Month end.....

My WOOFA challenge UFO this month was the Chevron quilt.... which just required the binding put on it... 

I already showed more detail on this quilt HERE....

Thanks Cheryll for keeping us on track with getting through some of our UFO's...

I have taken this little bag and needlecase to work on in August ....

I also join in with the Sunday Stitchers and their UFO challenge each month, where they allocate a number to 12 different UFO's and we get told on their meeting dates the next number....

June/July was #12 which was my Tote Bags...

I bought these panels last year .... just beautiful ....

and this was a pair of panels given to me years ago....

I backed each panel with a layer of iron on Parlan and gave them a lining.  These wildlife ones I gave a different back so I could get 3 totes....

I used the pattern from The Quilters Angel which had been designed specifically for the panels... they have some new gorgeous botanical bird  kits in now... hmmmmm tempting !

but the larger one is just one bag with two sides different....

This months number for SS's is #5 which is my socks.  I have made a good start... I had one sock made so it's just doing it's partner.  I am using 4 ply wool so it takes quite a few rows to get that long foot done!!

Progress has been made on my Love quilt and I have added some borders

and ordered some EPP papers so that I can do them on that stripey border.... some honeycomb and square shapes... 

This is the pattern I am using... there is another border on the edge with more EPP  after some fun piecing and needleturn....

Certainly getting some EPP practice in this one...

Righto, Gotto Go..... a bit of tidying and sorting is required then get on with a quilt job....

Have  a lovely rest of the week....

Busy, busy .....

Sunday Stitchers UFO challenge number was #11 and that is now completed...

A boro piece I had stitched up some time ago to make into a snappy purse....

no pattern... and it shows... I have no idea what I was supposed to do with that snappy thing but it certainly doesn't look right...

My purse is ugly... but it works and now it holds my rotary cutters....  I will one day learn how to properly include those snap frames....

A lovely surprise in the post for me this week.... Karen saw I was using old lace in my Wish You Well BOM and has sent me some pieces to choose from.....  there are some lovely different ones there and I'm looking forward to playing with them... thanks so much Karen....xxx

Isn't it so fun when something unexpected arrives?

I gave myself a morning of my own machine sewing this week and did some more blocks of Jane's sampler sewalong....

different variations of a 9 patch....

sometimes just the arrangement of colours...

and other times an unusual manipulation of the blocks giving a 3D look...

the blocks are 14"....

now I have all 12 blocks done..... Jane has a lovely setting on point but I think I will just add sashing and a border which will keep the size down a bit....

Another sweet stitchery for Wish You Well - that ribbon filling in took me a few evenings!!

Righto, Gotto Go.... need to chuck a log on the fire and go check on that chicken I have in the oven....

Have a lovely rest of the week....

Pincushion

The Brisbane Sunday Stitches have a F/B group for a UFO challenge.... at the beginning of the year we number 12 different UFO's and each month a number is chosen....

Cheryll hosts WOOFA and though I had hoped to work on another project they will have to combine this month....

I did lay out my WOOFA challenge on the design board... so that kinda counts???

For May it was the big round pincushion that I was to finish....

 There is so much to each part so heaps of pictures...

It's about 6" in diameter....

I loved doing all the different aspects of applique, embroidery, even EPP,

... so much detail...

Anni Downs design from an old Homespun Magazine...

happy sayings on some panels...

I love the detail for the top and little dangles...

I had a guineafowl candle holder in the house (from Zimbabwe)

perfect size for this big round pincushion...

I'm afraid I don't want to stick pins into it.... it has become one of my favourite dust collectors instead....

Righto, Gotta Go.... the next UFO to work on is a boro snap purse....