Autumn sewing events

Well, it's getting to that time of year when the nights are drawing in and I'm thinking of ways to get out there and get out of the house before it's gloomy and all that you can do to keep your spirits up is to drink hot chocolate under a cosy quilt, in front of a log fire and get ready for Christmas!

Here's an event that I'm particularly excited about for Crafter/Bloggers in Birmingham (UK) ...

Sew Brum Blogger Meet Up - Saturday 31st October 2015

http://englishgirlathome.com/sewbrum/ 

Craft bags for my Knitters

Craft bags with all the stuff you'll need for "knit your own Blanket Square" workshop at Cherry Reds in Birmingham, UK.

Get more details on our events page or on our Facebook page

Custard Walk

As a Non-Newtonian fluid, the more force exerted on the custard powder+water mixture, the more the particles of the fluid huddle together to become a solid! Basically you can do a pretty good Jesus impression - or cartwheel through it as one of my crazy Scouts did!

I think we had a good 80 kilos or more of custard powder/cornflour!

Making the custard mixture

Lining up our troop ready to walk on the custard

It was great fun. Not as messy as I thought it would be! We definitely needed 3 leaders to run it. We just kept adding custard powder to water and mixing it. I think the space there is about 8' x 2' x 5". We just put a tarp over some benches which worked really well. The kids lined up and ran across it and had a right laugh. I'm not sure who had more fun, the Scout leaders of the Scouts!