A simple, quick headscarf

I wanted to make myself a headscarf like these Blythe dolls from Flickr are sporting. A funky, hippyish, 1970s inspired, tied-behind-the-hair-not-under-the-chin-like-the-Queen-at-the-races, headscarf.

I spent far too long trying to remember my GCSE geometry in an attempt to work out how long the sides of the square needed to be to give me a particular measurement diagonally. In the end I gave up, ate some chocolate and emailed G at work, who reminded me that it was Pythagoras that did what I neeeded: A squared plus B squared equals C squared. Helpfully he'd done the actual calculations for me as well, so I didn't have to start wondering whether A, B or C was the diagonal and how the square root formula worked in Excel.

So I cut out a 26" square from a large remnant of Moda fabric I had been hoarding. I hemmed each side with a double quarter inch hem to give me a scarf that measures 25.5" square and a little over 35" on the diagonal.

As I sat down to sew I was listening to Woman's Hour on Radio 4, and in one of those delightfully coincidental moments they had a discussion on headscarves. Perfect!

A week in my shoes :: Day 2

These astonishingly bright tights are from Gap and I adore them! Perfect for grey autumn mornings doing nothing in particular.

Walking to school.

Waiting with G in the playground for a parents' numeracy workshop (very good - G and I were swots and put our hands up to give the answers quite often - ha!).

In the car on the way back from the supermarket.

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In the kitchen as I baked a cherry and almond cake.

Notes from yesterday:

• My mother bought some boots - I was merely there to advise and tut over the price, in a complete role reversal from my teenage years.
• The parcel was from Clothkits and is for O for Christmas....

Equations

This post is inspired by C who woke up nice and early at 6:30 this morning in order to complete an entire workbook of multiplication and division sums "for fun" (honestly his idea, not mine...but I suppose the genes will out).



4 cups of coffee + 4 paracetamol + a handful of strepsils = no cold symptoms at all
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4 children + 1 large bowl of popcorn = a full hoover
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1 small child + 1 new camera = high battery usage
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(2 x 5 year old girls) + 1 large tub of beads + elastic = 42 bracelets
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(3 x 8 year old boys) + mud + ice + large sticks = the best fun in months
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4 children + 1 large basket of DVDs = no agreement on which film to watch
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4 children x 2 days = takeaway curry + large bottle of wine

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As the holidays have started there are more children around than usual. It has been great fun!
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