One Flower Wednesday.

It's been a while since i posted about my Vignette hexagon progress. I'm slowly working my way through them.

I made these 4 last night.

All the hexagons i've made so far. Thanks Karen for running one flower Wednesday's. I was asked would i make chilli relish so yesterday was spent making it up.

Happy Stitching,

cooking & sewing.

I started Saturday off cooking. Made the custard for these

I then made scones but didn't get a photo of those. :) Then onto making these

red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. The cooking finished it was time to sew. The first 2 items were ufo's that should have been finished last month.

Christmas Joys by Gail Pan. Next ufo

Michelle's Irish Blessing & 1 last owl project which wasn't a ufo. I cut it out Friday ready to sew but ran out of time to work on it.

 Dear Diary, a diary & notebook cover by Joypatch.

 No sewing or cooking today. Off to the markets at Boggo Road & then following that with wine tasting at our local Dan Murphy's.  Have a great Day.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night Sew-In

Instead of just sewing Friday night for the sew-in i decided i'd make a start Friday morning. I didn't get as much done as i hoped. :(

I started with making these 2 cushion covers.

I used leftover scraps from the cushion covers for the pincushion. next to be worked on was this wallhanging,

& a close-up of the verse

I spent the night stuffing the pincushion, quilting around the owl & sewing the binding down. The only other things i managed yesterday was ready 3 projects to work on today. :)

Happy Sewing,

10/7/2012

It's that time again. Join Heidi for this months Friday Night Sew In. I already have. :)

Happy Stitching,

9/07/2012

 I joined Cheryll's Santa Sack swap again this year & this is the sack i sent my partner Kaye.

Some goodies i've bought lately are

Gypsy Girl & Marmalade fabrics &

Red Home by Natalie Bird & her pincushion pattern. Bella is a funny cat does all sorts of strange things. My daughter put her cup of water on the table the other night & turned away to get her tea. The cat jumped onto the table & stuck her head straight into the cup to have a drink.

Naughty puss. She knows she's not to be on the table & not to drink from the cups. The cats like to sleep in places they shouldn't. A basket of wash was put on the floor & they thought it was for them.

I recently made vanilla bean custard & that left me with egg whites. What's a girl to do but make this

Yummy pavlova. mmmmm.

Happy Stitching,

Baking Day

Sunday now seems to be my baking day for the week. Somehow i'd ended up with a pile of overripe banana's again. So out came the recipe books. I did find a recipe a few days ago online for banana & choc chip muffins.

These are all that's left after the kids got into them. The recipe says it makes 12 muffins but i found the batter makes about 18. Whilst they were cooking i made this

fruit salad chiffon pie. They don't make the pie shells the same shape they used to. The recipe used to fill 2 pies shells but now i'm also filling 2 ramekins with the leftover filling. Next up was a banana & pecan slice. I threw the extra choc chips left over from the banana muffins in as well.

Iced with a mocha icing. Just delicious. Couldn't decide on a final banana recipe so i asked the guinea pigs kids what they'd like. Banana bread was chosen.

I had some rhubarb that needed using up. I made an apple & rhubarb cake.

That lot ought to keep them happy for the week.  :)

Happy Stitching,

FNSI, Labne & a swap

Friday night i took part in this months FNSI run by Heidi. First project i worked on was to repair my daughter's skirt. She came to me quite a while back asking if i could repair her favourite skirt. Only way i could hide the tear was some applique. But what sort & what fabric? I think she gave the skirt to me about the time i bought the Baby Go. I got the Baby Go out Friday & cut the flowers. That was fun. I followed the instructions to a T or so i thought. The darn thing wouldn't roll through at all. Even my daughter tried. At whit's end as to why it wouldn't work & putting the 3 pieces back together(cutter, fabric & mat) i turned the mat around only to discover( by accident) the damn Baby Go likes the printed end of the mat to go through the machine first not the blank end.

2 flowers needed to cover the tear. Luckily i had an old child's dress that was suitable for the applique colourwise. 2nd project i worked on was this

Didn't think i'd show you all of it did you? Just a sneaky peek until the recipient gets it. I also finished the stitching on this. It's drying now after rinsing the tracing pen out.

Yesterday i took the Labne from the fridge where it was draining & hoping for the best i opened up the cheesecloth

& found it soft but firm. So far so good. Gave it a taste test. As i've not tried Labne before i'm hoping it was as it should taste. I can see why my research on Labne has a few mentions of using it in place of Philly cream cheese but i doubt i would do so. I wasn't sure what i wanted to do with the cheese so i decided to do what Fast Ed did with his.

Not easy to shape soft cheese into balls. They are marinating in olive oil, peppercorns, lemon zest & fresh rosemary. The cheese must taste ok as i gave my son a taste test last night & he was trying to sneak the whole container home with him. Sorry only the pea & ham soup for you my dear.

A while ago on Facebook i entered a pincushion swap. The pincushion that was sent to me arrived last Friday.

My partner also sent me the little chooky she made.

Happy Stitching,

How time flies !!!!

I heard from my Winter Wonderland swap partner last week that her parcel had arrived. These are 2 of the things i sent.

 A wallhanging from Kaaran's First Friday Freebies. The other is a mug rug with an embroidered snowman.

I was recently inspired to drag out a kit i've had for quite a number of years & trace it out. This is the kit

No problems you say? Well it is a tad had to trace when this happens

Bella thought i'd turned the light box on for her to sleep on. :) But i did manage to get it all traced.

Meanwhile i've been working on this

& this,

Last weekend was our annual retreat. As usual the food was to rave about & the company fun & fabulous. Thanks ladies for the great weekend. Took the camera but was to lazy to take photo's. :( I did work on this

but discovered a little problem with the iron on bits so all i could do was sew the pieces together for the bag. Next i added the borders to Michelle's stitchery which i'd finished last week.

It just needs the backing & binding now. I made a bag whilst out there. Love the size of it.

Made from charm squares & it's huge.

A while ago on Better Homes & Gardens Fast Ed made Labne Cheese. Today i have finally gotten around to trying it out.

Just 3 ingredients into the bowl.

 All whisked together & into the fridge for 1/2 an hour.

Ready to hang to drain overnight. Now i'm off to make Limoncello & a nice batch of Pea & Ham soup in the slow cooker.

Happy Stitching,

winter wonderland swap

The online group i'm in recently had another swap. This time our swap was themed Winter Wonderland. Today my parcel arrived from the lovely Dale.

My lovely wrapped gifties,

Even Bella was interested in what Dale had sent. You know what they say about curious cats Bella.

Love this gorgeous wallhanging.

I shall be warm this winter with the beautiful scarf & socks. Certainly need the coffee today to help warm me up. Not to mentions the yummy choccie. Thanks so much Dale for the gorgeous gifties.

Happy Stitching,

goodies & a couple of finishes.

Thursday my parcel arrived from the lovely Michelle. When Michelle posted recently about her latest pattern i emailed her & asked to send me what was needed & the stand.

Included was candy & cute little cut-out rabbits.

I traced the pattern yesterday evening & have 2 lines of words embroidered. :) The fabrics Michelle sent are gorgeous.

I have a few finishes. A couple i can't show as they are for a swap. The hexagon butterfly is now a cushion.

Recently Melissa offered a free pattern on her blog. I've turned mine into a pincushion

I used Cottage Garden threads for the embroidery.

Happy Stitching,