Cooking & crafting

My Bush Lemons ripened a little early & for some reason they didn't grow much larger than golf balls. This seasons crop should've been a good one too but i also lost a few to winds.  So i made lemon butter today with what lemons have ripened & this is the result.

Yesterday i binge watched Lost In Space on Netflix & April blocks of Send My Love by Gail Pan are done.

Round We Go bom

I've just finished the blocks for month nine. As with 7 & 8 months only 3 fabrics are supplied so i'm guessing we are supposed to use leftover fabrics from the first 6 months. As i was putting it together i decided 4 fabrics wasn't enough so found a purple Halloween fabric from my stash to include.

Happy Stitching,

Scraps

I have a quilt to bind & decided i'd make a scrappy binding based on the fabrics in the quilt as all the fabrics in the quilt came from my scrap bag. This is how they were stored.

I usually just tip it all out & sort through to find what i want. I had been using this bag because without a sewing room i don't have the room for lots of containers. Today i decided i'd find room somewhere, somehow & went off to the cheapie shop. 6 baskets & a couple hours later & this is the end result.

No more tipping the scraps out & then having to stick them back into the bag.

Happy stitching,

FNwF April

Last night i joined in Friday Night With Friends hosted by our very lovely Cheryll.

I've been working on a Christmas stitchery which is made up of 3 panels. This is panel number 2.

Pattern is from Fig 'n' Berry.

Pop over to Cheryll's blog to find the links to who joined in last night & what project they worked on.
Thankyou Cheryll for hosting us again.

Happy Stitching,

Snow Hearts

I've been sewing the snow hearts along with Shez & Karen but started a little late & then i seemed to stay behind. I decided when i started that i would make mine into a hanging  rather than individual hearts. Well that idea hit a snag when i prepped March's block over Easter. The heart shape is a little larger then the others. I'll have to ponder on what to do when i've got all 12 hearts made up. Any way i stitched both March & April up last night.

March is on the left & you can see i had to cut the block larger on the length.

Happy Stitching,

Stitch along blocks.

I really dragged my feet in March & didn't get the blocks traced out for the stitch along with Gail Pan. Fast forward & end of March arrived & only 15 day until April blocks will be out. So i set to over Easter & got them done.

Last night i finished off my April blocks for the stitch along Ruth's Dream quilt.

Now to get the snowman blocks for March & April sewn. They are prepped ready to go. :)

Happy Stitching,

Christmas stitchery

I just managed to scrape in my little finish for this month's OPAM.

Happy Stitching,

My Sewing month

 I worked on a few projects this month. My Halloween Round We Go

This Christmas Stitchery by Fig 'n' Berry

Snowman hearts were stitched

I need to get March & April's ready since it is April tomorrow.

My stitcheries for Ruth's Dream quilt

 I'd started this stitchery a while back but had run out of the white thread. Even after i stocked up i'd left it sit until this week.

Pattern by Rosalie Dekker.

Happy Stitching,

Displaying my pins.

When i started collecting my pins i hadn't a clue as to how i wanted to display them. Then i thought of a hanging i want to make but haven't had the chance to get it done. What to do as my collection was building up & getting to big for the box they were stored in. I figured this hanging a friend made me would do for now.

They are all attached here now except for 1 from the 5 pack. I think my daughter wants the cactus one. :) I originally was only going to display quilting related ones but all my pins are on there as theyreflect different aspects of my life. Well except maybe the knitting ones as i don't knit anymore. I just loved the rainbow socks & of course the other knitting pin was done in purple by Jodie just for us purple lovers. :) Oh yes & the cuckoo clocks, i bought them just because. lol. There is a mushroom one on display which i didn't buy it was a thankyou gift from Jodie.

This image is from the computer of the hanging i want to make for the pins to be displayed on.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI March

Yesterday was FNSI & i scraped a little sewing in.

I turned the stitchery into a needlecase to send off as a present.

Some new pins arrived yesterday to add to my collection.

I bought this one just because it is purple. :) :).

I wanted the teariffic badge in this set but it wasn't being sold separately but figured i'd love the 3 mystery pins anyway & i do. Yes i know there is 5 but i also knew the Stay Weird badge was being included so it was the other 3 that were the mystery pins.

So stay weird everyone.:) :)

Pop over to visit our lovely hostess Wendy to see what projects were worked on by those that joined in FNSI.

Happy Stitching,

Friday Night with Friends March.

My FNwF started early in the day. I prepped a Christmas hanging from Fig N Berry

My iron on transfer skills are a bit of a fail but i can see it to stitch. 😊. Short intermission here for an orthodontist visit & i popped into my LQS to grab some Cottage Garden Thread for this stitchery.

Back home & next to be prepped were some snowmen. I'd started this lovely 12 month BOM from Bunny Hill Designs when it was put out years ago. I made the 1st 2 into hangings & that was that. I'm glad i still had the patterns saved as my friend Shez had started them & i thought i'd sew along with her. I'm a bit behind. 😊😊.

January & February ready to stitch down. March has to wait as the computer had a hissy fit. Waiting on parts to do a partial rebuild.

Next up was some more tags for Ruth's Dream quilt.

Then i need to make a swap gift so i traced out  "D" from Michelle's lovely alphabet pattern

And then stitched it up last night.

Pop over to our lovely hostess Cheryl, link on right side bar, to see who joined in last night & what projects they worked on.

Happy Stitching