FNWF March

Thank you Cheryll for hosting FNWF... and lovely company as always.... the lemon pie went down well!

I carried on working on my little tags (February Embroidery project)

All the embroidery is done (I didn't do the larger pieces) and I am now blanket stitching around the edges and adding ribbon.....

As you can see I still have a few more to do... then this project is a finish....

My EPP half hexagons (Inner City) has been neglected, basically because I was procrastinating as I have run out of fabric to cut up.  I don't want to add new fabrics at this stage as they would all be gathered in one area.

Soooooo.... I am going to remove two strips down one side and add those to the bottom - and fill in with the pieces I have left... it will be narrower but longer.  any extra size I need can be done with borders.

Have a good weekend.... lovely sunny days lately and after all the rain the grass is growing madly..... my gardener is out there mowing and planting.  I better be supportive and provide some tea before going in the sewing room with the quick unpick and do the dirty to my hard work.... sigh

Popping over to Cheryll's place first and visiting the others who sewed last night.....

Have a lovely weekend.....

Stitching Happening.... and unhappening...

I've had a fairly busy sewing week with one thing and another....

As much as I am avoiding going out to busy places as much as I can.... I am still having my small group sewing days with friends while we can....

Tuesday hand-sewing I glue basted a bunch of half hexagons ready to start sewing into pairs for my Inner City quilt ...

Then I sewed a couple of pies .....

Wednesday machine sewing I started by doing some machine applique on blocks that were part of a BOM last year...

They still need quilting as it is a QAYG project...

Then I started on my stars.... and being the clever thing I am I decided to get several done at once and chain sew away happily.....  I realised pretty soon I had made a big cutting error and not cut enough of what I needed but too many of what I didn't need.... Not sure what I did as I am usually so careful about cutting but I think I got the different fabrics mixed up.....

They are in a box whilst I sulk and get brave enough to take them out and see what I can salvage.... I am making this with a few friends and there have been some good ideas passed on.

So then I got onto my pretty little pinwheels and made them into bigger blocks.....

These bigger blocks (6 1/2") are not sewn together yet and there still needs triangles to square it up.

I mentioned I am basing my plan on a quilt Jennifer made... she has done a blog post showing hers HERE if you would like to see.....  

Today I did some handsewing... and maybe too much talking....

Shopping is done, went to specialist butcher and greengrocers, more expensive but at least we could get everything we wanted... 

Righto, coffee is drunk and I'm working up the energy to try and sort out my Star DisaStar....  I did say a few bad words.

Keep Safe, Keep Smiling and Keep Stitching

 

Show and Tell.....

This week was Quilt Group day... so I have some show and tell pictures for you.... 

Some of them didn't have sheets with information about them...

I loved this caravan one....

Here is one of the pictures close up... lovely detail

I think this was a Community Quilt donation one...

The woman organising the Community Quilts is pretty amazing in getting things done.  A lot of planning, cutting and arranging beforehand.  She had a bunch of quilt tops which had been kitted up with backing and wadding so I brought a couple of them home with me to do over the next few weeks.  

I haven't opened them up so have no idea what is in there!

I continued on with Inner city.... the width of these is 72" now (I need to fill in the gaps on the sides) but I think I want to go quite a few more rows down so that will be next....  time to join more pairs.

I did get quite a few of the Blackwork sweets done....  doing 4 of these a month with friends...  so I am up to date

A lovely swap from Maria arrived this week....  I do love cheerful kitchen towels so this is perfect.  I forgot to photograph the one I sent off but it is somewhere over the Nullarbor Plains on it's way there ...

Managed to get a skein of the thread I am using for my (coloured) blackwork garden so I have taken it out to do again...  I am a few beds behind and would like to have all these done by the end of the year... and add a small border.

This one is called Ascepias which I have never heard of... but they are pretty in their flowerbed.

Of course I have a quilt on the frame too... this is one I made several years ago....

Righto, Gotto Go..... Hubz is out mowing as more rain is due to come and the lawn is looking a bit like a wheat field.... I am off to chop up bits a pieces for supper.... Chicken Fajita's.......

Have a lovely rest of the week.... 

What Was I thinking?

I have done a bit more on some of my projects....

Another column has been joined to 'Inner City' (thanks Jennifer for the name) (last on the right) but I haven't joined it to the main piece.  I think I will make a larger piece then wrangle it all together.....

I also glued a whole lot more half hexagons - very slow going but I am trying to set myself a little goal each week to keep some progress happening...

Still wondering 'What was I thinking?' with this one....

This is progress to date of my little lollies blackwork with a bit of blue sparkle...  I have 4 more to do for this month now and need to catch up a bit on the borders...

I thought this year my Christmas decorations sent to family and friends could be with my newfound skill of blackwork.....

I purchased some 'plastic' canvas to work on and the pattern from Peppermint Purple (where the lollies is a free pattern).....

This took 3 nights and is only a couple of inches high...... 'What was I thinking?'  I will try another shape and see if I have more luck...  I won't be in time for this Christmas at this rate!

The nest of eggs is completed with all the rest of the work in the block....  this is the 9th block for Civil War Bride....

(all those leaves and there are lots more in the other blocks.... what was I thinking?)

As you can tell I have been doing a lot of "What Was I Thinking?" this week....

So to calm down I ordered another pattern... and a template for another quilt.... and now I just want to go and sew......

Righto, Gotto Go.... hopefully I will get in a bit of machine sewing for myself this weekend

Hope you all find something fun to do this weekend