January monthlies......

This month I have done this hand work for 1 Christmas Item A Month....

These are going to be little heart ornaments but I have decided to do the handsewing first then make the hearts later

Once they are prepared they don't take too much time to stitch up, so though I am not actually finishing an item each month I am making progress ...

Thanks to Narelle for hosting 1 Christmas Item A Month...

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This month's WOOFA items were....

Garden Sunshine quilt....

I managed to get all the blocks together and sew the border on to make a flimsy.....

United Stitches.

These are the little hand-work blocks I am doing and this month I got 7 done.....

The other project I am working on is my tumblers … as leaders and enders so a bit of progress each month as I get any sewing done...

I have a nice pile of pairs … will still keep going and use up the light rose fabric which is going in between

Thanks to Cheryll for hosting WOOFA.....

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OPAM

As far as finished projects... there are lots of little things as a result of trying to do a bit of a clean up....

Loads of kitchen cloths.....

… a bunch of baby wash cloths....

… one more penguin jumper.....

3 little blue quilts.....

… a bunch of block boards.....

… and a little pink baby quilt....

Thanks to Kris for hosting OPAM.....

Righto, Gotto Go.... I'm going to sort out what's to be done for February.....

Little quilts....

These little quilts are finished now.....

Light quilting to hold it together but keep them soft....

Binding finished off by hand....

… and another of United Stitches done....

there is always room for kindness in our world....

and I have finished all the blocks for Garden Sunshine (it was a free BOM by Quilt Doodle Designs last year)

with a 4" border in the white it is now in the quilting queue....

In my mini clean up I found 3 more boards that I had glued wadding to, so I glued on the binding this weekend.... 3 more block holders... they are so useful when building blocks and not wanting the bits to move around...

(I used pre-used corflute so you can see the shadow from the printing behind the wadding - gotta love upcycling!!!)

Lori Holt has a lovely free tutorial on making these HERE.  Mine are a slight adaption but the same concept. (me and glue guns don't seem to work well together)

Righto, Gotto Go..... lots to get done this week.... hope you have a great one.....

January WOOFA .....

Cheryll is hosting a WOOFA challenge to help us keep on going with UFO's..... no finish needed (but nice) but just progress...

This month I have a few projects I want progress on...

GARDEN SUNSHINE

I am a few months behind this one... which is now finished so I have spent some time cutting and sewing....

These two blocks are finished....

This was a free BOM in 2019 from Quilt Doodle Designs.... very sweet and 12" blocks so manageable and not too challenging.

There are 3 more blocks which are semi prepared... I have done some of the machine piecing but they all need some embroidery to get done.

UNITED STITCHES

This is quite an ongoing project... and quite a few more to be done but if I can finish a few more this month I will be happy...

This sweet block is finished....

… but anymore are going to wait until I have done the Garden Sunshine ones.....

SCRAPPY TUMBLERS

Last year I attacked my scrap baskets and pulled out any scrap that was 6 inches or bigger and cut up tumbler blocks....

This will be my leader/ender project....

I am not usually good about leader enders as I get impatient and just sew them.  I am using multicoloured fabrics and had an almost new cotton sheet (the light fabric with roses) so I am going to space out the blocks with it.....

Another project that will be ongoing but any progress is good.....

Righto, Gotto Go... holiday is over and back to quilting jobs..... 

Catching up.....

All the little embroidery blocks for Les Courtiers are done.... in the pattern they are backstitched and coloured in.... but I haven't got the colouring in stuff (and I don't want to start yet another obsession! hhaha)  so I just did a variety of stitches...

Happy with how they look and hope they fit in with the rest of the quilt....

I still have a lot of other blocks to make for it ….  and that will soon be on my daily machine sewing time list....

This week I have been working on catching up with some of my on-line blocks.

This is the block for Jane's sampler..... Block 11 has 11 pieces 

This is all the pieces together... just one more block and then some sashing to go 

Jane has had a series to help beginner quilters.. and she does video's for each block and they progressively have more pieces and learn new techniques.

I know I'm not a beginner quilter but I wanted to join in.  My challenge was to make the blocks half size and try and improve on my joins.

Next I worked on Garden Sunshine, which has been a free BOM from QuiltDoodleDesigns. (they are free for the month they come out)

This was Septembers block

Square and a Half

… and these two for October..... 

Indiana's Puzzle

Rising Star

These are pretty blocks and I am using my little collection of 1930's fabrics with some white Bella.

Righto, Gotto Go.... I want to play with these today....

I hope you have a lovely rest of the week.... I am going to the Brisbane Quilt and Craft Fair tomorrow …. some mischief maybe???

Things at home.....

Since getting home after our break I have done a bit of sewing....

This is the August block for Garden Sunshine.... it was a mixture of foundation piecing, piecing and applique....

… and I got back to Wings with a  couple of blocks... 

Lily and Dragonfly....

Bird in a Teacup.... 

A friend gave me this lovely King Orchid which has 4 spikes of flowers....  

… and another postcard has been stitched....  I still have quite a few of these to do so I better get going with them... 

I finished the first little penguin jumper.....

It's a very easy pattern and this will be my 'in the car' knitting project and just keep making them up as I go.... no rush but something to keep my hands busy when I'm a passenger... 

Winter is 'officially' over now here....  I am hoping it means the end of coughs and colds …..  and it's already time to get those September things done!

Have a great week.....