I couldn't resist marking out my fabric and starting this.  What is it Jo P?  I have marked it out as it is in the fabric layout chart but it seems to waste an awful lot of fabric in my opinion.  I am thinking about restarting it with just an inch and a half between each piece as they are cut down to half an inch left all round. What do you think?

What is it?

On Friday Rachael and Luke wanted to do some cooking and baking.  I'm currently on a bit of a health kick with regards to food so didn't want too many cakes.  In the end we settled on some chocolate brownies and some buns from a Weightwatchers book I had.  Then we made some spaghetti bolognese for the freezer and finally homemade pizza for tea.  Here are some photos of the finished items...

 This is the pizza before the cheese went on.  The kids were a bit heavy on the meat.  Mine only had tuna, mushroom and sweetcorn on so not worthy of a photo!  Luke's was a work of art!

Tea tonight

Tea tonight was made by Rachael and Luke. They made sausage rolls from skinless sausages and shortcrust pastry. They were really scrummy. They also made more pizzas but also some for me and their dad which we also had for tea. There was a little bit of pastry left over so we got 6 jam tarts out of it as well.

Here is progress on "How does your garden grow" after one day of stitching. As I have never stitched some of the speciality stitches before, it is proving a bit of a challenge. I love the colours that I have chosen for this one. I hope to stitch at least 2 parts this month. I wish I had seen this one when it first came out.

The second part of this looks like it should be a speedy stitch so that should help.

Sunday Cricket is done!!

A few weeks ago at Girls Brigade, Rachael made little pizzas with oven bottom muffins. I promised the children that they could do this one might for tea. Rachael chose to make cheese and tomato whilst Luke used brown sauce for the sauce, pepperami and cheese for his. Judging by the way they both wolfed them down, they were a great hit. There is a photo below of their pizzas.

Sunday Cricket is finally completed and a picture is added below. It's funny but I never get a buzz from finishing a design. I think it is more of a journey with cross stitch. Colin seems pleased with it. Now the search continues for a suitable mount ready for framing. A lot of the online stores seem to charge the earth for postage for mounts.