Showing posts with label happy hedgehog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy hedgehog. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Variety is the spice of life....


This weeks Blockheads block has lots of little pieces.  the finished block is 6 1/2"


Here are all the blocks so far - I don't know what the setting will be like but I am trying to get a mixture of colours in the bigger and smaller blocks....

I am using fabrics from my stash for this with some bits from the scrap baskets ….


ChooseDay sewing I did lots of machine buttonhole stitch.....


… and made 16 blocks with big daisies in them....


I am going to be using this cute hedgehog fabric I got from Michelle and a fat quarter pack of Eureka
with a bit of extra metreage for borders


… it's a cute pattern by Melly and Me....


When I was cleaning up I found a 'mug rug' kit which I think came with a magazine many moons ago.... it didn't take much to make it up and it's one less thing in the cupboard.


Then I got onto making up some needlecases with some arbitrary stitcheries that I had. 


A little page of wool in the centre is nice to needles...


There are a couple more I still have to stitch down

Today a surprise in the post.  Cheryll found a couple of pretty doilies and sent them - I do like a play with the doilies and these are nice and small so will be fun to make up into something.... maybe even more needle-cases, or special coasters/mugrugs?  Thanks Cheryll …...



Righto, Gotto Go ...…  I am going to peruse this lovely book to find a project that I can make with scraps on ChooseDays….. 


Has anybody else used this book to make something?  

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Fiddling around.....


After being energised with ChooseDay sewing I continued to piece some blocks for My Small World...

This hill was a bit fiddly, I drew up a foundation pieced pattern but needleturned each curve onto each other.... not sure it gave the best result but it worked for me....

(this block measures 8 1/2" by 4 1/2" …. so lots of small pieces


… and here are all four hills together.... you can see they all are a bit fiddly and different... how clever designers are....


… of course I couldn't stop there……


TaDa… all my pieces are together now....  I didn't count them but you are welcome to....

My Small World is designed by Jen Kingwell ….  so clever and so much fun.... now to get it quilted.... hmmmm

Of course with a finish (sort of finish though not quilted) I needed some more machine sewing for ChooseDay….

playing around with some placement


Righto, Gotto Go.... curtain fell down this morning so Hubz needs some supervision!!!




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