Friday progress - Ginger’s kitchen bench pillow

 

We had a lovely day in St Malo yesterday, fortunately the weather had cooled down and as we left it was just starting to spot with rain. This morning, I have put together section 1 of the bench pillow. Cristin Sohm makes very detailed videos for each stage and adds her own tweaks and challenges. 

The sewalong is at a much gentler pace than I had expected, and I like the pace now. At the beginning I was keen to do extra blocks whilst I waited for some product to redo the first gingerbread house. I have a few extra blocks made but will now continue with the gentler pace of the sewalong and not sew ahead. I can also work on the Lucky Us pillow too and will buy the tulle today for one of the remaining elements of that project.

St Malo is a walled town and we walked from the ferry terminal. By the time we passed through the border control it was 12.30 local time. Thank you, Brexit, for the longer slower queues in the hot sun. First, we did a spot of shopping in the town, smaller boutiques were closed for lunch, but I purchased a sun hat. There was a 30% discount off the hat with an orange ribbon and full price for the blue ribbon, you can be sure that I purchased the discounted hat and will change the ribbon.

We then decided to look for a restaurant for lunch. It is a touristy place so it is challenging to find something reasonably priced, but we found a set lunch menu which suited all four of us.

We went to the local out of town shopping centre with its large Carrefour supermarket. I may have bought a tray of white nectarines and already eaten two. It was difficult to find a taxi and that was probably due to a German cruise ship visiting the port. That would come back and bite us later as we couldn't get a taxi back to the port. We hopped on the local bus with help from a friendly lady but even with some power walking to the ferry terminal, we cut it very fine.

I will leave you with a picture of the cute Legami display of cute heat erasable pens at the shopping centre. A few may have been purchased!!