A Happy McPhee Easter weekend

There has been much God activity in the house, as would be only right and proper. But please let me just show you McPhee!  All her squares are joined up, and I am now sewing in lots of ends and starting to work the edging.

Prince Charming facilitated the final stages with breakfast in bed and photo shoot.

McPhee might just as well be called the Polyfilla Blanket, so great has been the need for improvising blocks and joins!

This was the final chunk, joining the penultimate square to the last custom-sized trio, referred to affectionately as the shamrock set.

And here for those of you who like the Strawberry Scale of |Measurement are those for whom I really must tear myself away and hide eggs...

Have a super rest of your Easter weekend. I would highly recommend a Lenten blanket project for the quiet perusal of important things. Especially if it happens to be the coldest Lent in many years!

Views from my Land

Oh Jane, I am most sorry- I'm just about sneaking in with this week's window views! Not much to see out there tonight.

Another late night project. I decided at Jo's bedtime that it was high time that Farmer Duck got the pyjamas promised to Mattman for too long. And since tomorrow will be Mattman's much awaited homecoming, it all seemed like such a good idea three hours ago!

So I've been thinking and cutting and thinking and sewing to the background noise of stormy rain. And K T Tunstall and the ubiquitous Rend.

Tomorrow morning we'll fling wide all the curtains and be on a countdown to lunchtime. Jo wanted to know if he should stay home from school so as not to miss Mattman getting off the bus. I'm afraid I said no!

Thrifty Thursday's two-in-one Childlike Christmas!

Thrifty bakes more at Christmas than usual. Only the love of the notion of the Friday Cake Bake spurs her more! She can never quite believe how much more for your money you must get from packets of everything falling about snowily in the baking cupboard. Or indeed quite how many people you can feed at Open House time!

Hopefully baking is a farily established part of my children's Christmas. Admittedly Joshua did have That Year with This Icing...

But generally all is much better managed come Christmas Eve, when special preparations must be made!

Spot the well-loved Farmer Duck, now out to pasture.

Our traditional GH gingerbread made, and spoons dutifully licked.

And even sometimes rolled out again when invited to a New Year's Eve party! (See how long it is since I've successfully managed to get to one of those!)