Sew-Up Sunday

26 November 2006

Today is Stir Up Sunday, the day when you traditionally make the Christmas Pudding. Everyone has stir of the big bowl of dried fruit, spices and alcohol and makes a wish before the mixture is packed into the pudding basin and cooked.

However, Sam made a fleet of puddings last year, so this year we’ll be eating one she made and have no need to make our own today. Typical, one of the few years we actually remember that it’s Stir Up Sunday before it’s too late and we don’t need to do any stirring.

I still wanted to do something festive today though, having had my seasonal merriment awakened by Soulemama’s pretty window arrangement. I saw this soft tree on BellaBlue’s Flickr stream and decided to have a go at making one myself. The simple pattern is available from Little Birds Handmade.

This is my first attempt – not bad, I thought. The fabric is from the sleeve of an old party dress and the gold beads (on wires) are from some Christmas crackers from last year. There’s enough red material to make another tree and I have some other different coloured scraps lined up too…