stitching

 Alas my machine will be away for 4 weeks so definitely no machine work unless i break out the Featherweights. No new machine as the shop has gone out of Janome brand. All Berninas now & 1 Juki. all well beyond my price range. :( So hand work it is. I finished this last night & started number 5 in the bom

I trimmed the pear blocks & laid them out. It's just a rough layout at the moment because some of the same backgrounds are sitting together. The pattern called for 64 blocks & as i only have 60 i will leave 4 out or whilst waiting for the machine make another 4. Though i'm liking the rectangular look rather than square.

Happy Stitching,

nine patch top

Well the nine patch top is done but in hindsight i should've gone 7 x 8. I was trying to use up the blocks but i've 6 over as i felt another row would be to long.  Still it's a nice size to be donated to someone in need. That will be it for sewing now as my machine is having an issue so off to the sewing machine guy to have it seen to. Might have a looksee at the machines whilst i'm dropping of my machine . :) :)

Happy Stitching,

FNwF October.

 As all the blocks for RSC were done i hoped to get 2 tops together yesterday. I only managed 1 as the cross blocks gave me a problem. Yes they all look like crosses but they need to be sewn a certain way for them to meld together correctly. So it was rip, rip with Jack the ripper. You can see what i mean in the photo below. The pink was wrong. I had 4 colours to reverse sew. :(

Here is the top. I'm thinking i will add borders though it is a good size now. 

Evening saw the last 2 pears stitched

That brought a total of 240 blocks over the 4 projects

Last project for the evening was a few more applique stitches in this project

Happy Stitching,

Rainbow Scrap Challenge October.

 No colour was suggested for October so i decided on brown. Yesterday i pulled out all my brown fabrics & set to making all the blocks.

I didn't quite get all the pears sewn down last night. Todays Sewing will be to start turning the blocks into tops.

Happy Stitching,

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,