National Jelly Roll Day.

 The 3rd Saturday of September is national jelly roll day & i remembered to participate this year. :) I've had this Cotton Way jelly roll by Bonnie & Camille for many years & it was time to use it up. The pattern is Chill Out by Zen Chic & is free from The Fat Quarter shop.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI September

 I had planned lots of sewing yesterday clearing out ufo's to get them ready to quilt All started off fine adding borders to these two runners

but when i went to get scrap batting & backing out of the drawers it's stored in i discovered ants. So i sprayed & cleaned up that mess. But it wasn't the end. I discovered all 6 drawers were infested. Not a small set of drawers either. I had to chuck some of the wadding as ants were stuck to it. In the end i dragged to drawers outside & gave it another good spray. 

That done i could get the above runners put together ready to quilt. I grabbed another ufo out & had it ready for the hand stitching in the evening.

Those little stockings were so fiddly. :)

Here it is finished

I started to quilt 1 of the runners then remembered i need to add french knots to the ric rac. Luckily i used glue to stick it together so an easy fix.

So that was my FNSI day. :) :)

Happy Stitching,

FNwF September

 An early start with Joy's latest block in the sampler sew along

next up a table runner i had stitched a while back. It only need borders to move it along to the quilting pile.

The little stitcheries for this folder have also been done a while.

Putting the folder together took a wee bit longer than expected which meant i didn't get anymore of my ufo's moved along. :(

Happy Stitching,

Cushion covers

Quite a few year back, i'm embarrassed to admit, my daughter bought some Dr Who & Star Trek fabric & asked me to make some cushion covers. Well yesterday was the day (finally) to so something with that fabric. :) :) there was enough in each piece to make 2 covers. Nothing fancy, just some simple covers.. 

Happy Stitching,

Rainbow Scrap Challenge September

 I celebrated the first day of spring by getting this months RSC blocks done. :) a bit annoyed the camera has made some of the purples look like a different colour.

9 patch

crosses

wonky logs

and the pears

Happy stitching

Upsized Tiggy

 As i was i town last week i took the Tiggy pattern to be enlarged. I asked the person at the shop to double it. asi was handed back the pattern the sizing was mentioned but it didn't quite click into my brain what was meant. Looking at the patterns yesterday I could see it wasn't double in size just "upsized" I'm so glad it wasn't doubled as that would have been huge. :) These large ones are for my sons future MIL.

Tiggy 1. Looks like he has a moustache but it's just one of the bats in the way of the mouth. :)

Tiggy 2

and to show the different sizes

The larger ones are or door stops. I hope she likes them.

I went to look for a nice bag to put them in but they were all for specific celebrations. I spotted some plain brown bags & had an idea to decorate them somehow. I have a babygo & found up a couple of templates that i thought would work & this is the result.

Happy Stitching,

Sewcialites top

 I spent time yesterday cutting the rectangles & squares for the setting blocks ready for a sewing day today. I can happily say i now have a top. Yay me. :) :)

i wish i could say the basket of B & C scraps is empty but alas i have enough to make another quilt or 2. :)

Happy Stitching,

FNSI August.

 I made an early start for FNSI catching up making blocks.

1st up yellow wonky log cabin blocks.

Next block 25 from sewcialites 3

which i posted in the Sewcialites Facebook group only to be told i had a whoopsie. Well darn it. So out came the quick unpick to fix it. Stupid thing is i had laid them all out how they were to be sewn so i really don't know how i got it around the wrong way

Next the Christmas block from Joy's sew along

and left over triangles, getting a nice collection of these now

sampler block also Joy's sew along

time to prep the pears to applique down.

That done it was late afternoon & time to relax with a movie or 2 on Netflix resulting in 4 pears done

A while back i bought 2 zygo cactus & one burst into bloom a week or so ago

the other had flowers forming & i waited patiently to see the colour only to discover they were same as this one. So disappointed as i made sure i had bought 2 different ones. :(. The freesias have been forming flower spikes & one has just opened

Happy Stitching,

FNwF August

 The day of sewing started fairly early making blocks. 1st up was block 24 for Sewcialites

It took a little longer than i hoped. Next weeks block looks like it will be more of the same. :(

The sampler block from Joy's sew along was next.

then onto making a start on the blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge. Yellow is this months colour

I had planned to do some embroidery in the evening but ended up playing silly games on my tablet. :) :)

Happy Stitching,

More finishes

 I've stopped dragging my feet & made myself get into finishing things off. Now these are done i can advance other ufo's from my basket into finishes. These projects have been sitting ready to quilt for months The other projects all still need borders ect.

Gnomie Christmas is a fig n Berry design

Another Fig N Berry design

The next 2 are from Gail Pan designs

this one i didn't realise until to late that i hadn't centred it properly when i trimmed it back. I've learned to live with it. :)

Happy Stitching,

Sewciliates & a finish

Blocks 22 & 23 are completed & there is only 2 blocks left to go. Cross fingers i will have a top sometime next month. :)

 

Another ufo done. It was quite easy to put together so i don't know why i took so long. :)

I was surprised the other day when i went around the side of the house & discovered this bush in full bloom. It's a jade plant i think & the first time i've ever seen it completely covered in flowers.

Happy Stitching,