FNWF

Thanks Cheryll for hosting us .... I did contribute some wine ....

I did a few rows of my wave blanket..... I do love the way it goes together and I am following a colour chart which is giving it a lovely countryside look.  

During the day I put this little quilt together.....  I dug out my scraps of Tilda and used up premade blocks where I could and then cut up smaller pieces.  Not sure why I chose to do the embroidery on all that pink... but there it is.   There was a lot of work in the embroideries so they aren't being chucked.

I kept cutting up to start a pile of usable blocks... really not sure what I will do with the smaller pieces but I can't bring myself to chuck them....

I have 6.5 x 3.5 (will become bricks one day) , 3.5" square (edges for the bricks), 2.5" (because that is a useful size) and strips and bits of any length or width more than an inch....

I'm just adding the pictures in the quilt because I think they are sweet..... even though we have had a horrible mouse plague in the farmlands these are sewing mice so they get to stay....

We have had a lovely bit of rain over the last couple of days (over 40ml), still damp and overcast so excellent weather to go and sew......

Righto, Gotto Go...... first I will pop over HERE and see what others got up to last night....

Retreat sewing....

A lovely weekend was spent with the wonderful Sunday Stitchers from Brisbane...  I was very blessed to be able to go along and spend my weekend days with them....

Thanks Sunday Stitchers.....

The main thing I had wanted to get done was this Fat Quarter Quilt.

The pieces were all cut so it was a matter of choosing which fabric and doing lots of stitching

16 fat quarters and it makes 16 nice bold blocks... a lovely easy quilt for using fabulous fabrics you don't want cut into small pieces.

Tim Holst fabric pack and pattern from The Quilters Angel who have an online store

Thanks The Quilters Angel ....

Of course being away from home I had to make sure Hubz had something to do.... We have this large brick facing wall with no windows (it's behind my oven and fridge and pantry cupboard in the kitchen)

Hubz drilled in the concrete and attached a tight wire for me.... 

... so now I have a lovely place to hang my finished tops and quilts for photograph taking!  

Thanks Hubz.....

This morning I found some backing to use... and I had already bought some of the same fabrics to use for binding....

I want to get this one quilted soonish as it is a gift....

Then I got onto sewing up smaller pieces I had pre-cut...

... and made them into two sweet baby quilts

... and this morning I cut some strips and made up the binding so it is ready when I get to them....

Pre retreat we had been given instructions for cutting a couple of pieces of fabric and we were helped making up lovely little snap bags using cut up tape measure... some Hubby is now missing his tape out the workshop!!!

Thanks Alison and Maureen ...

... then I started on my next big scrappy project.... the red and cream pineapple blocks.

I got quite far but still have a few more rounds to do till they are big enough.

I am doing 25 x 10" blocks

The Sunday Stitchers had Show and Tell for the last UFO which was #5 and for me that was finishing a pair of socks

These socks were done but had been given away to my daughter... made from lovely  Bendigo wool

I have enjoyed making the socks, and I enjoy wearing mine so I will do more... one day.  I have always loved the idea of hand made socks and wanted to learn to make them.  Jane, my friend in UK

has video workshops and so I joined in a couple of years ago and that really helped my confidence.  Access to the video's is ongoing so if I forget what I learnt I can go back.... 

Thanks Jane....

The next UFO challenge is #10... which is my Mouse Quilt......  

Quite a lot of work needs to be done for this.... which includes finding where I put the instructions...

Stitcheries were done quite a long time ago and I am going to be using my Tilda left over from other projects pieces as it is not a big quilt/wallhanging....

Righto, Gotto Go.... after a relaxing weekend which finished with a shopping trip to a local quilt shop and some yummy lunch yesterday I have work to do....

Hand stitching.....

This week I got a lovely parcel from Shez...…. 

The pattern she designed for a Stitching weekend she attended recently....

I love the saying so I traced and stitched this one up and I'll put it in a frame.... we all go down the rabbit hole occasionally????? 

Well done Shez, I do admire brave people who have not designed before just having a go and standing up in a crowd to present it.....  

I am looking forward to doing some of the table runners - need to search out some fabrics for them.

Shez had some extra patterns that she is selling... real bargains too as they include some fabric to trace and thread as well as the table runners patterns..... see HERE

I do finally have a finish this month... another washcloth!  I keep my knitting for trips in the car - sometimes only a row gets done.… I am onto some balls of navy cotton now 

My latest Mouse is stitched..... this expression can only be "Happy Place"...... 

We have had a bit more rain on Friday .... and the little bit of front lawn actually needs mowing.  Normally in summer mowing needs to be done on a weekly basis - I think this is the first mowing it has had since early December.  The rest of the grass has not recovered yet.

Righto, Gotto Go.... while the mower is going outside I am going to cut up some more pieces for One Block Wednesday blocks....

Have a lovely rest of the weekend.....xx

 

Stitching....

I am pleased that I have another bunch of these little blocks done.... there is still heaps more to do....

… and this weekend I spent some time cutting fabric for another lot which I will sew with the ChooseDay girls....

I also cut up pieces of my flannel to make up the first four blocks of the postcards quilt....

 … which reminds me  I need to get out the next group to hand stitch the pictures....

My flowerville block didn't need much more to finish off.... I have now starched it ready to applique onto the dresdens.... which I will sew with the ChooseDay girls...

… and I did get another little mouse done... I am trying to work hard on these and get them finished....

I think you know I like my rather eclectic pictures in the house... this is another little one which I think is sweet.  I struggled to get the colours showing well but it is a bit bolder than this.... 

… it's on a little porcelain table..… just over an inch big...

It's part of a little sitting room set.... which I remember playing with at my Granny's house.... I just love it....

This weekend we finally found a display unit we liked and so some of my pretty things have been taken out of a storage box and placed in there... this little set was amongst them...

Righto, Gotto Go..... time to think about food ….. back in a heatwave here so it will be salads!