FNSI May

 First up for FNSI was to make a pumpkin for Tiggy as the crushed walnut shells that i needed had arrived Thursday.

Tiggy with her pumpkin

There might be another Tiggy or 2 on the horizon for me. Daughter #3 wants one & GD tried to take mine. She has a birthday next month so she might get a Tiggy. :)

Next up for FNSI was this embroidery. I'm trying to get it done as fast as i can before the iron fades but alas it is fading despite me folding it up every night with the iron on folded in out of the light.

Start of the evening

bedtime

Happy Stitching,

Tiggy

 A toy maker i'm not but i liked the Tiggy pattern by Bunny Hill Designs & bought it many years ago with good intentions. I even found a stripey fabric, similar to the pattern, for it at the time. :). Come Halloween time 2025 i got the pattern out, found up the fabric, felt & ribbons needed & that was that. :~. Recently i got into a discussion with my son about stuff in my sewing room & happened to show him Tiggy & darned if he didn't say his MIL would love a Tiggy. Well shoot. Fortunately i had enough of everything to make two.

All things considered i think they turned out quite well. Tiggy does come with a pumpkin but that is for another day.  The only thing that didn't work out was the hats. Enter Temu & t he right size i needed. :) They got a bit squashed in transit but the suited my purpose so i was happy.

Happy Stitching,

FNwF May.

 I'd forgotten Friday was FNwF until i came across a post in my Facebook feed. :) Luckily i had a project ready to work on. lol.  

I do wish people would double check their patterns. On the back is says a cut 13" square. No matter whether i'm embroidering or doing applique i usually cut my backgrounds an inch larger. I proceeded to iron on the pattern & then i happened to glance at the instructions & it says cut a 15" square. I was quite annoyed. I know someone will say "read instructions first" & i usually do but as it seemed to me to be a simple case of embroidery i didn't feel the need until it was ready for the finishing stage.

I should be able to make it work to look like the pattern but if not i will turn it into a hanging rather than a mat.

and after 2 nights of stitching i'm up to here

Happy Stitching,

ANZAC day 2026

 we will remember them.

FNSI April

 An early start was made. Catching up on blocks again. lol. I'd better do the block released today sometime today so i'm not playing catch up all the time. In my defence i did have my grandson most of this week. :)

Then onto a 3 part ufo. The tags were finished of & the pieces for the bag cut out.

Another ufo was put together & i started hand quilting around the circles

Happy Stitching,

FNwF April

 I had a busy day for FNwF yesterday. I started with blocks from sewcialites 3. I was 3 behind & caught up just in time for the next block released today. :)

Time to move some ufo's along. Borders added to these ones & made ready for quilting

Onto some applique, the last pear i didn't get to on Thursday

and for the evening hand quilting on one of the projects i added borders to earlier in the day.

Happy Stitching,

Rainbow Scap Challenge April

 Pink is the colour for this month & my blocks are done.

Happy Stitching,

Happy Easter

 

Scrappy Sew Along

 Finished the top today for the sewalong. The inner border was done a week or so ago. All i needed to do was piece the final border & attach.

The top looks squiffy but it's not. I just need to press it but the ironing board was otherwise occupied. :) :)

A little surprise for me the other day. 

Only the one this year but i'm happy that i'm managing to keep the orchids alive. 

Happy Stitching,

Finishes

 I'm finally getting to my ufo pile of small projects. Some have things still needing to be done & others just need backing & wadding. I now have a pile that needs quilting. :) Those are on the backburner for a few days as i don't want to keep changing feet.

The mug rug was from a free stitchery that Joy gave us last year.

and 1 of the sashiko panels is now a hanging

Happy Stitching,

FNSI March

 I made an early start in the afternoon continuing the hand quilting i'd started the night before.

ta da all done. :)

Happy Stitching,

week 8 scrappy sew along & sewcialites

 This weeks blocks for the scrappy sew along is baskets

Now to join all the blocks together & add the borders.

This weeks sewcialites block is called spring wind

Happy Stitching,

FNwF take 2.

 I wasn't sure if i'd be stitching along this week as i've stitches in my sewing hand but it's healed enough for me to stitch. The project i'm working on is for storing projects in.

Happy Stitching,

sewcialites

 In the last few weeks i've been seeing blocks pop up for this years sewcialites sew along by Fat Quarter shop. I have caved & joined in & will hopefully use up some of the Bonnie & Camille scraps i have. The first 3 blocks. 

Happy Stitching,

Scrappy Sew Along week 7

 This weeks blocks are shoofly blocks. I had printed out the schedule when i the sew along was announced & didn't realise it had been updated so i cut out 7 instead of 6. 

asked my grandson to choose one to be rejected & he was a bit excited about that. lol

the reject. :( My brain was off with fairies yesterday. Cut all the squares at 2-1/2" when most should have been 2". Then when adding up what i needed to cut for the 1/2 square triangles forgot that i would get 2 out of each piece so i had double the number needed. That's ok i just made the leftovers into pinwheels.

Happy Stitching,

FNwF March & Rainbow Scrap Challenge

 I had forgotten it was time for FNwF until i saw a post on FB. Luckily for me i'd already been sewing during the day for the rainbow scrap challenge. :)

 

When i saw the post i had just sat down ready to applique the pear blocks

3 of the 6 done before bed

Happy Stitching,

More flowers

 This weeks blocks for the scrappy sew along are pieced flowers. The leaf part nearly went to the naughty corner before a light bulb moment but not before there was a bit of fabric wasted. Ah well all part & parcel of learning new things. Luckily though the pieces were only little. :)

Happy Stitching,

Found my marbles :)

 Marbles are the blocks for this weeks scrappy sew along.

Nice simple blocks but effective.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI February

 I had totally forgotten it was FNSI yesterday until i saw a post on FB pop up. Sew what did i do for FNSI ?  I finished making up these tiny tumbling blocks. The diamonds are 3/4"

and started sewing them together to make a tiny quilt.

Happy Stitching

Owl & hare Hollow

 Yesterday was spent adding the final borders to Owl & Hare Hollow. I started the stitcheries back in 2023 when the BOM came out in Homespun. I think i only did about 6 then abandoned the project. Last year i dragged it out & did all the blocks. A couple days ago i trimmed all the blocks & chopped up strips for the strippy borders. Today i can finally say it's a flimsy. It's not perfect by any means but i'm calling it DONE.

When i walk to the shops i pass a couple of agaves & have been watching them shoot up the flower spikes. They have flowered & i remembered to take photo's. :) The spikes a really tall.

Happy Stitching.

Beanie Season

 Thursday after making the flower blocks i cut out all the sashing pieces i needed to turn Beanie Season into a flimsy. I'm not sure when i started stitching the little blocks but is quite a few years back, stopped & then started again last year & completed them all.

Pattern Beanie Season is  Fig "n" Berry Creations pattern.

Happy Stitching

Flowers

 The block for this weeks blooming scrappy sew along is flowers. They were quick & easy to make. :)

Happy Stitching,