Sewing book review and mummy and daughter cooking!

As promised on my last post here is a picture of the latest edition to my craft book collection. Girl's World has 21 fabulous sewing projects for the little girl in your life. It's not all clothes, there are homewares and accessories, but I have to say the book is definitely worth buying for the full sized dress patterns included.

Jennifer Paganelli the author and creator is probably better known for her fabric line, Sis Boom fabrics, printed and distributed by Freespirit. However, the patterns seem very simple to follow and the styles compliment the bright fabrics beautifully.

I'll be attempting this design first, probably in a pink or lilac fabric colourway:-

Then this sash dress (below) would be perfect to make for a little party dress!

Girl's World is definitely going to be thoroughly used and enjoyed this summer. If you would like to get hold of a copy you can order through amazon here:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girls-World-Twenty-Pretty-Projects/dp/0811874443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1305826529&sr=1-1

And now onto cooking........

Last night, after explaining to Little P how I couldn't resist buying a pot of Cornish clotted cream at the supermarket, we decided that after school today we would make scones together. It was brilliant fun as you can see from the photos, and Little P has become very profficient in rubbing the butter into the flour. I think this has something to do with the hundreds of times mr B and little P have made rock cakes together!

Here she is rubbing in...........

And rolling out the scone mixture. We decided to use the new cookie cutters that Grandma bought so we would have more interesting scone shapes rather than just round ones.

Very concentrated work brushing the tops of the scones with milk......

Mmmm...... I can confirm the resulting scones were delicious!