Make Christmas presents? Finish start stitching colourful creative thing painted two weeks ago? why do that when you could do this:
Woah! Discovered I had a star-thingy-tool and wanted to use it. I don't recommend doing this, but (a) my machine is out of warranty, and (b) it did allow me to get a load of crud out of it. But honestly, what on earth possessed me?!
Maybe I was dispirited because I'd done this to the Christmas cake:
I think we were slightly "under-tinned".
I have now redeemed things slightly, and got something done on the creative thingy:
(actually two thingies)
A start, definitely not a finish.
There will be some pics of student work as soon as I've sorted the photos - they've been mighty busy!