I picked up the fabric for virtually nothing at our local Scrapstore. For those not in UK, scrapstores are a great resource open to all sorts of educators including home educators, here in England. It is like a warehouse to which local businesses have donated clean reusable scrap materials from their business ventures for the community to reuse. We visit on a regular basis and always find all sorts of interesting resources to use - rolls of paper, card, fabric, carpeting, really all manner of scrap! We go around the warehouse with a shopping trolley and a full to the brim trolley costs around £9. We've never paid that much - around £4 we've paid for old files, rolls of paper, large sheets of card, tea bag paper, paint, fabric, corks and other oddments the boys have come across they feel they could make a craft out of.
Anyway I spotted this fabric which I thought would make nice thick curtains to keep warmth in over winter. And my sewing machine has been playing up so I sewed all four curtains by hand. I used the thin, cream curtains we already had hanging in those windows to line these.
So they are nothing exciting, but I am pleased as the curtains have probably cost me around £1.
Also, I finally finished the platypus I started around October for Sol. Sometimes, I am very good at starting a project and then leaving off before finishing..So, he had to prompt me to finish it. I sat up really late one night and got on with it. And then stuck it under his arm while he slept. When he woke up in the morning and discovered his finished platypus next to him he was so, so, so pleased. He carries platty about all around the house. I love it when a handmade treasure truly does become a treasure. Some things I knit up are not played with, but Sol's parrot and platypus are treasures to him. For both he has chosen the yarn and colours and I have knitted up according to his instructions.
That's it from me. Now, I must get on with digging out and finishing off all my other unfinished projects!
