Squirrels, distractions.....

 whatever you want to call them is what happened yesterday. :) Rather than working on what i should have been.

I'd been thinking for a while to make a peanut pillow but kept forgetting to look for the pattern. I saw something Tuesday night that reminded me so out came the pattern. Cue son listening to me & looking & next thing i know i'm making him one as well. :) :)

He loves black & red

for me it's purple

A few weeks a go i saw a post about using rubber matting & fabric to make snazzy jar openers. Hmm i happened to have a long sheet of rubber sheeting hanging about.

4 jar openers later & still enough sheeting to make more. Very quick & simple. The runner sheeting was from the cheapie store.

I did do one thing that needed to be finished

 put the binding one & now it's all done ready for Christmas.

I have to get my peanut pillow back out now & youngest daughter now wants one. lol.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI August.

 I started the day making RSC blocks

after taking a break for lunch i thought i would add the borders to the little tablemat i'd been stitching. Well i should've just stopped at the thinking. I cut the pieces at 6" instead of 10". Putting them aside to hopefully use them in other projects & with the correct size now cut i set to adding the borders. Not as  easy as the look. Quite a bit of reverse sewing until they sat right, still not sure a couple of them are right. Oh well it's done now. All ready for some handquilting

all done & ready for the binding

The Azaleas are blooming nicely this year

This poor plant i thought it was going to die. I repotted it & gave it some fertiliser & crossed fingers. Up until a few days ago i still thought yep it's going to cark it but low & behold it has blooms happening. Yay. The blooms on it a so pretty it would've been sad to have lost it.

Happy Stitching,

FNwF August.

 A little Christmas stitching was my project for FNwF

Cute little reindeer tablemat from Gail Pan Designs Christmas stitching club.

Pop over here to visit lovely hostess Cheryll to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

Rainbow Scrap Challenge July

 Scraps sorted i started to make my potato chip block. However the furry pest helper had other ideas.

I got her to move along so i could make my block

next up the buttons

moving along to make the kite blocks & another furry pest helper decided the ironing board needed a bit of fur on it. :)

Fortunately the other "helper" decided the box was a good place to sleep

she woke up just as i was going to take her photo. :)

Happy Stitching,

FNSI July

 I only had a small amount of stitching to do on this panel

so i traced out the stitchery from Joy's Christmas stitch along

which didn't take me long to stitch. :) 

Now what to do? I pulled out my repro scraps & the box containing my hexagon diamonds & papers & made 3 more.

Pop over here  to visit lovely hostess Wendy to see who joined in.

Happy stitching,

FNwF July

 I resurrected an old project when i finished owl & hare so that was my project last night for FNwF

progress so far on the red flowers

Pop over to visit Cheryll to see who joined in last night

Happy Stitching,

July Chookshed Challenge......

 is number 9. For me that is turning some quilts into tops. Starting with

Beanie Season

Owl & Hare Hollow

Ladder Star blocks

These 3 quilts i cut out a couple years back for a retreat that i didn't end up getting to.

Also hoping to get a few stitcheries traced out, some other quilts on my to do list cut out, the rest of the Lucy blocks & anything else i think i need to have prepped for future sewing. :)

Happy Stitching,

Owl & Hare Hollow month 6

I forgot to post the last blocks yesterday. There was only 3 for month 6 & i finished them on Saturday.

Now the trimming back starts & hoping those embroidered blocks measure correctly.
 

Happy Stitching,

Chookshed Stitchers challenge update

well its done & now a top ready to be quilted.

Started back in 2021 most blocks were done. I moved house & it stayed in a box. Fast forward to 2024 & as part of the stitchers challenge i made the rest of the little blocks & the applique. I think there may have been quite a few 1/2 square triangle blocks still to do at that time too. When i started to put it together i encountered an issue so into the naughty corner it went.

Onto this years challenge list it went & i was determined i would get a quilt top if possible or quite a few small/doll quilts if not. today i put that final border on. What relief it is now a flimsy, not a perfect flimsy by any means but i'm happy with it.

Happy Stitching

 

Owl & Hare Hollow Month 5

 Well month 5 is done & dusted. Only 3 blocks left & they will be quick to do. :) Hopefully before June ends i will have made a start on putting the top together but will need to finish Junes challenge first. :)

Month 6 blocks will look like these in the above photo. i'll need to find a new project soon. Maybe a stitchery as i'm getting over the applique at the moment.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI June

FNSI saw me working on the owl & hare hollow blocks. I started with this block sewing down the circle onto the block.

 Moving onto glueing hexies

There was 40 of those. The other 20 have been turned into this

Nearly ready to stitch to the block. :)

Thankyou Wendy for being our hostess again.

Happy Stitching,