4th week of November.....

This week has been busy doing some organising for our trip overseas for Christmas..... never done a Northern Hemisphere Christmas and I think we will be in for a cold shock ... but its very exciting to have this occasion with family over there.   I do find this time of year stressful so it's lovely to have a trip to look forward to.

Thick socks, Christmas jumper, new undies..... all those important things to think about!!!

At Quilt group I attended a 'Funky Pouch' workshop led by one of our members.....  I didn't really know what to expect but went with an idea of what picture I wanted...

This was my one by the end of the day....

as you see I didn't have a lot of applique but had fun with scribbly drawing.... used some sweet Tilda fabrics

Here are some of the others that were produced (there were 14 of us but some went home early)

I had a free day on the longarm so set up my 'K Drama Drama' quilt .... which I think I may consider a Wild Party....

I did a fairly tight quilting in the light grey, a loose meander in the black and left the colours alone....

Took me most of the day but I got it done....

Binding done by machine and it's all put away now.... not sure where it will live....

Hand sewing has seen another set of 4 Sashiko style blocks done.....

... and last thing in the evening with tired eyes, (or when car passenger) I am working on a moss stitch scarf in a chunky wool.... it's more of a fawn colour than grey

So that has been my week....... 

Righto, Gotto Go... want to draw up a few more grids for Sashiko .....

Have a lovely weekend.....

2nd week of September

Well, I didn't get round to taking even one picture at the Stitching weekend! I was busy having fun clearly.  

This week I have been getting on with some of my own sewing and crochet...  some more leaves have been added to Civil War Bride border and some stitches into a Sashiko panel....

These 6 framed hexagons are done.... I am now at a point where I need to make a decision before going any further..... I have done 6 each framed in 13 different colours.... they need centres and fillers and there are some more stitcheries to be framed so I will have to choose colours for all that....

Finally some of my own machine sewing - there are a number of 'monthly' projects I am behind on....

RSC yellow - these buttons got made.... I clearly use very little yellow - and need to make an effort to gather some yellow scraps in my future I think.... I do love a bit of yellow so I am surprised...

2 blocks (in 6 different colours) for K Drama BOM hosted by Meerkat Shweshwe  have been sewn....  I love that this is totally different to anything else I have done...

and I have managed 6 crochet KOGO blocks.....

I still have some of the 'monthlies' to do so will play around today ......

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week....

xx

 

Third week of July

Lovely winter weather here this week, cold nights and beautiful days

I have sewn the last 2 of the Field Journal embroideries

They have been so fun to stitch and I will enjoy putting them all into hexagons.

I now have a pretty vast collection of the Cottage Garden Threads and a new project to use them in...... thinking ahead of course!

I have started sewing the tarts on.... you can see the flat ones are stitched down.  It's a challenge to grip the ones in the centre with all the fabric but I will take it slowly ......

I have done July's blocks for K-Drama-Drama BOM hosted by Meerkat Shweshwe 

Modern, different, challenging and not overly time taxing....  I am improving my curved piecing - the light grey was added using buttonhole applique.

This week at Quilt Group they had a Mystery Quilt sewing day.  I got a fair bit done but brought the blocks home to trim and finish off..... they are all placed in their separate bags to avoid confusion.

I still have some homework to do... I'll try and finish these off this weekend so I can forget about them until the next sewing day in August.....

Righto, Gotto Go... I need to do a bit of sorting and tidying in the sewing room then off to town this afternoon.  We are going to watch this new movie Oppenheimer and then do the dreaded groceries.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.....

Second Week of June

Michelle gave me an online video tutorial for doing Kawandi....

I used up some of my cream scraps..... I do like the look and will do more.... I would love a whole quilt of it..... 

This week my focus has been on the next section of Gossip in the Garden.....

An EPP star.....

This little Dresden plate was supposed to be EPP but I changed the lovely rounded edges to sharp points so I could machine sew them before appliqueing onto the background...

Another little block.....

And a sweet pot of flowers....

There are a few pieced blocks I need to make then I can put this section together....

A blog friend in Cananda is doing a 6 block sewalong which I have joined.... each month we make 6 of the same block in our chosen colours....

I ran out of time last month so on a machine sewing day with a friend I caught up the two months blocks

Celeste has called it K Drama Drama - I have to say the curves are challenging me but it's good practice with the different sizes

This weekend we have moved up Northwards to watch a touch footy carnival.  Daughter invited us along to stay at a lovely house by the beach.... this is my morning view watching the sun come up....

Righto, Gotto Go... we just had a lovely long walk on the beach, time for tea then off to footy....