First week of January 2025

Wishing all my blogging friends a Happy New Year - I hope we manage to have a lot of fun together, get to know each other more and create lots of lovely things....

Hand sewing whilst watching cricket has meant the bottom half of Field Journal hexagons is almost done....  I was short one plain hexagon and I want to make half hexagons to straighten the top and bottoms (I need 17)  When those are added on I will join them together for TA DA...   I have to say as much as I have loved doing this one I am glad to see the light at the end of the tunnel

We have a shaded 'fernery' on one side of the house to shield from afternoon sun.  This big Delicious Monster has grown so well but fell over due to all the rain.

You can see here just how big the leaves were....

Chop chop..... all gone (actually there is still a shoot there that might be left to grow????)  A gorgeous big plant but we are worried about those roots

Plenty of time in the Sewing Room between Christmas and New Year........ I agreed to quilt up a raffle quilt for embroidery guild so this was first up on the rack .....

I used rulers with a mix of straight lines and gentle curves....

Except for freehand swirls in the gold border..... 

Someone from Embroidery Guild had started quilting this quilt.... the hearts were done and the plan purple edges and some little hearts.

We had to unpick some quilting done in the sashing as it was pulling too much

I used my sit down machine for this one and did a large meander in the border and then joined hearts in all the sashing....  The biggest time use was dealing with all the tiny safety pins and very close hand basting all over it!

It was the thick puffy polyester wadding which is a bit challenging but gives a nice puffy 'eiderdown' kind of look.

I made up this child size quilt from a charm pack last year....

Big swirl hooks all over - 

Then my Scrappy Houses came out..... 

I did an all over meander which I quite like as it doesn't take away from the house pictures....

Made in a RSC Scrap challenge a few years back.... I had enough of this left over backing from a previous quilt (did need a join).  Lap size quilt.

Colourful binding is already made...

That's 2 quilts added to the binding queue....

Just before Christmas a local woman asked if anyone wanted a bunch of sewing stuff (from her late mother).  I offered to go through it and pass on to whoever.

My car was packed full - sadly most of it needed to be chucked out, packs and packs of rusty needles and pins, old magazine patterns, boxes - general rubbish. There is some fabric and thread which I have put aside for Womens Shed, 

Anyway amongst it all was a Sewing Machine (her Mum still used but it probably needs a service)

It is so heavy - good and solid

Has a lever and turns - the other side is an Overlocker!

I had never heard of such a machine......  

I haven't given it a go yet, there is a manual.  I'm not sure it is worth the cost of a service but I have found a space to store it for a maybe day.....  Anybody know much about these?  I do love the old solid machines.

Righto, Gotto Go....

I have another quilt which I pressed this morning ready to pin on the frame...

Hmmmm.... maybe I'll do some prep work instead.... 

Take care..... xx