Anyone fancy a challenge?

winniepooh

My challenges for this week

Finish cushions my sewing machine blew up this week. Having a new one delivered Saturday hopefully so I should be able to finish the cushions.

Cross stitch. I want to spend quite a bit of time doing it this week

Make baguettes. Never tried to before.

Where is everyone ?

thrifty-gal26

Wow winniepooh, you have been busy!

I have spent the past two nights knitting my niece a pair of booties. They are nowhere near perfect but I think the 8 hours of love poured into them make up for it

I have spent the week cooking Italian and very pleased to report I made tortellini from scratch and is was very good for my first pasta making venture, even if I do say so myself.

Next week I want to start a blanket I have now got the wool for and make a cheesecake

winniepooh

thrifty-gal26 wrote: »

Wow winniepooh, you have been busy!

I have spent the past two nights knitting my niece a pair of booties. They are nowhere near perfect but I think the 8 hours of love poured into them make up for it

I have spent the week cooking Italian and very pleased to report I made tortellini from scratch and is was very good for my first pasta making venture, even if I do say so myself.

Next week I want to start a blanket I have now got the wool for and make a cheesecake

I really envy you with the knitting. I would love to knit and have tried so many times but I cant get the hang of

dannie

Hi winniepooh and others,

I'm still around checking this thread. Since my last post, my challenge was to be more reliant on my groceries stockpile due to January expenditure. However, still not happy with some of my February expenditure. Next, I tried to use up my fridge freezer items and also considered the idea about long-life foods for emergency situations. Still a long way to go using up the food items and unsure about storing too much. Thirdly was the next stage to open a savings account but keep getting delayed with this. After that point, things went adrift. However, last week I tried to update my cv but decided to do this towards the end of the week so only some of it done.

It has been nice to read about your achievements and enthusiasm.

winniepooh

Challenges going good. Cushions made. Cross stitch coming on nicely and baguettes just out of the oven.

Next week.

More cross stitch
Make candles
Do some on my quilting project for my course

flyingmamma

well my biggest chalkenge is complete.... baby girl born on valentines day....have been busy keeping on top of the washing!i hav been decluttering the house and batch cooking which has really helped when i came home with baby! my next challenge is to start weight loss program and this week plantvup some pots for garden.

winniepooh

Congrats fm. I was thinking about you the other day wondering whether you'd had her. Your doing extremely well to keep on top of the house work

flyingmamma

made a cosy toes for baby car seat and 2 hats for kids from an unused fleece blanket! pleased to do something really crafty and make somethingvfor the kids! was going to order cosy toes online last night....£40 ,the matching hat was£12 .... found pattern for hat online and it took 5 mins to make! cosy toes took 20 mins....i am a rubbish sewer but getting better....was a relaxing way to unwind after hectic day !Found a great pattern for kids dress online .... gonna try and make 2 matching dreses for baby and toddler....next weeks challenge!

winniepooh

Well I did well with my cross stitch this week and I made my apple candles this morning. I did do my pin wheels but they weren't great.

So next weeks challenges.

I still need to do loads of cross stitch
I want to make a sewing machine cover
And bread and butter pudding.

Im also doing a sponsored dog walk on Sunday ............in a onsie

flyingmamma

good luck winniepooh for Sunday!