Friday, October 9, 2026

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,


Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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,

Saturday, October 3, 2026

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,




Friday, October 2, 2026

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,


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 ha...