More making.

When I got up this morning K had made a good start on making the cat from One Stitch At A Time (I got it from The Book People for her for Christmas - much cheaper but hasn't got such good photos for blogging purposes as amazon).  It has a book with explanations about different stitches and techniques to make soft toys and it also has patterns to make five different soft toy animals, along with the materials to make one and some clothes for it. By the end of the day she'd finished the cat and had done most of the clothes to go with it too.  I will be allowed to blog photos when she's completely finished but not before.  She had clearly used the pattern and cut out the pieces really well, and what she has done works perfectly well, but it isn't as intended in the book (as is often the way when K does an activity designed by someone else).  I asked her if she'd read what she was 'supposed' to do and she said she hadn't, she just jumped right in and done it her way.  If you look at Charlie (which is what she's named the cat), it is quite clear that she's done it her way, but she's happy with that.  I suggested we could get the materials for her to make another one and she might like to follow the instructions more closely and see how much difference it makes, but she isn't keen on that idea.  I might make one myself and see what she thinks.
M has been busy drawing designs for a costume (well several actually) for the Puffin Post competition.  It's for a costume for the small soft toy puffin that comes as part of the initial subscription, the winning design is made into clothes which you get with subsequent renewals each year.
Today we had a considerable influx of non-fiction books, an order from The Book People, including among others Usborne's See Inside Your Body, That's Life and two Mind Mapping books arrived this morning.  Then this afternoon, after we'd been to the library we popped into the Oxfam bookshop and found lots of the Usborne Spotters Guide books for 99p each, we've already got half a dozen of these (this is the most used one) and we were happy to add to our collection.
And lastly for now, we have finally finished reading The Story of the Amulet, the final book in the E Nesbit trilogy with The Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet.  I'm not sure what we'll move onto next, so many options!