Curiosity

Yesterday i was curious to see how many coffins I'd sewn together & how many are prepped ready to sew. The top has 241 in this photo

I added 3 more to the left side last night. The tray had 250 in it when i took the photo. Both the top & tray have coffins swapped with the online group.

Long way to go to make it 1000 coffins. I'll need to aquire more fabrics to add to make sure i don't double up. Then there are the half coffins & the side pieces. Guess I'd better work out an exact plan instead of merrily sewing along.

Happy stitching,

A quiet Saturday afternoon

I spent a lovely afternoon yesterday watching Hinterland on Netflix prepping more coffins. The inner circle are made from fabrics sent to me by ladies in our online group & the outer fabrics are my own.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night with Friends August

No a lot done yesterday despite plans to put extra buttonholes on 3 shirts so that cufflinks can be used on them & make binding for a quilt. Hopefully today i can get into my sewing area & do something. Anyway i cut all these rectangles for the coffin quilt

1 pile for me & 1 pile to share. Next up i finished this i made this block for Round We Go

I had completed the other 3 during the week

Now to applique them to the background fabric.

Pop over to lovely hostess Cheryll to find the links to see what those who joined in last night worked on.

Busy day

I'd been given bush lemons to make lemon butter. My tree only sprouted 4 & my brothers tree 12. Luckily i had 16 eggs from my chickens & could make up several batches. Many hours later i had 9-1/2 jars.

Next up was a butterscotch self saucing pudding

It was delicious.

I'd  been trying to resist a BOM called Round We Go by Sue Daley buf i happened to see a post by Voodoo Rabbit with fabrics a lot different to what I'd seen on offer by other shops. I quite liked the choices i seen but felt time to be different so i caved & signed up. Prep time last night.

A little bit of  a Halloween feel to some of the fabrics.  😊😊.

Happy Stitching,

My Week of Sewing

I got stuck into Ice cream Soda after last Friday's effort & finished them off by Thursday night

Yesterday i sat down to prep coffins but i ran out of paper shapes. I'm seriously thinking i should buy a scan n cut so i can cut all my own papers as i go through so many & that is with reusing them several times. The lovely ladies from our online group have been swapping fabrics in the hope of not having a repeat in our coffin quilts making it a true charm quilt. So far so good for me. These coffins are from 2 ladies in our group.

I worked on the coffin quilt last night. I managed to get them sewn along the top & nearly all down the side when i had to go to bed. Falling asleep isn't good for sewing. :)

Happy stitching,

FNSI July

This is all i achieved for FNSI. It was not a good day for me as a family member was having major brain surgery & my anxiety went through the roof. All is well now thankfully.

Pop over to visit our lovely hostess Wendy to find links to everyone who joined in & see what projects they worked on

Happy Stitching,

catching up

I've gotten behind with a Christmas sew along. Last week i tried to get to the machine to catch up & manged to get 2 lots of blocks done.

I wasn't happy with these blocks so this week completely remade them.These are version 2.

So many half square triangles. That was it for another week & i'm still so far behind.

During the week i started this stitchery

A new Christmas one by Natalie Bird.

During the evenings i've been working on Mischief. I end up with aching fingers due to my osteo & whilst sewing row 1 & 2 together i tried flat back stitching. It is a little slow going but my fingers don't ache like they do if i whip stitch pieces together.

Row 3 nearly done. I am getting faster at the flat back. :).

Wednesday i managed time at my machine but because i remade the pinwheel blocks only 1 set of blocks was caught up on.

Still 2 sets of blocks to make & the bow week was to be started this week. I'm hoping to catch up on Monday.

Yesterday afternoon i prepped 47 coffins for my quilt.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night with Friends July

I started early with FNwF. It was a very cold rainy day so by lunchtime i gave up trying to do anything, sat down in front of the TV, turned Netflix on & started prepping more coffins. I was cutting doubles to share on a FB group i'm in but so far only one lady has said she'd take any.

After that i decided it was time to get stuck back into Mischief. I needed to add 3 or 4 purple rosettes to the 2nd row along with the black & the white pieces. Then onto stitching the rows together.

As i was taking this photo i noticed i missed adding a white piece to the end of row 2. lol.

Pop over to our lovely hostess Cheryll to find the links for who all joined in FNwF & what they got up to.

Happy Stitching,

A finish.....

.........just in the nick of time.

Happy stitching,

My crafty week

I fussy cut the centres for my red hexagons

They were finished earlier this week & appliqued to their backgrounds (didn't take photo of that either) but i just haven't had a chance to get to the machine to put together the hanging.

I've been adding a few more coffins to my quilt but haven't taken a photo. Wednesday i prepped 113 coffins

74 here &

39 here.

I've  mostly been working on Ice Cream Soda this week though. Finished the last 2 blocks last night for month 5

Happy stitching,

Sewing Snippets

I finished my last stitchery the day the 7/8th hexie templates arrived. I'd just started the border when the postie artived.

Then off to choose fabrics for the hexies.

This doesn't show that they are a deep red. I still have to make the centres of the four flowers.

 Last night was prep night for month 5 of Ice Cream Soda.

Happy Stitching,