Scrappy QAL

 Pat Sloan is running a quilt along using Wendy Sheppard's book Scrap Quilting. As i had bought the book last year i decided to join in. 

The first blocks are snails

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RSC January

 I've joined the rainbow scrap challenge again this year & for January the colour is blue.

I started with making applique pears

moved onto crazy log cabin

and then onto simple nine patch

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FNWF January

 Did i need to make a new start? No but i did seeing as this panel arrived yesterday. :) I'm using the dreaded lame thread seeing as i bought 4 skeins & only used 1-1/2 on the last large panel.

2 baubles done & started on the bow

Thankyou Wendy for hosting us again this year.

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FNSI January

 Although Cheryll is now only hosting FNSI on Facebook now i'll still do a post on here. Project of choice was the large Sashiko panel. I've only the deer laying down & a few snowflakes left.

i stitched around he antlers, around the head & made a start on the bells before bed called me

  i was trying to take a photo this morning & apparently i needed a photobomber. :)

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Zoom zoom NYD 2026

 Yesterday i finally managed to make it to a Zoom stitching day. :) :) It was so lovely to catch up with the lovely ladies. My stitching project was a rather large sashiko panel had started before Christmas.

I stitched across the bottom, a branch beside the deer i had missed, the eye & started the tree in the middle. I am using this thread

It has a lovely sparkle to it with the silver thread but sadly it's a curse to work with. I didn't know how much thread i would need so i bought 4 to be on the safe side but 2 would've been enough as i haven't even finished the first one yet. Ah well i have 2 more sashiko panels coming so i can use them on those.

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Happy New year 2026

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Merry Christmas 2025

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FNSI December

 Well here we are, the last FNSI for 2025. :) Project of choice for me was Mistletoe Stocking Swag by Fig 'n' Berry Creations. The red pieces do hav stitchery traced on them, i hope i can see it when i start stitching them. The others came as iron on so i was disappointed when i found none for the stockings.

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Stitching projects

 Not sure where it came from but i had this cross stitch project for several years. I dragged it out maybe 2 years ago & stitched the 2 rows under merry & hrist. Dragged it out again after i finished the sashiko & ta da i finished it last night. Now i need to get a frame for it.

As you can see it's tiny & stitched on linen. I had to stitch over just 2 threads. More fun & games. LOL

Next up was a sashiko project i bought off a seller on FB. After looking at the tiny little picture that came with it i thought i knew why it was sold off. No instructions. I couldn't figure how it was stitched with so many lines going every where. So it sat & sat. It wasn't until i bought the Celtic Christmas tree & learned a few things that i figured out how to stitch this project into the star shapes. You see i didn't know the stitch lines were soluble in water as the instructions were missing or so i thought. Today pulling out the red fabric that is for the border lo & behold out fall the instructions. Why they were hidden in there I've no idea.

It needs a press as i just soaked it this morning & was so excited about it i just had to take a photo. :) :) So glad this is another project/kit crossed off my list.

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reindeers

 A while back Julie showed that she had made little reindeers with candy cane "horns" for her grandies. "Hmm good idea i might do that". What started out as 3 morphed into 6. My son met a lovely lady earlier this year who has a little girl. I showed him Julie's photo & said i would also make one for S. Well then he pipes up & says "do you have read felt" he loves red. Next thing i know he wants one. I said to him "what are you 5" :) :) He's in his 30's.  Now the total is 5. Asked my daughter would her step son H want one. He's 15 but didn't want him to feel left out or was he to old for such things, nope he'd love one. Now i'm at six. lol

So yesterday was the day of making them.

Some fun & games for sure & if i make them again i will be changing a few things in the way they are made.

I found a random bulb starting to flower the other day & yesterday it finally opened

I can't remember what they were in this pot. Then i spotted the achimenes are flowering

and Mum's mini rose has one lonely little bloom :)

Plants & flowers are managing to survive despite the heat & storms which i'm pleased about.

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Sashiko

 I finished the celtic Christmas tree last night. I've seen them with crystals added so i may do that before framing it.

Now i need a new project to stitch at night. :)

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