Lots of pictures this time. First of all, a little wrapover dress to please a little girl who is learning to recognise numerals. It is Tana lawn which I have been saving just for this time. I think she will love it.

 Now we come to the project that has been keeping me innocently occupied for some time.  I didn't go into the shop to get a pattern but just hought I would look - when I saw it , I knew I had to get it. That was a superb wedding dress, and I so wanted to find out how that train was made!  It has been great fun tracking down the bits and bobs needed to make it right, and in scale.
 The doll is one I found a few years ago. They were a series called "Get Real Girls" - made in America and deliberately made as an antidote to Barbie, with natural looking faces and figures and flat feet to fit into climbing boots and swimming flippers and the like. Sadly, I can't find any indication that they are being made any more, so the ones I have got squirrelled away are doubly precious.

I have been nagged in the nicest possible way by Jean Miles to complete the hedgehog story, which is now complete.

We had a card around Christmas time to tell us that "our" hedgehog had not survived - she had lungworm, which is quite a common problem with them, and two courses of treatment had not helped, and she died. Ah well, at least she was given the best chance.

We then had a phone call a month or so ago, to ask if we would like replacements. Of course we would, so we collected two of them from the sanctuary: one boy and one girl. We put the cardboard boxes under the deodar tree and opened the flaps. Sometime during the night they came out and ate the mealworms we had put out for them, and then they departed.

That is the last we have seen of them, which, of course is exactly as it should be. If you see them they will usually be in trouble.

So no photos for this one.

There will be pictures soon of my latest "I'm just doing this for amusement" project. I am having to think seriously how to set the photos up for the model I have created - the real situation had an Abbey and a Palace for background. And, no, it is not the knitted scene!